The way to elections presidential elections begin this Sunday in the province of The Pampawhere the primaries that will define the candidate for governor of Together for Change in a tussle between the PRO and the UCR, that Peronism led by the governor, Sergio Ziliottowatch carefully to measure their strength in the face of the May generals.
In La Pampa, the primaries are open and mandatory only for political spaces that present more than one list, but the vote is voluntary. Of the six political spaces that will fight for the Governorship on May 14, Together for Change was the only one that did not close a list of unity and will have a real electoral definition this Sunday.
However, the Pampeano Justicialista Front, a local expression of the Frente de Todos that promotes the re-election of Ziliotto and has a single list for the generals, will closely follow the competition that the radical faces Martin Berhongaray and the referent of the PRO Martin Maquieyra.
And it is that the performance of the opposition alliance will give a first glimpse of what Peronism will have to face in May to retain the province that has governed since the return of democracy. The pampas officialism will have internal in some interior districts to define their candidates for mayor, where only affiliates can vote.
Primary elections in La Pampa: a key struggle for Together for Change
maquieyranational deputy of the PRO, has former provincial legislator Josefina Díaz as his running mate and is a bishop of the Buenos Aires head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, so the result he obtains in the primary may have an impact on the national internal of the PRO.
Although both former President Mauricio Macri and the party’s head, Patricia Bullrich – an internal rival of Rodríguez Larreta – visited the province during the campaign, Maquieyra is mainly a bet of the mayor of Buenos Aires on his way to the national arm wrestling.
The La Pampa primaries will inaugurate the electoral calendar with a high-flying primary in Together for Change
berhongaray, who is also a national deputy, is accompanied on the list by former provincial legislator Patricia Testa. He has the support of the entire UCRwhich tries to assert before the PRO its condition of space that leads the opposition in La Pampa since 1983with a structure that the yellow party still does not have.
After Larreta’s impulse to Maquieyra will lead to Senator Daniel Kroneberger – who won the election of senators from Peronism in 2021 – to get out of the fight in order to achieve a unity list to face PRO, radicalism lined up behind his candidacy as shown by the president of the National Committee, Gerardo Morales, and especially Senator Martín Lousteau.
The gubernatorial candidate is a man of Radical Evolution, the space that Lousteau leads. For this reason, the senator who aspires to be head of the Buenos Aires government but also to influence the national assembly of Together for Change is betting on scoring a point in this election.
The capital, an internal apart
Together for Change has another weighty dispute in the Santa Rosa Departmentcapital of the province where the UCR hopes to surpass Macri’s chosen one.
There, radicalism postulates the provincial deputy for the mayor Francisco Torrobawho already governed the district between 2008 and 2011.
The radical credit will face the provincial deputy Martin Ardohain, cousin of the model and host Carolina “Pampita” Ardohain. Days ago, Macri traveled to La Pampa to support Maquieyra but, mainly, to give impetus to the postulant from the capital.
Sergio Ziliotto closed a unit list to go in search of re-election
The competition is completed with the former director of Tourism Federico Roitmanwhich is presented by the Podemos+ list.
All the candidates who fight the Governorship
Before calling the first primary elections of the year and defining the split with respect to the national elections, in line with another twenty provinces, Ziliotto already had resolved the internal of Peronism.
He Pampean Justicialista Front (FreJuPa) will take to the general elections a single list that has the governor as a candidate for re-election, accompanied by the current provincial deputy, Alicia Mayoral.
Meanwhile, the Left Front and Workers-Unity It will also carry a single list that postulates the leader of ATE Luciano Gonzalez as governor, accompanied by Sofia Mercedes Fernandez.
On the other hand, the Pampas Federalist Movement the former provincial deputy postulates Hector Fazziniwho will be accompanied by Sonia Analía Wisner as vice candidate, while the former mayor of Santa Rosa Juan Carlos Tierno He is competing for the Governorship together with Viviana Winschel after being removed from that position in 2008 on charges of abuse of authority.
The provincial party Desde el Pie has as a candidate for governor Claudio Acostaaccompanied by María Laura González in the formula.
