After the surprise that the elections April in Neuquén, the first port of call for the presidential elections, the provinces of Jujuy, La Rioja and Misiones they go to the polls this Sunday to elect their new governors and generate expectation in the national forces that are in the race for the PASO of August.
In Neuquén, the historic Neuquino Popular Movement (MPN) that ruled for 60 years suffered a defeat that gave the first surprise of the electoral year. Now, the radicalism of Gerardo Morales seeks to retain Jujuy for Together for Change, the Peronist Ricardo Quintela He is going for his re-election in La Rioja and the Concord Renewal Front tries to revalidate his power in Misiones.
The greatest attention is paid to Jujuy, as it is the province that governs one of the national benchmarks and presidential candidate of Together for Change, and in La Rioja, where the opposition alliance and an ally of the libertarian Javier Miley one of the governors that makes up the Frente de Todos competes to win the province.
Elections in Jujuy: Morales’ list, divided Peronism and the emboldened Left
Without re-election and embarked on the race and the national electoral assembly of Together for Change, Morales supports Carlos Sadir’s candidacy for governorthe finance minister of the province who is accompanied in the formula by Alberto Bernis, the president of the provincial committee of the UCR.
In the attempt to guarantee the victory of his candidate and at the same time ensure a base of support for the national opposition coalition in Jujuy, the governor will be on the ballot as a candidate for the constituent convention in view of the constitutional reform that he is promoting in the province.
Meanwhile, the Peronism competes divided into three lists. The closest to the national ruling party is the Justicialista Front, which has as its candidate for governor the head of the provincial PJ, Ruben Rivarolaaccompanied by the deputy Carolina Moisés, in a space that includes leaders of the massimo and La Cámpora.
La Rioja, Jujuy and Misiones are the second appointment of the electoral calendar after the elections of Neuquén and Río Negro
The other Peronist list is headed by Rodolfo Tecchi, former rector of the National University of Jujuy who shares the formula of Jujuy Has a Future with Magda Choque Vilca. The third is Unity for Jujuy, which leads to Juan Cardozo Traillou and Diego Granda as vice. The space is led by national senator Guillermo Snopek, one of those who opened the Frente de Todos block after a malaise of several years due to lack of support in his province.
In Jujuy there is expectation for the performance of the Left Front after the bump it gave in the 2021 legislatures, when he obtained 25% of the votes and fought for second place against the Frente de Todos. Deputy Alexander Vilca he will head the list again, this time as a gubernatorial candidate.
Meanwhile, the VIA Libertarios Front proposes as a candidate for Cecilia Garciaalthough Milei withdrew from the electoral assembly of Jujuy and the only support that came was that of the Buenos Aires legislator Ramiro Marra.
In La Rioja the Frente de Todos seeks a first victory against JxC and the Menem-Milei alliance
Quintela seeks his re-election as governor of La Rioja and accompanied by the provincial deputy Teresita Madera as vice. The official formula wants to retain the province for Peronism and give the first victory of the year to the Front of All.
Meanwhile, Together for Change presents as a candidate the national deputy Philip Alvarez, a leader who comes from Peronism but is far from its structure both locally and nationally, where he is referenced in the presidential candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. Álvarez has the radical Guillermo Galván as his running mate.
In the race to seize the government from Peronism, the list of La Libertad Avanza also runs, which leads the provincial deputy as a candidate Martin Menemnephew of former President Carlos Menem and one of Milei’s few strong allies on the inside of the country, where it lacks a powerful electoral system. Her running mate is Carolina Moreno.
In the three provinces, the ruling parties put their hegemony at stake, although only one governor is up for re-election
The fight between Álvarez and Menem generated expectation in the days before the elections, where the Left Front also competes with the formula that they make up Carolina Goycochea and Domingo Vedia; the Fuerza Liberal list headed by Christian Corzo and Edgardo Escobar and the La Rioja Front that leads to mario olmedo and José Nicolás Cosseddu.
Misiones: the local government puts its power to the test and the libertarians open up
He Concord Renovation Front tries to defend the hegemony that it has maintained in Misiones since 2003, when former governor Carlos Rovira created the space. From the leadership position that he still occupies, Rovira supports the candidacy of Hugo Passalacquawho already governed the province between 2015 and 2019 accompanied in the formula by the provincial deputy Lucas Romero.
The current governor, Oscar Herrera Ahuad, will head the list of provincial deputies And with this arming, the space that moves independently of the national forces but maintains a tactical alliance with Kirchnerism -mainly in Congress- will try to go for another four years in office.
Together for Change challenges the power of the local ruling party with the national deputy of the UCR Martin Arjol as candidate for governor and the leader Natalia Dörper as vic, while the Frente de Todos is divided on two lists: the Broad Front, which has as a candidate the former national deputy Julia Perieand La Fuerza de Todos, led by Isaac Languagereferent of the Agrarian and Social Party.
Meanwhile, the Partido Obrero presents Virginia Villanueva as a candidate for governor and Milei’s supporters will be represented by the Integration and Militancy list headed by Ninfa Alvarenga, although with a particularity: they tried to get off by order of the libertarian’s own campaign manager, Carlos Kikuchi, but the Electoral Tribunal rejected the resignation. They did not campaign.
