The governor of Jujuy, Carlos Sadir, has already decided to add his district to the group of five provinces where local legislative elections will be separated from national ones. His peer from Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo, doubts adopting a similar measure because the provincial legislation already splits the local elections from the national ones and if it is not modified, the people of Mendoza will have to go to the polls in the summer of 2026. Everything will depend on their relationship with the Casa Rosada, where they are more interested in increasing the number of own national deputies and senators to grow in local legislatures, Ámbito was told.
So far, Chaco, Santa Fe, Salta, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and San Luis are the provinces where their governors decided to separate local votes from national ones. The opening of the calendar will be on April 13 in Santa Fe, with the elections of conventional constituents for the reform of the local Magna Carta. In May there will be a super electoral Sunday, it will be on the 11th, since on that same day voting will take place in Salta, Chaco and San Luis. In Santiago del Estero and Corrientes, new governors will be elected this year and so far, both Gerardo Zamora as Gustavo Valdeswho cannot be re-elected, have not decided the dates or if they did, they have not yet been made official to determine the times of their oppositions.
That is, of the five provinces governed by the UCR, two have already announced separating the date from the national one (Santa Fe and Chaco) while Corrientes must do so by law. Thus, definitions remain in Jujuy and Mendoza.
In both districts, the calculations have as a reference the good image of the president Javier Milei and if it is sustained it could have an impact on the national elections in October, in the face of a fragmented opposition. The great difficulty of Freedom Advances (LLA) It is the lack of territoriality of its provincial references, where historical local forces are strong. Therefore, as in the case of the libertarian national deputy from Jujuy Manuel QuintarLLA opposes the split. “Jujeños are already tired of voting so many times. In 2023 we went to the polls four times. Now they want to spend 4,000 or 5,000 million pesos in a separate election, instead of allocating that money to hospitals, patrol cars or improving the streets,” He told media from his province.
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In Jujuy, the first clues of the almost certain split came from the vice-governor Alberto Berniswho when asked before the end of the year about the feasibility of separate elections, responded that “they could be in May, April, June or July.” Faced with criticism about the cost of going to the polls on a date other than the Nation, he responded: “The cost of the provincial election will be the same as October, in Jujuy it is the same to hold separate elections, what must be evaluated is what province we want, not to mix with the national elections. But they are personal assessments,” he said. “As a political force, as a front, we have not yet defined the date of the elections but we are discussing. There are various opinions that we will discuss but it will very possibly happen, we Jujeños have to discuss the problem of the Jujeños, not mix them with the national elections,” he concluded. also head of the Legislature.
In this province the unicameral system governs, which has 48 members, and 50% are renewed every two years. In this case, the official Cambia Jujuy Front (FCJ)whose backbone is radical, like Sadir, puts the largest number of seats at stake, so it is not in his plans to lose the majority he holds, this medium was told.
For Whose
In the mid-term elections in Mendoza, national and provincial legislative positions and municipal deliberative council positions will be renewed. In total, 98 councilors, 43 provincial legislators and 5 national deputies. This province has chambers of Deputies and Senators. The first has 48 seats, while the second has 38, and in both cases, half of its members are renewed.
If the radical governor Alfredo Cornejo applies what the provincial law establishes, local positions will be defined in elections that must be held in two sections: February 2026, the primaries and the general elections in April. In the district they do not plan to eliminate local PASOs, as Ámbito reported. In any case, the provincial head has the power to modify the date of the elections through a decree of necessity and urgency. “Cornejo has the power to unify the elections but has not yet decided,” an official source consulted told this medium. Everything would depend on the governor’s dialogue with the Casa Rosada, to which he has been close, until now. “Milei needs the number of national deputies to grow and become strong, for Cornejo it is imperative to consolidate his provincial army, so it is not ruled out that there is a split agreement with that premise,” reflected a leader of Mendoza Peronism who is attentive to these movements.
Cornejo, in a province that does not contemplate re-election, has before him two strong candidates for the governorship who would seek to succeed him in 2027 and are already in the race. On the one hand, Omar de Marchiwho comes from the PRO, was Secretary of Parliamentary and Civil Society Relations, appointed by the current Government, and who resigned from that position to take office in November as vice president of Aerolíneas Argentinas. On the other hand, the Minister of Defense of the Nation, Luis Petriof radical origin, who plays in tandem with his Security counterpart, Patricia Bullrich.
Source: Ambito

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