The head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), and pre-candidate for president of Together for Change (JxC), Horacio Rodríguez larretaconfirmed the decision to “split the elections in his district” and hold them on the same day, “but in ballot boxes and with a different voting system”.
As explained by himself larreta in a recorded message, “it will be a concurrent split”, which means that the votes will be voted on the same day as the national elections, “but with separate ballots”, and the single electronic ticket for the Buenos Aires categories is added. “As head of Government, it is my responsibility to decide when and how to vote in the City”, he remarked.
Criticism of the decision larreta they began to arrive almost immediately, and the majority from inside the PRO. Former President Mauricio Macri used his social networks to affirm his “deep disappointment”, considering that the determination “could favor the electoral chances of radicalism”which he will lead as a candidate in the CABAto Martín Lousteau, and will not have a presidential candidate who can generate “drag to his candidacy.”
The former governor of the province of Buenos Aires, María Eugenia Vidal, also expressed herself against the determination to separate the elections in the City from the national ones. The current national deputy said that “The PRO and the JvC that we promised to the Argentines, is not this”, and affirmed that “there is no personal ambition that can be above our values and the team”. “We are the change or we are nothing”, Vidal expressed.
Patricia Bullrich, pre-candidate for president of JxC within the PRO, said that the Buenos Aires president “manipulated the electoral rules in the city of Buenos Aires, four months before the elections”. “It’s very simple,” Bullrich said, “changing the rules is wrong, it’s cheating.” He also assured that “this decision is wasteful, which will not happen with me.”
Concurrent Elections
Larreta’s decision provides that the national positions will be elected with the traditional paper ballot and the representatives of the City, with a single electronic ballot, and will be entered in separate ballot boxes. Both elections will be held on the same day, which is why they are called concurrent.. It is not the first time that the CABA unfolds elections, although “a scheme had never been created so that this unfolding could be carried out in the same day.
