Once this period has passed, the electoral roll will be approved and published on October 10. The presentation of lists and endorsements will be one of the crucial steps for candidates, with a deadline of October 19. The lists and candidates will be displayed until October 22, when the deadline for challenging nominations will also expire.
PJ: ballot templates
If there are challenged candidates, they may be replaced until October 24. The officialization of the lists, together with the drawing of the number corresponding to each one, will take place on October 25. To ensure proper participation in the electoral process, the lists must submit their ballot models before November 1. These ballots will then be approved on November 5, with a deadline for their delivery on November 8, before being included in the ballot boxes.
The internal elections of the PJ will take place on Sunday, November 17, where members will have the opportunity to vote and define the future of the party’s leadership. The governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintelawas the first to run for party leadership. He is one of the provincial Peronist leaders most at odds with Javier Milei and who is said to have the support of other provincial leaders.
Quintela bases his project on the cohesion of Peronism and on a vision of a country that integrates all the provinces. Today, the governor of La Rioja will present the request for the number and color of his list at the national level. In recent weeks, he sought the endorsement of at least five provincial PJ presidents, as well as the necessary endorsements for his candidacy for the presidency of the PJ. To present his list, a minimum of 80 thousand endorsements distributed in at least eight districts throughout the country are required.
Governors and Peronism
On August 9, Quintela appeared in La Rioja with Axel Kicillof, mayors and national legislators from all over the country at the swearing-in ceremony of the new provincial Constitution. The superdome in La Rioja was packed with leaders from all sectors of Peronism, from the Cristinista Oscar Parrilli passing through the tucuman Juan Manzurthe Buenos Aires one Victoria Tolosa Paz, try them from the suburbs like Leonardo Nardini and Daniel Gollanformer health minister of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
There Quintela deployed a critical speech against Javier Milei and also against Mauricio Macri’s management: “The path that the President is taking is wrong, I ask him to modify his policies. It is true that we handed over a country with difficulties, difficulties that began in 2015 with the debt generated by the engineer who was in charge at the time, engineer Macri. They took on a debt of US$47 billion with the IMF. That money is not in schools, hospitals or industries. We do not know where it is but it hangs like a sword of Damocles over the Argentine people.”
From the Patria Institute, sectors linked to Cristina de Kirchner are promoting Lucía Corpacci, former governor of Catamarca and current senator at odds with the administration of Raúl Jalil, as a possible candidate for the presidency of the PJ. That is why it is not ruled out that the league of governors will end up closing a unity formula. Another leader mentioned in Peronism with possibilities of running in the internal elections is Eduardo “Waldo” de Pedro, former Minister of the Interior of Alberto Fernández and current national senator for the province of Buenos Aires.
CGT request
Last week, leaders of the CGT leadership received the Peronist governors at their headquarters Axel Kicillof (Buenos Aires), Ricardo Quintela (Rioja), Sergio Zilliotto (The Pampas) and Gildo Insfran (Formosa), who were asked to have one of them preside over the PJ after the departure of Alberto Fernández. During the meeting, the unionists and the provincial leaders analyzed the “crisis” situation that the country is going through and which they attributed to the “economic program” of the government of Javier Milei.
They also addressed the future of Peronism, for which the CGT representatives called for working on a “consolidation for a true generational renewal of voices and interpreters for the moment we are going through.” “The provincial leaders, together with the board of directors of the union, addressed issues related to the current economic, productive, labor and social crisis that Argentina is going through, as a result of the economic program of the Milei government,” the CGT reported in a statement.
Source: Ambito
