to the polls this year the people of La Plata and the people of Buenos Aires, at least, will have two elections/file
The 40th anniversary of the return of Democracy will coincide with a year in which citizens will elect a president, national and provincial legislators, the head of the Buenos Aires Government and 21 governors, in a raid that has at least 10 electoral Sundays that will be distributed throughout over the next few months.
The split decided by some districts, either because they have an express indication in their constitutions to carry out their elections in a differentiated way from the national one or political convenience, makes the schedule present different electoral days, for which the inhabitants of some provinces will have to go to the polls up to five times a year.
The latter will be the case of La Pampa, which will have Internal, Open, Mandatory and Simultaneous (IAOS) on February 12, which are mandatory for political parties but not for citizens and in the absence of a certificate they compete directly in the general elections. provincial meetings that will take place on May 14.
In that province, as in the rest of the country, they will hold the national PASO on August 13, the national generals on October 22, and -if necessary- the second national round in mid-November, with which they will go to the polls. the pampeanos five times.
The same will live, with different dates, Mendoza and Entre Ríos.
But to take a dimension of the magnitude of the process, it can be noted that the “reduced” version of the official national schedule that is currently in force has more than 40 milestones scheduled for 2023.
Always in what corresponds to the Nation, the electoral actions will take place from April and will extend -in case a second presidential round is necessary- until mid-November.
To this extensive calendar can be added the other, no less brief, that has its origin in the provinces, which includes the limits for the registration of lists and candidates, primary and internal elections, and also general ones for local authorities.
at the national level
The first notable act will be on April 25 with the closure of the provisional register, while in mid-May the deadline for the call to the PASO will expire.
June 24 will be a central date: that day closes the deadline for the presentation of lists of pre-candidates for the PASO and, at the same time, the formal beginning of the electoral campaign of the primaries.
As of July, the spots will begin to be seen in the different audiovisual media and on August 11 the ban will begin for the national Primaries that will take place on Sunday, the 13th of that month.
On September 2, the second stage will begin, with the start of the proselytizing period for the general elections, and on the 17th the audiovisual announcements will resume.
October will culminate on the 22nd with the election that may -or may not- determine who will be the president of the next period, but before that it will have two “mandatory” debates between the candidates, whose dates are scheduled for the 2nd and 15th of that month.
The current electoral system determines that, in order not to have a second round, the candidate with the most votes must obtain at least 45% of the affirmative votes (white votes do not count) or more than 40% with a difference of ten percentage points with the second most voted candidate.
In case none of these scenarios occur, the Argentines will determine the next head of state in an election that will take place on November 19, 3 weeks before the inauguration on December 10.
The other chapter is the one that corresponds to the provinces since the districts have their own schedule, regardless of whether they split the electoral date.
According to a provisional survey carried out by authorities in the matter and published in mid-December, the districts could be divided between those that plan to hold their elections in coordination with the Nation (five provinces), those that have already published the split (five), those that announced that they will unfold but have not yet ratified it (four), those with an estimated date (two), and the remaining eight that have not yet taken a position.
Among those who will vote with the Nation are, for now, Buenos Aires, the Autonomous City, Catamarca, Chubut and La Rioja.
June 24 will close the period for the presentation of pre-candidates for the PASO
