2023-08-14 04:45:42
Javier Milei was the presidential candidate with the most votes in yesterday’s primary elections in Río Negrosurpassing even the adhesions achieved jointly by the two lists of Unión por la Patria and Juntos por el Cambio.
The representative of La Libertad Avanza achieved the 37% of the votes in the provincesurpassing the national ruling party and the opposition coalition, which reaped 26% and 21%respectively.
The preference of the electorate for Milei was repeated in the section for national deputies and for Parlasur by the Río Negro district, projecting to the lists headed by Lorena Villaverde and José Valla as the most voted among the eight options that were in the province.
In the section of deputies, behind the San Antonio Villaverde was the Minister of Justice of the Nation, Martín Soria, from Unión por la Patria, with 22%.
These numbers allow a first interpretation of the behavior of the people of Río Negro at the polls, because the list of the former mayor of Roca also appeared with the other group that competed in the internal party of the national ruling party, headed by Juan Grabois, and In any case, he ranked below the figures of Unión por la Patria in the presidential category. a sign of ballot cut by a section of the electorate.
Regarding Together for Change, in the province the national general scenario was repeated, where the former Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich, was established as the representative of the alliance for the general elections on October 22.
In this way, in the year-end elections the list he will compete with will be that proposed by Barilochense Sergio Capozzi, with radical Miguel Martinez – current mayor of Huergo – as candidate for Parlasur.
In Juntos por el Cambio, the ballot was also cut, since in the presidential section it achieved 2 points more than its pre-candidates for deputies.
The group made up of the PRO, the UCR and the CC-ARI held a modest celebration last night in Bariloche, although in the bunker surprise prevailed over the result of the libertarian candidates, since most of the previous polls did not project them at the forefront of the presidential and legislative competition.
A particular analysis deserves the performance of Together we are Rio Negrowhich appeared last night with 9%, behind the blank vote for the category of national deputies.
The ruling party from Río Negro competed with a short ticket -without presidential candidates- and its harvest only reached 50% of what was achieved in the PASO of 2017, when it was finally decided to go down the list and not compete in the generals.
In any case, until last night there were no signs from the provincial government party regarding the continuity of the path to defend the congressional bench that they are putting at stake this year.
Participation and the blank vote in Río Negro
The participation of the people of Río Negro in the PASO reached a 69.6% of the register, marking a continuity on what was seen in the provincial elections of April, where 68.15 attended schools.
Yesterday’s records mean 2 more points of attendance than in the 2021 primaries in the province, but also the second election with the lowest participation in the 40 years of uninterrupted democracy.
Four years ago, the presidential PASO had summoned 76.02 of the eligible voters.
In this way, the previous data that spoke of further disconnection between citizens and the electoral process They were confirmed, since in addition to the lower participation there was an increase in blank votes.
In 2019 that option was expressed by the 5,32% for the category of deputies and yesterday arrived at the 10%.
Regarding the eight alternatives that the people of Río Negro had to choose the candidates for national deputies, behind the Faith Party, Union for the Fatherland, Together for Change and Together We Are Río Negro, the left parties were located.
The Left Front and Workers Unity achieved between its two lists 3.4 of the voteswith a victory for the sector led by Alhue Gavuzzo in the internal.
The pre-candidate, who accompanied the presidential formula of Myriam Bregman and Nicolás Del Caño, will be the one that represents the alliance in the October elections.
Finally, the Movement to Socialism achieved 0.77% of the votesbeing left out of the general elections.
It should be remembered that the initial requirement for all the groups that participated in the PASO was to obtain at least 1.5% of the valid votes cast, on a basis that includes affirmative votes and blank votes.
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