2023-11-19 02:10:00
This Sunday Argentina defines its next president, in a close race runoff who will star Sergio Massa (Union for the Homeland) y Javier Milei (Freedom Advances). In this context, the National Electoral Directorate (DINE) reported at what time will the result be known of the election.
Marcos Schiavi, head of the DINE, confirmed that the first provisional data were They will meet at 9 p.m. on Sunday November 19th. At that time it is expected to have a trend “consolidated and representative” of the second round.
«The DINE, by regulations, cannot give the result before 9 p.m. So I estimate that at 9 p.m. we will be able to have a consolidated and representative result. At that time it is likely that we already know who is ahead«, the official anticipated on Wednesday, when asked by the press.
In that sense, he recalled that “in general, At 9:20 p.m. we had 75% of the telegrams loaded“and calculated that on this occasion, as there are only two candidates, “we are going to be equal to or better than that percentage.”
Schiavi also noted that «blank vote does not favor to neither of the two candidates. In a runoff, the one with the most positive votes wins, meaning that neither the white vote, nor the null vote nor the absenteeism favor anyone specifically,” he explained.
2023 ballot: rejection of accusations of “fraud”
The head of the DINE rejected the doubts raised by La Libertad Avanza regarding the scrutiny and the media accusations of “fraud.” Schiavi assured that “at the institutional level, at the level of coordination with the DINE and the courts, that does not happen. We have a cordial relationship with all the representatives of all the candidates.«.
He added that “no complaints of irregularities were received in the courts, there were no major complaints. AND“The level of oversight that the parties have is very high, especially in the count,” He highlighted, and announced that in the runoff there will be “around 10,000 prosecutors from each of the forces watching how that telegram is transmitted.”
«At the level of political-institutional articulation there are no such proposals. They are more social network proposals, with whom it is very difficult to dialogue because they are often unjustified and implausible. They have more to do with ignorance of the process,” he stated.
Regarding the intersections over the provision of ballots, the official highlighted that “those responsible for the ballots being in the dark room are the political parties, that is by regulations. What Justice did was what it always does, which is to provide collaboration to the parties to solve the initial logistics«, he concluded.
For her part, the federal judge with electoral jurisdiction in the City of Buenos Aires, María Servini, defended the integrity of the electoral system on the eve of the runoff and rejected the accusations.
Servini stressed that Argentina has a very reliable and secure system, as recognized by international authorities on the subject. Although he recognizes the possibility of certain alterations in some ballot boxes, he emphasizes that these would be exceptions and not the norm.
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