Guillermo Francos resumed activity in Casa Rosada and insisted on the elimination of the PASO. There is still no consensus to call extraordinary sessions
Guillermo Francos He returned to Casa Rosada today in the midst of incipient contacts with the dialogue opposition to revive the elimination of the PASSED in extraordinary sessions. The national government is now evaluating a plan B in the event of not having allies to eliminate the primaries for the legislative elections in October and they have begun to analyze Macri’s proposal to suspend them within the framework of the administrative and economic emergency established in the law. .
The PRO took the lead in the City of Buenos Aires where Jorge Macri unfolded the electoral calendar and sent a project to the Legislature to suspend the primaries for positions of Buenos Aires legislators. The move puts pressure on Cristina Ritondo’s bloc of national deputies, where a project by María Eugenia Vidal is nested to convert the primaries into optional ones. That is, eliminate its obligation.
STEP fracture
In the UCR and in the Unión por la Patria there are no unified positions either. Rodrigo de Loredo’s UCR bloc was received at the end of the year by Javier Milei and in Casa Rosada and would be willing to contribute votes to suspend the PASO. In Peronism, José Mayans has already warned from the Senate that they are not closed to debating the issue but that it should be included in a call for extraordinary elections that includes other topics such as the 2025 Budget.
This afternoon, the chief of staff once again insisted on the cost of the PASO in the midst of a scenario of sharp cuts in public spending. “Since their implementation, the PASO have only generated expenses for the State and inconvenience to citizens. In 2025, the total cost of the electoral process could be reduced by between 35% and 40% if we eliminated the Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries, and that “each party or political front resolves its candidacies internally,” was the message that Guillermo Francos spread this Monday from his account on the X network.
In the Casa Rosada they do not even rule out a call by Javier Milei to extraordinary sessions in February to vote on the elimination of the primaries even without the support of Peronism in the room. “We can build an equal majority, without them,” the national government stated in response to the consultation of Scope. The thing is that in Unión por la Patria they want to condition this and other agreements on the negotiation to fill vacancies in the Supreme Court of Justice and also to appoint a new Attorney General.
The criticism of Guillermo Francos
Francos commented last week 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.” 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.”
Source: Ambito
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