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Electoral assembly, crossed statements and surveys, in a live coverage on the way to the PASO.
Unión por la Patria, Juntos por el Cambio, spaces of the left and liberals defined their candidacies for the 2023 elections and clashed with crossed statements. I followed the coverage minute by minute on the way to PASO and the general elections in October.
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The election for governor began in San Juan
On a cool morning, with a temperature around 4°, the election for governor began in San Juan. With the polls already receiving votes, 603,276 San Juan residents are enabled, at 1,795 tables distributed in 234 schools.
For governor and vice there are ten annotated formulas. But previous polls speak of a head-to-head dispute between two fronts: the official coalition All for San Juan, which nominates the governor’s brother, Senator Rubén Uñac, and United for San Juan, with Marcelo Orrego with a better chance of winning.
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Patricia Bullrich and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta focus their fight for the opposition electorate in the Conurbano
Rodríguez Larreta campaigning in Lomas de Zamora together with Diego Santilli.
The province of Buenos Aires -with its more than 16 million inhabitants- is the mother of all electoral battles. Phrase done but true. And the opposition knows it. For this reason, at the start of the campaign and on the way to the PASO in August, the two PRO presidential candidates will focus on the Conurbano, where the dispute over the votes of Together for Change will be key.
This Saturday, while the head of Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta set foot in Lomas de Zamora, along with Diego Santilli, his candidate for governor; Patricia Bullrich did the same with Néstor Grindetti in Malvinas Argentinas and Pilar. Read more here.
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One year after the ‘coup’ against Martín Guzmán: Cristina’s emptiness, Máximo’s betrayal and Massa’s score
In February 2022, Martín Guzmán sent Axel Kicillof a draft of the agreement he was negotiating with the Monetary Fund. They say that in politics worse than being badmouthed is being ignored, and Cristina Kirchner hadn’t answered the Economy Minister’s phone for weeks. Four days before the government announced that it was reaching an understanding with the IMF —on January 28— all communication was cut off.
Sending Guzmán to Kicillof not only did not get Cristina Kirchner to consider speaking to her again, but the governor worded the agreement to the vice president’s son, Máximo Kirchner, —according to Guzmán’s interpretation— and the leader of La Cámpora ‘leaked’ it to the Kirchnerist media to “criticize” the minister from there, accentuating the confrontation more, instead of bringing positions closer. Suddenly, the IMF and Guzmán saw how the discussion they were having over the technical line was jibarized in BAE, El Cohete a la Luna, El Destape Web and a handful of twitter accounts of militant journalists who talked about the minister negotiating, for example , a pension reform and a rate adjustment. Read more here.
Kicillof closes the act with which the campaign began in Merlo
Kicillof speaks to the militancy in Merlo.
The Buenos Aires governor and candidate for re-election for Unión por la Patria closes the campaign launch event in Merlo that he shared with Máximo Kirchner, Wado de Pedro and local leaders.
Kicillof, Máximo Kirchner and Wado de Pedro participate in an act in Merlo
Máximo Kirchner at a campaign event in Merlo.
After having led an act in Hurlingham, Máximo Kirchner and Wado de Pedro participated together with the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof in a campaign act in Merlo.
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Elisa Carrió and a message to the inmate: “The PRO was divided between sectors of the center and the extreme right”
Carrió pointed against the PRO. Photo: Rafael Mario Quinteros
Elisa Carrió melancholy observes her house in Exaltación de la Cruz, which took her years to build but now she is leaving to move to the Capital. The leader of the Civic Coalition says that she can no longer support it. Carrió is worried about the economic crisis, about the climate of violence and about what she says she began to see for a while. The shift towards an “extreme right” of sectors such as Milei’s and the one within the PRO, according to her gaze, commanded by Patricia Bullrich and former President Mauricio Macri. The former deputy maintains that this path can end in a social crisis and repression.
Despite everything, he avoids speaking ill of Rodríguez Larreta’s rival in the Juntos inmate. “I respect her, I will never speak ill of her,” he says. Read more here.
Frigerio campaigned in Entre Ríos with Rodríguez Larreta and Fernán Quirós
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Traditional acts and “closeness”: Peronism divided up the Conurbano to consolidate its own vote and recover the disenchanted
Sergio Massa in a close talk in San Martín.
Unión por la Patria started the electoral race with glimpses of what the strategy of the ruling party will be like in the campaign. The main referents of Peronism scattered in the first electoral section, in the north and west of the Conurbano, in an eclectic bet that mixed traditional acts in Merlo and Hurlingham with a calculated aesthetic and Sergio Massa in a “proximity” tour, in his home district.
Close to the presidential candidate they argued that the segmented messages of the UP allies are capital and relativized the few mentions of the allies to Massa. “Each one speaks to their public to consolidate their own vote and recover the disenchanted. We started with a unity choir and now there is a territorial choir,” they explained. Read more here.
In the Buenos Aires suburbs, five Unión por la Patria mayors will have inmates in August
The Electoral Board of Unión por la Patria enabled the internal inmates in eleven municipalities of the Buenos Aires suburbs for the PASO and in five of those districts the current mayors will compete to renew their mandates.
In Tigre, Mayor Julio Zamora was enabled after desisting from integrating the lists of other political parties, as the body that regulates internal participation in UP had demanded, and will compete with Malena Galmarini.
For his part, in San Martín the interim mayor Fernando Moreira will confront the national deputy and leader of the Evita Movement, Leonardo Grosso; in Hurlingham the camporista Damián Celsi will face the former Minister of Development Juan Zabaleta; while in La Matanza Fernando Espinoza will compete with the Buenos Aires provincial deputy and leader of the Evita movement, Patricia Cubría.
In Moreno, the mayor and leader of the Evita Movement, Mariel Fernández, will face the councilor of the Renovation Front, Damián Contreras, and the local Peronist leader Osvaldo Balán.
Burlando confirmed that he will not compete in the elections for the Buenos Aires governorship
“The necessary conditions of consensus and harmony are not given,” Burlando wrote from his Instagram account.
And he added: “I see it daily in that scenario that I once called a piranha pond, where one is attacked and bitten for a charge and not for the prevalence of ideas and projects that provide solutions to people’s claims.”
Burlando announced his decision on Instagram.
