The former president also assured that unfolding the elections implies more state spending, more voting time and more ballot boxes and ballots
By iProfessional
09/04/2023 – 12,05hs
The ex-president Mauricio Macri sent a message to the Buenos Aires head of government, Horacio Rodriguez Larretawho is in the hours of definition regarding the electoral schedule in the City of Buenos Aires and questioned a potential unfolding of the elections.
“I don’t think Horacio will double the elections in the City. It would be going against the neighbors because it is more state spending, more voting time, more lines, two ballot boxes, two ballots,” Macri said in a dialogue with Radio Rivadavia.
Along the same lines, he added: “It has never been done before in the City. The electoral rules must not be changed in the same year and they must not be done due to speculation on one side thinking that something is going to change to complicate people’s lives “.
“My dear porteños are autonomous and independent. They do not turn their vote towards a space just to change the day of the election. Unfolding is complicating their lives,” she completed.
Larreta’s idea
Rodríguez Larreta evaluates not to split, but to vote with separate lists, that is, all the same day, but separately. the radical Martin Lousteau press for this modality, so as not to compete at a disadvantage against Jorge Macri, the candidate supported by the former president. What are concurrent elections? On August 13, the people of Buenos Aires must elect in the PASO, on the one hand, president and national deputies; on the other, they will have to vote for mayor. In the first case, it will be with a sheet ticket and, in the second, with a single or electronic ticket.
Macri said that at the request of the head of government he met with Lousteau to talk about this issue and that he told him that it is okay to look for mechanisms to compete but without affecting citizens.
Macri lowered his thumb to unfold the elections in the City: “It would be against what we have worked for all these years”
“We have a challenge that is not to complicate people’s lives and not change rules believing that in this way the Buenos Aires vote will be manipulated in something,” he emphasized, while insisting that there is no need to change the electoral rules to seek political speculation and also “complicating people’s lives”.
“It was never done before in the City. I believe that if politics thinks that by changing electoral rules the Buenos Aires will choose in a certain way, it is not knowing the Buenos Aires,” he said.
