2023-04-16 03:10:22
Río Negro and Neuquén will become tomorrow the first districts in the country to elect their next governor, legislators and the rest of the provincial authorities this year, while there will also be municipal elections in the cities of Trelew (Chubut) and General Cabrera (Cordova).
The two Patagonian provinces are part of the batch of 16 districts that announced a split in their national elections -with PASO on August 13 and elections on October 22- and will begin tomorrow a tour of electoral Sundays loaded until the end of the year, after a week in which the city and the province of Buenos Aires confirmed their elections for the same day as the general ones.
Also tomorrow Trelew -the second city in number of inhabitants in Chubut- and the Cordoba town of General Cabrera will elect their mayor and municipal authorities.
In Río Negro, where its 589,251 voters represent 1.63% of the national register, a new governor, 46 deputies, 22 mayors and 36 authorities of development commissions will be elected with the D’Hont system among a total of 3,303 candidates, out of 25 party forces.
Eight candidates will compete for governor and the ruling party of Juntos Somos Río Negro will seek to retain power at the hands of the national senator and former governor Alberto Weretilneck, in a formula with the mayor of Viedma, Pedro Pesatti.
The Radical Civic Union will support the Juntos Somos Río Negro formula for the governorship, although it presented its own candidates for legislator with its historic List 3.
The alliance Nos Une Río Negro, made up of a sector of the Río Negro Justicialista Party, the Frente Renovador and Nuevo Encuentro will also support Weretilneck’s candidacy as a collecting list and will take its own candidates to the Legislature.
Cambia Río Negro, the alliance formed by the PRO and the CC-ARI, has as its candidate for governor the national representative of the PRO, Aníbal Tortoriello, and as vice the radical leader Juan Pablo Álvarez Guerrero.
Meanwhile, a sector of the PJ will present itself under the label “Vamos con Todos”, made up of the Organized Community parties; of Labor and the People (PTP) and of Labor and Equity (ParTE), with the nomination of former deputy Silvia Horne, as a candidate for governor.
Unity for Victory, another sector of the PJ made up of the Frente Grande and Kolina, will take Gustavo Casas, while the socialists of “Somos Unidad Popular y Social” will go with ex-priest Rafael Zamaro.
The Primero Río Negro group – referred to as the libertarian Milei – nominated former legislator Ariel Rivero, the Left-Unity Front nominated Gabriel Musa, the Rionegrino Provincial Party nominated Gabriel Di Tullio and the Nuevo Mas nominated Aurelio Vázquez for governor.
In Neuquén, more than 546 thousand people -1.53% of the national census- will vote for governor, 35 deputies, municipal mayor and councilors in 13 second category municipalities and in five first category, 10 members of municipal commissions, presidents of 21 commissions promotion and school counselors for the 14 districts, under the Single Electronic Ticket modality throughout the province.
The pro-government candidate representing the Neuquén Popular Movement (MPN) is Lieutenant Governor Marcos Koopmann, in formula with the former Vice Governor of Jorge Sapag’s administration, Ana Pechén, accompanied by 9 collecting lists.
Meanwhile, the national deputy Rolando Figueroa will be Koopmann’s main competitor, for Citizen Development and Community, which will go as mirror lists, accompanied by the mayor of Plottier, Gloria Ruiz, with seven collectors.
The FDT nominated the former mayor of Cutral Có Ramón Rioseco, together with the provincial deputy Ayelén Gutiérrez, with 4 collectors.
Together for Change is led by national deputy Pablo Cervi (UCR) and former provincial deputy Jorge Taylor, while the Left Front and Workers Unity (FIT Unit) has former provincial deputy Patricia Jure as its candidate for governor, together with former deputy , Raul Godoy.
The Complir group, whose national reference is the deputy Javier Milei, tops its list with the media businessman Carlos Eguía and the real estate company Catalina Uleri.
The Legislature will be renewed, made up of 35 deputies, nine of whom will no longer be able to renew their mandate.
Meanwhile, in the city of Neuquén, 9 candidates will compete for the mayoral election, where Mariano Gaido (MPN) will seek his re-election in office.
On the other hand, in Trelew, with 86,954 Argentine voters and 1,403 foreigners, the mayor and 10 councilors will be elected, in a process for which ten lists of candidates were presented.
The candidates are Emanuel Coliñir (Front of All), Gerardo Merino (Together for Change), Martín Sáez (Left Unity Front), Gustavo Mac Karthy (Libertarian Front) and Eduardo Hualpa (Front for Trelew), while they presented themselves individually. Luis Collio (Culture, Education and Labor Party), Miriam Vázquez (Chubutense Neighborhood Projection), Claudio Paredes (Renovation and Development), Leila Lloyd Jones (We are Trelew) and Hernán Sghelfi (Winds of integration and development in action) .
Finally, in the Córdoba town of General Cabrera, municipal authorities are renewed tomorrow, in which the current mayor, the radical Guillermo Cavigliasso, will compete with Verónica Huppi, from Unidos por Cabrera and where 11,000 voters are authorized to vote.
Next electoral Sunday will be the 30th when PASO will be held in seven communes in the province of Mendoza: Maipú, La Paz, Santa Rosa, Tunuyán, Lavalle, San Rafael and San Carlos, while the general elections will be completed on September 3.
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