Voting centers open for general elections in Argentina

The electoral colleges of Argentina They opened at 8:00 am (11:00 GMT) this Sunday for the general elections that will decide the president and vice-president, as well as other national and provincial positions.

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 Senate, and appoint 43 Argentine representatives to the Parliament of Mercosur (Parlasullegislative body of the bloc formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay).

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Along with this there will be general elections for positions in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Entre Ríos and Autonomous City of Buenos Aires -who decided not to separate their elections from national ones, like the other districts.

According to information from the Ministry of Defense, more than 86 thousand soldiers from General Electoral Command, dependent on the Armed Forces, they were mobilized for the logistics and guarding of the ballot boxes and voting material distributed in 17,400 schools and precincts across the country, which will be open until 6:00 pm (9:00 pm GMT).

These elections are mandatory for voters between 18 and 70 years old; and voluntary for those between 16 and 18 years old or over 70 years old, in addition to Argentine citizens residing abroad, who, due to the time difference, have already started voting in some of the 137 diplomatic and consular representations from 86 countries.

Argentina must elect the next president to govern the country from on December 10 for the period 2023-2027replacing the Peronist Alberto Fernándezwho decided not to run for re-election.

The main candidates for the position are the leader of the Advances of Freedom (far right), Javier Milei, who received the most votes in the August primary and is the main favorite; the current Minister of Economy, Sergio Massarepresenting the governing coalition Union for the Fatherland (Peronism); and the applicant Together for Change (center right), Patricia Bullrich.

Furthermore, the governor of Cordoba in office, Juan Schiarettiwho represents Hacemos Por Nuestro País (dissident Peronism), and the candidate of the Left and Workers Front, Myriam Bregman.

If the candidates do not reach 45% of the votes or at least 40% and 10 percentage points over the next most voted candidate, a second round must be held on November 19th.

This vote will not be effective in the case of the province of good air, whose governor will be known this Sunday. The candidates are the Peronist Axel Kicillofcurrent head of Government and person very close to the vice-president, Cristina Fernández; the center right Nestor Grindetti and the ultraliberal Carolina Piparo.

In the same year that Argentina celebrates four decades of democracy after the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), the country faces these elections in the midst of a serious socioeconomic context, with a annual inflation which in September rose to 138.3%, a population poverty level of 40.1%, a scarcity of reserves and an exchange rate disparity of more than 200%.

On Sunday night national government will carry out the provisional vote which aims to inform the population, but has no legal validity.

The final exam, carried out by the Electoral justice and the only one with Legal validitywill begin next Tuesday.

Source: Elcomercio

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