The time for speeches and campaigns is over. The general legislative elections were finally launched of the Argentine Republic. However, the beginning did not occur in our country, but, due to the time difference, it occurred in geographically distant nations such as Australia, New Zealand and China.
As officially reported by the Argentine Foreign Ministry, citizens of our country began to pay at the Consulate General in Sydney, at the Embassy in Wellington and at the Consular Section of the diplomatic mission in Beijing.
According to what has been published by the National Electoral Directorate (DINE), the “Argentine men and women residing abroad effectively and permanently (with a change of address registered in the Argentine DNI) are automatically incorporated in the Register of Resident Voters in the Exterior”. His vote, it is explained, “is optional.”
In this way, a total of 409,152 Argentines living abroad, and who were not entitled to vote in the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primary (PASO) of September 12, can appear at the 133 diplomatic representations of our country in abroad.
In social networks, citizens reflected in different publications the fulfillment of their civic duty, despite being thousands of kilometers away from their place of origin.
How is the system
The DINE also reported that, to vote, Argentines abroad must comply with the requirement of having a foreign address registered with the DNI prior to June 16.
Votes received from abroad are counted in each province and added to the district where the last address that the voter has registered in Argentina appears.
The number of Argentines residing abroad who participate in the elections has been increasing in recent years. In the 2019 presidential elections, 49,300 qualified delegations attended, 12% of the 385,000 authorized at that time, and that figure far exceeded the 2017 legislative elections, which was 14,007 people, which had also been a record.
The districts with the most voters residing abroad are the Federal Capital, with 152,093; Buenos Aires, 125,076; Mendoza, 27,935; Cordoba, 26,983; Santa Fe, 25,043; Entre Ríos, 6,441; Missions, 6,139; Tucuman, 5,153; Jump, 4,246; San Juan, 3,769; Rio Negro, 3,301; Formosa, 3,268; Corrientes, 3,012; Chaco, 2,674; Chubut, 2,357; Neuquen, 2,304; Jujuy, 2,197; St. Louis, 1,693; Santiago del Estero, 1,429; La Pampa, 1,300; Santa Cruz, 947; Tierra del Fuego, 720, and La Rioja, 509, according to figures from the CNE.
The Consular Section of the diplomatic mission in Beijing, another of the sites that have already been enabled.
The cities with the most Argentine voters are, among others, in Spain: Barcelona, with 36,534, Madrid 28,861, and Cádiz 10,622; in the United States: Miami, with 31,707, New York 22,393 and Los Angeles 18,995; in Paraguay: Asunción with 14,723; in Uruguay: Montevideo with 13,988; in Chile: Santiago de Chile, with 13,277; in Israel, Tel Aviv with 13,172, and in Italy: Milan, with 11,263, according to 2019 figures provided by the Foreign Ministry.
With information from Télam.
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