Governor Sáenz signed the decree calling for elections for next May 4, with electronic voting. The parties will go to elections to choose their candidates.
Jump He anticipated the national government and eliminated the elections Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASO)after the approval of a bill from the Provincial Executive Branch in the Chamber of Deputies, which had previously obtained the approval of the Chamber of Senators. In the last hours the Governor Gustavo Sáenz signed decree 689 by which he called provincial elections for May 4, 2025as Ámbito had anticipated.
Sáenz’s initiative in relation to the PASO achieved an overwhelming majority, in the session last Tuesday the 29th, 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.
In line with his peer Villamayor, the deputy Bernardo Biella He was in favor of the proposal and added that it will also mean savings in millions of pesos. “I ask that those that were initially destined for the PASO be redistributed to education, health and security to improve budgets,” he expressed. Two weeks ago the project was debated in the Senate, an occasion in which the president of the General Legislation Commissionthe ruling party Javier Mónico, had also resorted to a similar argument, expressing that the suspension of PASO in 2021 and 2023“was well received by the political parties and the people because it meant significant savings for the public coffers.”
With the disappearance of the primaries, a new regulatory framework was established for political parties and municipal groups in the province, which now provides that the parties must elect their candidates through the mechanism of internal elections. The parties must nominate their candidates for provincial and municipal positions in accordance with what their organizational charter establishes, while the alliances or electoral fronts that are formed will define the applicants through the rules established by their articles of incorporation.
Thus, Sáenz achieved what the Government and neither his counterpart could yet. Raúl Jalil, from Catamarcawho from his first term as governor whitewashed his intention to end the PASO, an objective that he could not achieve due to lack of consensus in the Legislative Branch. A sector of the bench that responds to the national senator Lucía Corpacci, former governor and president of the local Justicialist Partyremains distant from Jalil’s claims. The one who could achieve it is the Mendoza provincial chief Alfredo Cornejowho maintains a good dialogue with the Casa Rosada, like Sáenz and Jalil, because a project by former governor Rodolfo Suárez, close to the current president, entered the provincial Senate a few weeks ago.
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As this media had anticipated, Governor Sáenz signed decree 689 by which he called provincial elections for May 4, 2025. Representatives will be elected before the legislative chambers of Salta (Senators and Deputies), Deliberative Councils and the mayor of the municipality of Aguas Blancas, Orán department, which is intervened.
The decree also establishes for the election of provincial and municipal authorities what Law No. 6,444 establishes, that is, electronic voting. In the last decision in Deputies, this issue was introduced because the opposition considers that it is a very expensive system and that it is not more transparent than the paper ballot.
Source: Ambito
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