2023-08-11 16:49:28
The PASO 2023 elections (Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory) will be this Sunday, August 13, but as of today at 8:00 a.m. the electoral ban is established. However, many candidates for president decided to suspend their campaign closing acts hours before due to the cruel murder of Morena Domínguez, an 11-year-old girl who was attacked by motorcycles when she was going to school.
In this context, the main figures next Sunday spoke publicly about what happened. The presidential candidate of Unión por la Patria and Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, gave a message before the PASO, after the murder of Morena, the girl from Lanús, and the death of a protester in the middle of a police operation in the Obelisk: “We are not that failed society that they talk about. We are not a shitty country.”
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The candidate for Together for Change, Patricia Bullrich, also used social networks: “Pain again. Now with the murder of Morena, 11 years old. All my accompaniment and support to family and friends. We cannot continue living with so much anguish and fear. This no longer works. They transformed Argentina into an unlivable country”.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta also expressed himself through Twitter, after his team confirmed the suspension of the end of the campaign this Thursday: “There are no words for so much pain. My condolences to Morena’s family and her loved ones. We need justice. I’m going to accompany them to demand it.” For his part, Javier Milei said: “There were decades of putting the victims in the place of the perpetrators, and the criminals in the place of the victims.”
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The National Electoral Chamber calls to vote in the PASO
August 11, 2023, 11:20 am
The National Electoral Chamber (CNE) issued a statement in which it urges people to vote on Sunday and asks politicians to help ensure that the day develops in an orderly and peaceful manner.
“The National Electoral Chamber calls on citizens to exercise the fundamental right of suffrage and on political actors to contribute to the orderly and peaceful development of the day, in safeguarding the most precious and transcendent values of our democratic coexistence,” said the president. agency in a statement.
He also indicated that the “election day next Sunday will have, as always, the organizational measures and security conditions necessary to ensure the attendance of voters at the polling stations, in a climate of tolerance and civic respect.”
The national electoral director gave details of the time in which the results of the PASO would be known
August 11, 2023, 10:50 a.m.
The national Electoral Director, Marcos Schiavi, announced that the first results of the PASO will be known around “10:00 pm” on Sunday and considered that “this time the process will be slower.”
“We are not going to give the results earlier than we were able to give them in 2021. I imagine that we are going to be around 10:00 or 10:30 p.m.,” said the head of the DINE in statements to radio Miter.
Schiavi reviewed: “In 2021 we faced a process that due to the pandemic we thought would cause a significant delay, but we were able to give the results of the STEP around 9:40 p.m. In 2021 there were at most three categories -as happened in the province of Buenos Aires- and in some provinces it barely added a fourth. Now we have four categories to count, and even in some important provinces there are eight categories. Added to this is the problem of the City of Buenos Aires, ”he argued.
Rogelio Frigerio presented his last spot before the start of the electoral ban
August 11, 2023, 09:44 am
The pre-candidate for governor of Entre Rios for Together for Change, Rogelio Frigerio, presented this Friday his last spot prior to the beginning of the electoral ban in the face of PASO this Sunday.
“I am hopeful,” says Frigerio in the video, which is completed with different images of the electoral campaign.
Larreta on the protests prior to the PASO: “There are people who want to rot it”
August 11, 2023, 7:59 am
The presidential candidate of Together for Change Horacio Rodriguez Larreta criticized the Government for the “irresponsibility of questioning the holding of the elections” and complained about the protests prior to the PASO, warning that “There are people who want to rot it.”
“Questioning the three-day elections is really irresponsible, just when we want people to go vote, after the levels of absenteeism that were seen in the provinces,” said the head of the Buenos Aires government regarding the ministers’ statements of security, Hannibal Fernandezand Transportation, Diego Giuliano.
Minutes before the ban begins to take effect, he added: “I understand the anguish of the people, the unease, for not seeing answers, but the solution is not not to go to vote.”
in dialogue with Radio Rivadavia, The PRO referent referred to the protest that took place on Thursday at the Obelisk and the incidents that occurred and warned that “there are people who want to rot it.”
“The purpose is obviously to muddy the field, generate more confusion, want to affect electoral decisions,” he said, prior to a new mobilization in repudiation of the death of the protester Facundo Molares.
Regarding that situation, Rodriguez Larreta He stressed that “what happened was that in the framework of a demonstration a person died of a heart attack.”
“You have to investigate how a guy from the FARC was in Argentina, what was someone doing with that record,” he added.
He also called for “good sense” to the social organizations that will march this morning in downtown Buenos Aires: “I appeal to the good sense of those who call and lead the march to avoid situations of violence. And I hold them responsible if they provoke them.”
On the other hand, the referent of Together for Change He recognized that “changes generate discussion initially, but you have to have the leadership and convictions to carry them out.”
“The vast majority of Argentines, the majority silent, want a profound change,” he remarked.
Bullrich spoke about the insecurity and death of the protester at the Obelisk: “They show the Argentina of uncertainty”
August 11, 2023, 7:55 am
Shortly before the electoral ban, which starts at 8:00, Patricia Bullrich gave a report to radio Miter in which she reviewed the “hard moments that were experienced” after the murder of Morena in Lanús, the murder of the doctor in Morón and the death of a demonstrator during a protest at the Obelisk.
Shortly before the start of the electoral ban, Patricia Bullrich spoke on Miter radio about insecurity in the country and the death of the protester at the Obelisk.
“The murder of Morena, an 11-year-old girl, the doctor yesterday in Morón and this episode in Obelisk with a deceased person, has been very hard, but it is taken as if it were a political murder by the groups that want to raise it that way. What I would do is describe in this climate what Argentina is and what it needs”, said the pre-candidate for president for Together for Change.
He explained that “Argentina is this disorder, it is this uncertainty of life, the insecurity that you leave your house to go to school and they kill you, that you go out looking for your son at the door of your house and they kill you.”
“A person with health problems, who is known to have had health problems for a long time, dies and they want to foist this on the government and the police of the city of Buenos Aires at the end of the campaign,” highlighted the JxC pre-candidate.
On the verge of the ban, the ruling party campaigns on networks: Massa, De Pedro and Cerruti call to “defend the Homeland”
August 11, 2023, 07:40 a.m.
With posts on their social media accounts, government officials and leaders of the Union for the Homeland called to vote on Sunday “in defense of the Homeland, education, work.”
Minutes before the electoral ban came into force, Gabriela Cerruti, Wado de Pedro, Sergio Massa, Cecilia Moreau, among other pro-government leaders, uploaded electoral messages to the networks.
Electoral ban in PASO 2023: how long it lasts and everything that cannot be done
August 11, 2023, 7:15 am
ELECTION CLOSURE. It begins this Friday and ends on Sunday, August 13 after the elections (Photo: AFP)
The Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory (PASO) elections in Argentina will be this Sunday, August 13 and the electoral ban is a period in which certain restrictions and prohibitions apply. What can be done and what happens in particular with the sale of alcoholic beverages.
In a tense climate, the electoral ban started: JxC concentrates on adjusting the speeches and on the final calculations
August 11, 2023, 6:30 am
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich. (Photo: CABA Press / Telam)
The campaign ended with public opinion shocked by the crime of the 11-year-old girl in Lanús and the death of a demonstrator in a protest at the Obelisk. Bullrich and Larreta are preparing for the election that the opposition leadership will decide.
Expectations grow for the market’s reaction after the STEP: the five economic scenarios for what is to come
August 11, 2023, 6:15 am
The expectation of the market’s reaction after the STEP grows: the 5 economic scenarios for what is to come. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo).
On Sunday the Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory (PASO) will take place in a context of economic fragility and strong uncertainty. The keys to understanding what to expect on Monday.
The crude analysis of the specialists on the elections after the murder of Morena
August 11, 2023, 06:00 am
Morena’s crime: the girl’s father assured that “in a few days” he will leave with her. (Photo: TN)
In the run-up to the elections this Sunday, the focus shifted from inflation and focused on the fight against crime. A group of political scientists told TN that “there is a shift to the right” that weakens the ruling party and strengthens the opposition.
The ruling party seeks to do damage control after the Morena case and believes that Milei could be the most benefited
August 11, 2023, 5:00 am
Axel Kicillof, Sergio Massa, Wado De Pedro and Máximo Kirchner, architects of the UxP electoral strategy in the province of Buenos Aires. (Photo: Massa press)
In addition, at the Unión por la Patria campaign headquarters, they do not rule out greater absenteeism in the face of the anger of society. The shock impacted official activities and is causing concern in the Kicillof environment.
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