After the negotiations between the Nation and the governors fell on deaf ears, the Government gave up calling for extraordinary sessions in Congress, so the project to suppress the PASO was put on standby.
Guillermo Francos demanded to eliminate the PASO
However, beyond legislative times, the intention to avoid primaries remains latent in the libertarian administration. In this vein, Francos commented that the 2025 electoral process to elect national deputies and senators “it will have an estimated cost of more than 500 million dollars, between PASO and general elections.”
“If we eliminated the PASO, we would save between 35% and 40% of that sum. That is, we are talking about savings of more than 150 million dollars,” the official said in a publication on his social networks.
Following this line, he evaluated that since 2011, the date on which they came into effect, they have only been an economic cost for the State and a nuisance for all citizens, who have had to vote in Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASO) to solve the problems that politicians have not known how to solve in their own parties.
Finally, the Chief of Staff assured that “It would be essential that we could eliminate them definitively, if there was an agreement in extraordinary sessions or at the beginning of the ordinary period, to save Argentines time, inconvenience and money.”
Along these lines, some districts anticipated and took firm steps to annul the PASO. Salta, for example, eliminated the PASO with the endorsement of both chambers of its Legislature.
Districts advance in the elimination of PASO
Governor Gustavo Sáenz signed decree 689 by which he called provincial elections for May 4, 2025, as Ámbito had anticipated.
Sáenz’s initiative in relation to the PASO achieved an overwhelming majority, since over 60 members in Deputies only four spoke against: from the Peronist Mirta Miller, the radical Soledad Farfán, as well as Jorge Restom and Isabel Devita, from the Todos bloc. The official Socorro Villamayor He defended the measure by remembering that the project had the support of the Executive Branch, among other arguments.
“He former governor Juan Manuel Urtubey “adopted the system to achieve greater citizen participation in the electoral processes, but time demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the PASO, because in the four elections in which it was used, the participation of political parties did not exceed 20%.” , held.
Sáenz’s initiative in relation to the PASO achieved an overwhelming majority, in the session last Tuesday the 29th, since out of the 60 members in Deputies only four expressed themselves against: the Peronist Mirta Miller, the radical Soledad Farfán, as well as Jorge Restom and Isabel Devita, from the Todos block.
At the same time, in the City, Jorge Macri will move forward with the signing of a decree to unfold and advance the elections in the City of Buenos Aires, they assured this medium from the Uspallata headquarters. In addition, it will call extraordinary sessions to suspend the PASO. The head of Government seeks to strengthen the competitiveness of the PRO and avoid the transfer of national votes to the local libertarian troop.
The battle for the composition of the capital’s Legislature and, due to its transitive nature, the future of local management, will begin to be played earlier than expected. It happens that in the coming days, as Ámbito learned, Macri will order the separation of the call to the polls in Buenos Aires territory to separate himself from the national elections.
Source: Ambito
