The Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, signed today the decree that calls for primary, open, simultaneous and mandatory elections (PASO) in the province for Sunday, August 13, simultaneously with the national elections.
“According to the current Law, and in accordance with the times and forms established in the electoral procedure of the Province, this call is only for the PASO, which will be carried out simultaneously with the national election,” the government reported this morning. bonaerense.
This is decree 567/2023 published today in the Official Gazette of the province, which bears the signatures of the governor, the Buenos Aires chief of staff, Martín Isaurralde, and the minister of government, María Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez.
In this way, on Sunday, August 13, the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, 23 titular provincial senators and sixteen substitutes, 46 titular provincial deputies and 28 substitutes, 135 mayors, 1,097 titular councilors and 706 substitutes, will be elected in the Buenos Aires territory.
Public positions will be distributed according to the following detail: Capital Section 3 titular senators and 3 substitutes, 15 titular deputies and 8 substitute; Second Section 5 titular senators and 3 substitutes; Third Section 9 titular senators and 6 substitutes; Fourth Section: 14 titular deputies and 8 substitutes; Fifth Section 11 titular deputies and 8 substitutes; Sixth Section 6 titular senators and 4 substitutes; Seventh Section 6 titular deputies and 4 substitutes.
The provincial government recalled that the primary elections and the general elections “are two independent electoral acts” and therefore “the deadlines for carrying out the respective calls arise from different laws.”
In this sense, in the case of general elections, they indicated that article 114 of Electoral Law 5109 establishes that “the call must be made no less than 90 days in advance.”
