The mayor of Olavarria, Ezekiel Galli, runs the serious risk of losing control of the district after eight years of government. It is that although the internship of Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) won the ritondista Dalton Jaureguithe sum of their forces were 3.5% below the Union for the Fatherland (UP), which hopes to continue growing and wrest from the opposition that key district of the Seventh electoral section.
the peronist Maximilian Wesner he received the support of 17,345 voters while Galli scratched the support of 12,674 people. Regarding political forces, UP reached 38.19% of the votes, followed by JxC (35%) and La Libertad Avanza de Javier Miley (23%).
Galli’s defeat takes notoriety beyond the district. Fundamentally because it is the head of the section, with more than 120,000 inhabitants, followed at a distance by Azul, which has some 75,000 citizens, which in each election becomes decisive in defining the new conformation of the Buenos Aires Legislature. In fact, these two territories, together with Bolívar, General Alvear, Roque Pérez, Saladillo, Tapalqué and 25 de Mayo, are the ones that will provide three seats in the next Buenos Aires Senate.
In that fight Galli didn’t do well either. He lost the sectional fight for the legislative places in dispute and will only have the possibility of one of his representatives entering. Alejandra Lordenextremely trusted radical leader of Maximilian Abbot will lead the ballot for October; Martin Enderecouncilor who answers to Galli, will go second, and María Cristina To whompart of the armed Patricia Bullrichwill go third.
In addition, there were many expectations about the result that the mayor would obtain, especially after the financing and explicit support that he gave him. Horacio Rodriguez Larreta y Diego Santilliwho also put him in a management window with a lot of visibility and gave him the role of shipowner with which he could not fulfill either.
Finally, the eight years of management crossed by denunciations of corruption -with illegal sale of land, resignations of officials from the Social Development area due to the use of social beneficiary cards and a housing plan that failed-, added to the strong internal Jáuregui, were decisive not only for his defeat in the primaries but also for Peronism to once again have hopes of retaking power.
