2023-10-22 22:48:19
At 6 p.m., with absolute normality and without the delays that were seen in the Paso of August, the elections in the City of Buenos Aires closed, where more than two and a half million Buenos Aires residents were authorized to vote for their head and vice head of Government, as well as local legislators and community members.
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On this occasion, unlike the Paso primaries, there were no delays with the unified voting system with paper voting, since the justice system eliminated the electronic method that had shown countless flaws.
Fernando de Andreis: We are very happy with the result
“We have been transforming the City for 16 years and we have great expectations of continuing to do so,” said this Sunday Federico De Andreis, Jorge Macri’s campaign manager and Mauricio Macri’s trusted man; from the Together for Change bunker in Parque Norte.
And he continued: “We are very happy with the result, very grateful to the people of Buenos Aires. But they know that until 9:30 p.m. we cannot give data.” Furthermore, he said that the results of their witness tables “put them in a very good place.”
Elections in Caba: who are the candidates
The four candidates for head of the Buenos Aires Government from the different political forces cast their votes in the morning, in a day that presents as one of the main unknowns whether the elections will be defined in the first round or there will be a runoff.
According to sources from the participating parties, the percentage of participation among Buenos Aires residents “was similar to the national average,” which was at least 74 percent.
The candidate of Together for Change (JxC), Jorge Macri, voted at 9:30 at the Lenguas Vivas School on 3,200 Juncal Street, where he stated, when asked about whether there will be a second round in the City, that “the important thing is “Let us continue governing the City if the people want it that way.”
Meanwhile, the candidate of Unión por la Patria (UxP), Leandro Santoro, voted after 10:40 at the Special Education School No. 9 Dr. Luis R Mc Kay in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Boedo, where he highlighted that “40 years ago we recovered democracy ” and in this sense he considered “it is important to vindicate the democratic pact because for many years we Argentines could not vote.”
The candidate of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Ramiro Marra, stated that he was “very calm” and considered that those who “did not sleep are the ones who are worried because their work is ending,” when speaking with the press after casting his vote in the Santa María de los Ángeles Buenos Aires school, located at 3978 Manuela Pedraza Street.
The candidate of the Workers’ Left Front, Vanina Biasi, expressed after voting this morning at School 20 “Eloy Fernández Alonso” that “today the Left can be a factor of regrouping for those who, in this scenario of economic and social crisis, cannot “they find proposals in defense of their interests.”
Elections in Caba: how many people authorized to vote are there
Election day began at 8 a.m. and some 2,533,092 residents were eligible to vote, of which some 1,214,871 were men, 1,318,002 were women, and 219 were non-binary people.
The elections were held at 7,326 tables, distributed in 1,099 establishments.
Unlike the primary elections, and after the controversy unleashed by the failures recorded by the use of the Single Electronic Ballot (BUE) in the PASO, the Buenos Aires elections were carried out with two paper ballots: one for national positions and the other for local authorities, which are placed in the same envelope within a single ballot box.
On that occasion, the electronic system caused delays of more than an hour in the closing of voting in the City in the PASO elections, when citizens had to wait up to two hours to vote.
In this context, the federal judge with electoral jurisdiction in this capital María Servini had stated at that time that the elections of October 22 “cannot be held under the same conditions” as the PASO, since it would be “a mockery to the citizens to repeat it.” subject to degrading conditions”, and assured that the primaries in CABA were “the most problematic and conflictive elections of the last 30 years” in the district.
The people of Buenos Aires also chose who will occupy the 30 seats that are being renewed in the Buenos Aires Legislature and 105 places within the 15 communes.
In addition, a vote was taken for president and vice president to define who will be the successors of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The presidential formulas were headed by Sergio Massa (Unión por la Patria), Javier Milei (La Libertad Avanza), Patricia Bullrich (Together for Change), Myriam Bregman (Left Front and Workers-Unity, FIT-U) and Juan Schiaretti (We do for Our Country, (HpNP).
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