The Pampa, Salta and Tierra del Fuego They elect this Sunday a new governor and vice president, in a schedule in which San Juan and Tucumán were also expected to do so, but which was modified with the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation to suspend the voting for those categories in those districts five days before the scheduled date.
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For that reason, San Juan will comply only with the electoral act for positions of provincial deputies, mayors and councilors, while the governor of Tucumán, Juan Manzur, declined his candidacy for lieutenant governor -which was objected to before the Court by an opposition force- and announced that next month they will be able to finally materialize the elections for all political positions that are renewed in the district.
With this Sunday’s elections, La Pampa, Salta and Tierra del Fuego will have elected authorities for the next four-year period, as happened last Sunday in Jujuy, Misiones and La Rioja and will continue in San Luis – just like Tucumán- in June, a month in which primaries are also scheduled to take place in Mendoza and legislative elections in Corrientes.
The Pampa
In La Pampa, managed by Sergio Ziliotto, some 300,000 citizens will define their authorities provincial executive and legislative offices, in addition to the executive and legislative offices of 61 localities and 19 promotion commissions in 889 tables throughout the province.
In the elections, 925 will be at stake between holders and substitutes, namely: governor and lieutenant governor; 40 for deputies; 61 for mayors, 519 for councillors, 18 for presidents of promotion commissions, 90 for members and 195 for judges and justices of the peace.
This time they will compete 17 political forcesbetween parties and fronts. There will be six who will do so for the positions of governor and lieutenant governor: Pampas Justicialista Front (502 List), Juntos por el Cambio-La Pampa Front (501 List), Left and Workers Front (503 List), Pampas Federalist Movement ( 7), Organized Community (List 94) and Desde El Pie (List 115).
Two other parties will join for the positions of provincial deputies, the Libertarian Party (List 124) and the Civic Organization (List 125).
Meanwhile, for local positions (municipalities, councils and promotion commissions) nine lists will be presented.
This will be the first time that in La Pampa, in a general election, provincial law 3259 will govern, which guarantees gender parity in candidacies for elective public office, both in the provincial and municipal order and in promotion commissions.
Also, for the first time, authorities will be elected for the Pichi Huinca Peace Court, which was created in 2021 and became the 65th peace court in the province.
Salta
Salta will vote for a new governor and lieutenant governor, in elections in which just over a million citizens You will be able to choose 11 senators, 30 provincial deputies, 60 mayors and 343 councilors among some 12,000 registered applicants for the certification.
sweet formulas They will compete to occupy the Salta Executive for the next four years in an election by Electronic Voting System, which allows the preparation of the complete list vote or by categories through screens and then the printing of a ballot that is deposited in the ballot box.
There will be 370 voting centers with 1,318 tables in the provincial capital and 1,980 in the interior of the district for the 194 lists that were presented throughout the province, with 12,207 candidates (12 formulas for governor and deputy governor; 83 lists with 154 candidates for provincial senators ; and 123 payrolls for 671 candidates for deputies).
An alliance, 10 provincial fronts, 34 political parties and 36 municipal groups will be part of the dispute.
The Gustavo Gobernador Alliance, made up of the pro-government fronts United for Salta, Vamos Salta and País, is nominating the current president, Gustavo Sáenz, for re-election, together with his vice president, Antonio Marocco.
The Kirchnerist front, Entre Todos, made up of the Igualar, Frente Grande, Patria Grande and various municipal groups, is running for former vice-governor and current senator Walter Wayar, accompanied on the ticket by the leader of Orán, Iván Mizzau.
Another faction of Kirchnerism is in the Salta para Todos front, made up of the People’s Work, Kolina, Nuevo Encuentro and Solidario parties, and has national deputy Verónica Caliva as a candidate for governor, along with Alejandro Gravanago.
The Avancemos front, made up of the parties Ahora Patria; If-Jump Independent; United Popular Movement; Victory; of Culture, Education and Work; and Salta Somos Todos, in addition to several municipal groups, proposes the national deputy of the Frente de Todos interblock Emiliano Estrada, for the Governorate, and his running mate is his peer from the Olmedista Ahora Patria block – a member of the Together for Change interblock (Jxc)-, Carlos Zapata.
In turn, the Juntos por el Cambio front, which is made up of the Radical Civic Union, the Plural Front and the PRO, and which, due to negotiations carried out at the national level, overcame its rupture after the presentation of alliances and advanced in an agreement, has the formula headed by the national deputy of the UCR, Miguel Nanni, who is accompanied by his partner from the PRO bench, Virginia Cornejo.
Land of Fire
Some 147,000 Fuegians are in a position to vote in the general elections of Tierra del Fuego to elect governor and vice president and thus fulfill the ninth institutional period in the history of the district, in which positions will also be renewed in 3 municipalities, 15 provincial deputy seats and 24 municipal councillors.
In Fuegian territory, the current governor Gustavo Melella -a radical K, leader of the Forge party and ally of President Alberto Fernández- will seek his re-election in office through an alliance with the mayor of Ushuaia, Walter Vuoto, the one from Río Grande, Martín Pérez (both belonging to the La Cámpora political group) and Daniel Harrington from Tolhuin (PJ).
Melella will compete with the current deputy Héctor Stefani, of the PRO, and with the radical senator Pablo Blanco who will present himself for Together for Change (JxC) within an opposition electoral offer that was fragmented for the elections and that also includes Republicans, the Javier Milei’s party, which nominates the evangelical pastor Andrea Altamirano as a candidate for governor, and Zulma Fernández of the Left Front.
For the election of legislative bodies, different electoral systems coexist: in the case of provincial legislators, applicants can be crossed out to alter the original list and in the case of Ushuaia councilors, candidates can be chosen with the same objective of modifying the original list. .
The definitive register is made up of 147,064 people, with 64,941 potential voters in the city of Ushuaia, 76,006 in Río Grande, 5,707 in Tolhuin and 410 in the different Antarctic bases.
For their part, there will be 56 educational establishments affected by the elections: 27 in Ushuaia, 26 in Río Grande and three in Tolhuin.
San Juan
In San Juan, meanwhile, no governor or vice president will be elected -by the resolution of the Supreme Court of the Nation- and only provincial deputies, 19 mayors and councilors will be voted, categories for which there are 6,347 candidates and three different election systems .
This is so because the elections for mayors will be governed by the Democratic Participation System (SIPAD), which is a copy of the Ley de Lemas and which was consecrated by the local government after it eliminated the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO ) in December 2021.
But the departmental deputies will be elected by a simple majority of votes and taking each department as a single district and the proportional deputies, and the councilors will be enshrined using the D’Hondt System, created by the Belgian jurist Victor d’Hondt in 1878.
The coexistence of the three systems will make the elections highly complex, both for voters who will find an enormous number of ballots in the dark room, with repetition of candidates and very few variations, and for the polling authorities at the time to make the provisional scrutiny.
To this we must add that the ballots will include the category of Governor and Vice, because there was no material time to print new votes and for this reason the Provincial Electoral Tribunal (TEP) ordered them to be valid, although obviously the votes of the formulas.
In total there will be 603,276 citizens empowered to vote at 1,795 tables distributed in 234 schools.
The system for the election of mayors avoids having internal elections within the parties to define their candidates and consequently, there will be two simultaneous elections, since the citizens will choose which group (motto) will win and then the candidate with the most votes will take office. within it, who will be the one who wins the internal one.
In this election the candidates are divided into 4 groups, which are the ruling party of San Juan por Todos, with 2 sub-groups; the opponents of Cambia San Juan (former Together for Change), who lead 4 sub-groups; the mileistas from Desarrollo y Libertad with 3 lists and the left that presents itself united with a single alternative, but not in all departments.
