While the Government pushes for the Budget 2025 with governors, including those of the PRO, Milei and Macri wage a political war of low intensity in the face of an eventual electoral front between La Libertad Avanza and the yellow party. If the PASO are eliminated, the definition of candidates would fall under the pen of Javier Milei without another institutional mechanism to define the names on the ballot.
“Milei has the pen, Macri does not,” warns an official who works alongside Patricia Bullrich. The PRO sector that responds to the Minister of Security aspires to become a one-stop shop where Macrismo leaders can join the La Libertad Avanza tickets in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and in the province of Buenos Aires.
The thing is that PASO orders in the opposition what Javier Milei’s pen decrees in the assembly of the ruling party’s lists. That is the key to Milei’s project that also promotes atomization in Peronism.
Mauricio Macri’s offer
Macri aspires to a macro agreement that covers both districts: CABA and PBA. With a 70-30 scheme for the PRO on the Buenos Aires ballot and a 70-30 for La Libertad Avanza in the province of Buenos Aires. While it is not defined who could lead the list for national senators, the libertarians flourish with the Manuel Adorni’s candidacies and they do not even rule out Bullrich in a breakup scenario with Macri.
Without calling for extraordinary sessions, the project to eliminate the PASO depends on being included in a possible call for extraordinary sessions. However, it would not have sufficient support from the rest of the blocks either. Cristina Ritondo’s PRO has already anticipated that he does not support the initiative and they recalled that María Eugenia Vidal already presented her own project: primaries, open and simultaneous but not mandatory.
The head of the block of deputies of the UCR, Rodrigo De Loredoalso expressed his rejection of the elimination of the Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory elections (PASO) proposed by the government of Javier Milei. The radical also warned that “It would be all the more serious if he did it in collusion with Peronism”given that “it also helps Cristina (Kirchner) that there is no STEP, since Peronism leads, she has the pen and she doesn’t want Axel Kicillof to propose a STEP. If it is something coordinated, it would be serious.”
The reform of Javier Milei
The project of the National Executive Branch submitted to Deputies seeks the repeal of the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries Regimepresent in Law No. 26,571, while determining changes in the requirements for the officialization of the lists, the publication of registers and the regime of Single Ballot to adapt the reform. If it does not call extraordinary sessions, the ruling party would not be able to implement the modification for the 2025 elections.
Other proposals seek to reform articles of the Organic Law of Political Parties No. 23,298, establishing as a requirement to recognize legal-political personality the request of a group of “at least 50 citizen voters of the corresponding district”, a circumstance that until the At the time it established percentage values (a figure not less than four per thousand of the total registered in the registry).
It also establishes increasing the number of provincial branches necessary (it rises from 5 to 10) to guarantee recognition as a national party; reduces the days to make an alliance official (from 80 days to 70 days before the elections); relaxes the requirements for party membership; and proposes the expiration of a political party if in one of the last two national elections it does not reach 3% of the votes.
Source: Ambito
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