Claudio Vidal, the trade unionist who ended 32 years of Kirchner government in Santa Cruz

A trade unionist ended 32 years of government of the Kirchner family in Santa Cruz Patagonia during the elections in that province, held this Sunday to coincide with the primaries in Argentina prior to the generals on October 22.

Under the slogan “For Santa Cruz”, which encompassed different formations, the deputy claudio vidal obtained 46.48% of the votes, surpassing the provincial subgroups of Union for the Fatherland (Peronism), who obtained 43.82% of the votes.

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The province was governed by Peronism since the South American country returned to democracy after the military dictatorship (1976-1983) and, since 1991, by Kirchnerist leaders – a family of Peronism embodied in national politics by the late former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and the current vice president and former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015)-.

Of those 32 years of power in the quintessential Kirchner bastion, the first 12 were under the government of the late ex-president, who he was governor of Santa Cruz between 1991 and 2003when he made the leap to the Casa Rosada (seat of the national Executive).

Also, his sister Alice Kirchneris the current governor, a position she assumed in 2015 and in which she will just finish her second term.

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Santa Cruz is the place where Cristina Fernández has her house and where she travels every time she has to vote -as happened this Sunday- or when she wants to rest and isolate herself from the public life of Buenos Aires -as happened after the attack suffered on the 1st of September-.

Vidal, 43 years old, He is the general secretary of the union of oil workers and a national deputy born in the Frente de Todos (name of the current pro-government coalition, changed to Unión por la Patria for the current elections), but which included candidates of all political colors in its slogans during this election.

He was a strategic ally of Alicia Kirchner until 2021 and, despite the fact that he defines himself as a Peronist, he chose an opposition politician as his running mate, Fabian Leguizamon, of the Radical Civic Union (center right).

“We are going to close the cracks; That is why we are here a Peronist and a radical”he had expressed during one of his campaign rallies.

During this Monday, Kirchner recognized and greeted the governor-elect for his unprecedented election: “A special greeting to the governor-elect Claudio Vidal, I wish him the best in his administration and I remain available for this transition. Santa Cruz deserves it.”

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The Santa Cruz voting system is based on the motto law, a system of double simultaneous and cumulative voting, in which each political coalition is presented for elections by groups, which may be integrated by other lists within the coalition or submottos.

In this sense, the most voted sub-motto is elected, to which are added the percentages of the other spaces within the same motto.

Vidal’s unexpected victory was added this Sunday to another surprising victory at the national level, that of the ultra-liberal economist Javier Milei, who was the winner of the presidential primaries with 30.04%, who passed over Peronism and the Argentine opposition right. .

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Source: Elcomercio

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