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The opposition prevailed in the elections held this Sunday in the Argentine province of San Juan (northwest), so Marcelo Dorrego, of the Juntos por el Cambio (center-right) coalition, will be the new governor after 20 years of Peronist mandates.
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With 96.27% of the votes counted, the United Front for San Juan (local brand of Together for Change) obtained 50.97% with the sum of all its candidates (Orrego, Marcelo Arancibia, Sergio Vallejos and Eduardo Cáceres). compared to 44.45% for the applicants of the San Juan Front for All (of the official Frente de Todos).
Participation was around 70% of the 579,913 people called to vote, which represents only 1.69% of the Argentine electoral roll.
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The existence of several candidates in each formation is explained by the Open Democratic Participation System, determined after the electoral reform carried out in September 2022 in that province, which eliminated the primaries.
For this reason, the new system, known as “double simultaneous voting”, enabled each political group to present several lists of candidates and the most voted within each party received the votes that went to all the other lists of that political force.
In this way, Orrego, who obtained 49.19% of support, accumulates all those on his list.
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This election should have been held on May 14, but the Supreme Court of Argentina disqualified, as unconstitutional, the candidacy for a new re-election of the current governor, the Peronist Sergio Uñac, and that day only elections were held for provincial legislators and municipal authorities. .
The Constitution of San Juan establishes that the governor and the lieutenant governor last four years in the exercise of their functions and can be consecutively re-elected up to two times.
Uñac, who concludes his term on December 10, was lieutenant governor between 2011 and 2015, the year in which he was elected as governor, and re-elected as provincial president in 2019.
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In addition, José Luis Gioja, who this Sunday obtained 27.43% support, had governed between 2003 and 2015, which completes the two decades of Peronist mandates.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the Electoral Tribunal set the date for the governor and lieutenant governor elections for this Sunday.
In addition to Gioja, Rubén Uñac, brother of the current governor, was competing for the ruling party, who obtained 17.02% support.
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Several Argentine provinces have already held elections and others will do so in the coming weeks, in a year marked by the national primary elections on August 13, in which the candidates who will compete in the general elections on October 22 will be defined.
Source: Elcomercio
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