Argentine Elections 2023: Alberto Fernández encourages voting and highlights that “the people decide”, after voting

The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, encouraged citizens “to vote” and highlighted, after voting this Sunday in Buenos Aires, that “the people decide”. “We did everything necessary for this process to develop peacefully. The rest is democracy, it’s the people who decide”, said the head of state after voting – at 9:45 am (12:45 GMT) – in the general elections that Argentina is holding forty years after the country’s return to democracy after the last military dictatorship ( 1976-1983).

Fernándezwho chose not to run for re-election, avoided some questions from the press about self-criticism of his administration for being “under electoral ban” and reiterated the request to citizens to go vote “and speak out”.

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To questions from the media, parked outside the Catholic University, located in Porto Maderoin the south of the Argentine capital, Regarding what he will do on December 10, once he leaves the Presidency, Fernández replied that he will live “like a citizen” and added that “it doesn’t matter” whether he continues in politics or not.

Although the president said this Sunday that he has been following the campaign “very closely, deeply involved and interested” in its evolution, last week he participated in the Silk Road Forum in China, among many other meetings.

For the ruling coalition Union for the Fatherland (Peronism), new name for the ruler In front of everyoneit is up to the current Minister of Economy, Sergio Massawho was already a presidential candidate in 2015, when he came in third place – with the then dissident Frente Renovador – in the elections that Mauricio Macri (Cambiemos, center-right) ended up winning.

Around 35.4 million Argentines are called upon to, in addition to electing president and vice-president, renew 130 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 24 of the 72 in the Senateand appoint 43 Argentine representatives to the Mercosur Parliament (Parlasul, the legislative body of the bloc formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay).

Elections are also being held for positions in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Entre Ríos and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires – which decided not to separate their elections from national ones, like the other districts.

The main candidates who aspire to replace Fernández are, in addition to Pastathe leader of La Libertad Avanza (far right), Javier Milei, who received the most votes in the August primaries, and the candidate of Juntos pela Change (center-right), Patricia Bullrich.

In addition, the incumbent governor of Córdoba, Juan Schiaretti, who represents Hacemos Por Nuestro País (dissident Peronism), and the candidate of the Left and Workers Front, Myriam Bregman, are running.

Source: Elcomercio

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