It was announced by Government Minister Ricardo Villada. He also anticipated that they will be carried out with electronic voting and without STEP. “In the 2021 and 2023 elections they were not used and nothing happened,” he said.
Salta will be the scene of the first electoral test for the Government, following the decision of the Governor Gustavo Sáenz to choose May 4 of next year for the elections to be held provincial legislative elections. Despite the recent decision of Congress to have approved the system Single Paper Ballotin this district electronic voting will be maintained and it was anticipated that the Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASO).
The decision was announced by the Minister of Government, Human Rights and Labor of the province, Ricardo Villadain contact with various media outlets. According to the official, in the next few hours it will be raised to Legislative Branch a project from the Government House to put aside the current primary system. Its approval in October, after treatment by the committees, is discounted, since the ruling party has an overwhelming majority. “The parties did not use this tool, only 20% went to internal elections and the rest did ‘floor STEP’, that is, going to an election to achieve 1.5% and thus move on to a general election,” he explained. “The responsibility will return to where it belongs, to the party members. People were already expressing discomfort because they voted in the PASO, then in the general elections and there they found the same faces,” he said. “In the 2021 and 2023 elections they were not used and nothing happened. In addition, a lot of money was spent,” he concluded.
With this political decision of the Salta president, who is part of the group of dialogue-oriented governors, the countdown began in the different parties, who must launch their own internal ones to settle candidacies. If another province does not anticipate its elections, the first electoral test of next year for the government of the province will be held in Salta. president Javier Mileiin the midst of tension in the provinces due to the chainsaw of national State resources for public works, health, public transportation and education.
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At the beginning of October, the Chamber of Deputies approved the bill for the implementation of the Single Paper Ballot (BUP) but it will not govern in Salta. “The single ballot is important, it is a key advance for the country and it is good that the Nation has made that change but Salta has adopted electronic voting and it is good,” he said. He indicated that he knows of the existence of bills to implement the BUP in that province, from different deputies, but the people of Salta will go to the polls with the electronic vote that governs. “Everyone wants to incorporate technology in the electoral processes and Salta already has it oiled,” he concluded.
In May the 50% of the Legislative Power that has two chambers. Deputies have 60 members, while the Senate is made up of 23. Another fact to consider is that as a result of the reform of the 2021 Provincial Constitution, out of the 60 municipalities, only 25 will have councilors elected because districts with five or less Councilors will not hold elections until 2027. The future mayor of Aguas Blancas, who is being intervened due to the arrest of former communal chief Carlos Martínez, will also be voted on this turn.
Together with Salta, next year provincial legislative positions will be voted on in the City of Buenos Aires, La Rioja, Catamarca, Corrientes, Misiones, Formosa, Chaco, province of Buenos Aires, Mendoza, San Luis, Santiago del Estero and Jujuy.
Source: Ambito
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