This Sunday elections are held in the provinces of Missions, La Rioja and Jujuy. In all three, governor and vice are elected, in addition to other positions.
It will be a mega electoral day in which provincial positions are played but it will also allow to continue outlining the Argentine political map, a few months after the first national contest: in August it will be PASO.
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In Misiones there are 989,148 voters authorized to vote in the 457 locations arranged throughout the territory. In La Rioja there are 302,872 voters authorized to vote in 274 electoral locations, and in Jujuy 586,870 people will cast their vote in 296 locations.
In this last case, there is a color fact that was revealed this Saturday by the Argentine Mail, in charge of distributing the ballot boxes. Already at dawn some of them they went out on the back of a mule from Tilcara to the places of Abra Mayo, Molulo, El Durazno, Yala Monte Carmelo, San Lucas, Alto Calilegua and Yaquispampa after a long journey of 12 hours through the mountains.
Jujuy
The province of Jujuy elects its next governor and, with the current president Gerardo Morales Without re-election, the ruling party will be represented by its Finance Minister, Carlos Sadir, together with Alberto Bernis. A victory for Cambia Jujuy will serve Morales to boost his presidential candidacy within Together for Change.
In addition, it will count as the first victory of the opposition front in the count of provinces that have doubled their national dates. This Sunday, Peronism is represented with the Justicialista Front label and competes with the Rubén Rivarola-Carolina Moisés duo.
In addition to governor and vice, in Jujuy they are elected 24 provincial deputies and 10 substitutes and 48 conventional constituents and 10 substituteswhich will partially reform the Magna Carta of the province.
They will also consecrate 27 mayors and municipal authorities from the departments of Manuel Belgrano, Ledesma, San Pedro, Palpalá, El Carmen, San Antonio, Humahuaca, Tilcara, Tumbaya, Valle Grande, Santa Bárbara, Cochinoca, Yavi, Santa Catalina, Rinconada and Susques. .
The other five alternatives that the Governor will seek are those headed by Alejandro Vilca (FIT); Rodolfo Tecchi (Jujuy Has a Future), Juan Cardozo (Unity for Jujuy), Iñaki Aldaroso (Worker Policy) and Cecilia García Casasco (VÍA + Libertarios).
Missions
The citizens of the province of Misiones elect governor and vice president, in addition to legislators and municipal authorities, and the Frente Renovador de la Concordia appears as the favorite to retain power, again betting on the candidacy of Hugo Passalacqua, who was already provincial president between 2015 and 2019.
The former governor is accompanied in the formula by his current peer in the Chamber of Deputies of Misiones Lucas Romero Spinelli.
The provincial ruling party bets everything on the list of deputies, which will be headed by the current president, Oscar Herrera Ahuad, followed by the current legislator Anazul Centeno, and by Carlos Rovira, current president of the Chamber of Deputies and political leader of the Renewal.
In the opposition, the Cambiemos alliance appears as the main competitor, which leads to the pairing made up of the radical Martín Alfredo Arjol and the macrista Natalia Gabriela Dorper for governor and vice.
For the Chamber of Deputies, Pedro Ramón Puerta, son of Ramón Puerta, heads the list.
Representing the Frente de Todos are the lawyer Isaac Lenguaza, from the Agrarian and Social party, as a candidate for governor, and the Kirchnerist deputy Santiago Mansilla, as his running mate.
On the list of provincial deputies, the first candidate is Cristian Gabriel Castro, followed by the executive director of Pami in Misiones, Marcela Irene Crechuska, and Víctor Alfredo Rosenfeld, president of the Labor and People’s Party.
The Broad Front has as its candidate for governor the ultra-Christian Julia Perié, accompanied by the candidate for vice-president Aurelio Torrez.
The Integration and Militancy party, which in principle was going to take the businessman Abel Motte as a candidate for governor, finally shelters the candidates of Javier Milei’s party: the candidate for governor will be Ninfa Alvarenga, accompanied in the formula by Julio César Peralta .
The Partido Obrero, for its part, has Lorenza Virginia Villanueva as a candidate for governor, while Eduardo Demetrio Cantero completes the pairing. Finally, the Democratic Party has Jorge Pelinski and Marilene Esmeralda as candidates for governor and vice president.
In addition to electing governor and vice president, Misiones will put at stake the positions of mayors and councilors of the 78 municipalities, 20 titular provincial deputies and seven substitute provincial deputies.
The Rioja
The province of La Rioja goes to the polls to elect governor and vice president, among other positions, in a day in which Governor Ricardo Quintela seeks re-election for the Frente de Todos.
The president of the Andean province is accompanied in the formula by the provincial deputy Teresita Madera, while in front he will find the pair of Together for Change made up of the national deputy Felipe Álvarez and the deputy mayor of the Rioja capital, Guillermo Galván, as candidates to governor and vice, respectively.
La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei’s political party, has Martín Menem -nephew of the late former president Carlos Menem- as its candidate for governor and Carolina Moreno as vice president.
Meanwhile, there is another space of the liberal right in competition with the Alianza Fuerza Liberal label that has as candidates Cristián Corzo and Edgardo Escobar for governor and vice.
The grid is completed with the formula of the Left Front, headed by Carolina Goycochea and seconded by Domingo Vedia, and finally the La Rioja Front, with Mario Olmedo and José Dum as candidates for governor and vice, respectively.
This Sunday the people of La Rioja also vote for 36 conventional constituents to carry out the reform of their provincial Constitution.
An important focus of attention will be on what happens in the vote for mayor of the provincial capital, which is currently in the hands of the Radical Civic Union. Radicalism seeks to retain control of the mayor’s office with the candidacy for re-election of Inés Brizuela y Doria, who is accompanied by its current secretary general, Nahuel Pérez Schoeters.
Meanwhile, Peronism will try to wrest the La Rioja capital from the centennial party with the candidacy of Armando Molina, Secretary of the Interior, who is accompanied on the ballot by Mónica Díaz D’Albano, as vice candidate.
