2023-11-02 17:22:00
This Thursday, Congress will proclaim the formulas that will compete in the runoff 2023 for which 17 days left and in which it will be decided which of the two candidates will become in the future president of the nationbetween the formulas of Unión Por la Patria (UxP) and La Libertad Avanza (LLA).
At two in the followingnoon, the event will begin in which the Legislative Branch will make official the electoral contest on Sunday, November 19, between Sergio Massa y Javier Miley. The session to comply with the constitutional mandate will be chaired by the vice president of the national government. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The president of the Upper House called the senators and deputies for today’s session, as established by article 96 of the National Constitution and the provisions of the National Electoral Code in sections 120,150 and 151.
New rules for the presidential debate
The former head of state will address the premises of the Chamber of Deputies minutes before he started the Parliamentary Assembly from his office in the Senate and, in addition, it will be his public reappearance, following having gone to vote in Río Gallegos within the framework of the first round of the 2023 elections.
The last time they met legislative Assembly to ratify a runoff It was almost eight years ago, on November 4, 2015 between Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri, in which the founder of the PRO was the winner of the final elections that took him to the Presidency of the Nation.
Moderators, notes and interruptions: what is known regarding the rules of the debate between Massa and Milei for the runoff
Alberto Fernández confirmed that he will not be present in the Legislative Assembly
One of the striking absences that the ceremony on Thursday, November 2 will have will be that of the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, who although he was invited to attend, confirmed that he will not attend the formal event according to what was indicated by his closest entourage. .
On the other hand, the ruling party does not rule out holding a new assembly before the 2023 runoff. Since, in the Senate, the Government will seek to convert the VAT-Free Purchase Program and the initiative to create three National Universities into law, that already have favorable opinions.
Survey: how the agreement between Mauricio Macri and Javier Milei impacted voting intentions ahead of the runoff
The anteroom of the Legislative Assembly
The Lower House will meet before the Legislative Assembly, with the purpose of making a special summons that will be headed by Cecilia Moreau to accept the resignations of deputies Rossana Chahla, Mario Leito and Claudio Poggi, legislators who will assume different positions in their different provinces and the corresponding swearing-in of their replacements.
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