2023-11-04 16:44:00
The presidential candidates of Unión por la Patria, Sergio Massaand from La Libertad Avanza, Javier Mileythey will face each other for the last time in the runoff on November 19. In order for them to finance their campaigns and the printing of new ballots, the national state will have to spend almost 800 million pesos.
The Ministry of the Interior will disburse, through the National Electoral Directorate (DINE), almost 400 million pesos for each political force. Candidates must allocate more than half of that amount to printing ballots, while the remainder can be used for their campaigns.
The pollster that got the results of the first round right gives Milei the winner over Massa in the runoff
How much will the State allocate to the Massa and Milei campaigns for the runoff?
As established by the DINE through Provision 16/2023, published this Friday in the Official Gazette, each alliance will receive the amount of $139,666,387.89which may be used to create spots, campaigns in the media and social networks, contracting surveys or any expense incurred in pursuit of your application.
However, the ruling party will get less because they will have to face two fines previously imposed on two forces of the bloc, for non-compliance with the political party financing law.
This is a sanction of $343,530.45 to the Frente Grande space and another of $83,383.33 that fell on Unidad Popular. This way, Union for the Homeland will have $139,239,474.11 of official DINE funds destined for his campaign for the second round.
How much will the State spend for the Massa and Milei tickets in the runoff
Regarding the state contribution for the printing of ballots, each candidate for the Casa Rosada will receive $258,379,302.50 from the DINE, an organization led by Marcos Schiavi. This is the same figure that the five presidential formulas that competed in the first round received.
This subsidy granted by the State for the candidates’ ballots seeks guarantee that the electoral offer is present in all the dark rooms of the 17 thousand voting establishments distributed throughout the country.
The ballots used for the general elections will be valid for the runoff.
It should be noted that this week the National Electoral Board of the Federal Capital ordered that the ballots for the general elections of October 22 may be used during the ballot. The decision aims prevent the vote from being invalidated of any citizen for going to the polls with ballots left over from previous elections.
Likewise, it also seeks to prevent damage to the popular will if someone replaces the new ballots in the dark room with the previous ones, being that The only difference will be the date of the elections..
How much did Milei and Massa spend on the general election campaign?
The National Electoral Chamber agreed to the preliminary delivery of information on public and private expenses and contributors used for political campaigns, which should have been Mandatory presented for each space running for the general elections.
According to the report, the campaign Javier Miley, was financed almost entirely with state money. Freedom Advances received $397,859,930 state pesoswhile it only raised other $56,997,721 pesos in donations. Therefore, of the 455 million pesos that the liberal space accumulated, one 87.5% was from the State.
Of that amount, LLA reported that $278,502,478 were for operating expenses campaign such as the preparation of ballots, while $192,297,757 were spent on . In total they spent $475,539,161, which represented a negative balance of 20 million pesos, exactly the same amount that was left over from the primaries, according to the Letra P portal.
Campaign expenses and contributions: how much private and public money each candidate used
For its part, Sergio Massa spent more than Milei in the first round and was the one that used the most State funds, with an amount of $722.510.882. However, it also raised more from private individuals, with a total of $204,196,500 in donationsand in total the campaign cost him $926.61.216. In this way, 78% was with public funds and 22% with private capital.
Union for the Homeland points out that they signed up $359,792,998 for operating expenses and printing of ballots and $548,320,943 in electoral .
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