PASO 2023: Cristina Kichner votes for the primaries “on a day of personal emotions”

The vice president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchnerissued in the southern province of Santa Cruz your vote for primaries that are celebrated this Sunday throughout the country with a view to the general elections next October 22.

who will rule Argentina between 2007 and 2015 he voted in a school in the provincial capital, Rio gallegos (2,600 kilometers south of Buenos Aires), where the vice president lives.

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After casting his vote, for which he waited in line for an hour and a half, Kirchner said that the school where he voted is a place “Very particular“for her, because in that school”always voted” her husband, the late former president Nestor Kirchner (2003-2007).

“He came here to vote with Florence (his daughter) on April 27, 2003, and in the gym where I was waiting for an hour and a half, the closing of the October 1991 campaign for his first governorship was held. He was mayor (mayor of Rio gallegos) and we closed the campaign here”, recalled the vice president.

“It is a day of personal emotions”, affirmed Kirchner, in a day in which they will define which candidates are qualified to participate in the October elections.

The main presidential candidate of the ruling Peronist front Union for the Fatherland He is the Argentine Minister of Economy, Sergio Massaleader of Renovating Frontthird force within the official coalition.

Last June, Massa was anointed as a candidate for “unit” for the space aligned with the Argentine president, Alberto Fernandezby the sector that responds to Cristina Kirchner and by the Renewal Front itself.

In the internship of Unión por la Patria also participates John Grabois as a presidential candidate for a minority sector of the left within the ruling coalition.

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Some 35.4 million Argentines are summoned to define with their vote the lists of candidates that will be qualified to compete in the general elections on October 22, when president and vice president will be elected, 130 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 24 of the 72 seats in the Senateand 43 Argentine representatives will be chosen for the Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur, legislative body of the bloc made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay).

Simultaneously, general elections -not primaries- are held in Santa Cruza province with barely a weight of 0.7% in the national electoral register, but with a strong symbolic content for being the cradle and bastion of kirchnerism since 1991.

Source: Elcomercio

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