2023-10-31 06:50:00
He Government will maintain the long weekend which coincides with Sunday, November 19, the day on which the runoff that will define the next President of the Nation, despite having received a suggestion from the National Electoral Chamber (CNE) so that will move the holiday to Monday the 20th considering that it might discourage attendance at the polls.
Presidency sources stated that the idea is to give “predictability“to the people who already bought flights and hotels for that date and they clarified that it is not a bridge holiday, which is what the Executive Branch establishes, but rather it is established by law and a DNU would have to be issued to modify it.
Ballot: the Electoral Justice asked to move the holiday of November 20 to avoid absenteeism
In this framework, the discussion regarding a alleged political convenience for the ruling party tending to the fact that the non-attendance to vote of the people who will be sightseeing on that date would benefit the applicant Sergio Massawho led the vote in the general elections.
Massa: “People are going to vote the same, whether there is a holiday or not”
Asked regarding this days ago, the current Minister of Economy and candidate to succeed Alberto Fernández maintained that changing the holiday from Monday the 20th (Sovereignty Day) is something that “must be resolved by parliament”, while considering that “People are going to vote the same, whether there is a holiday or not.“.
“If they want to vote, they will change the package, they will go in December, they can also use the Preview“added Massa, in reference to the tourism subsidy that the Government implemented.
For her part, the presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerrutihad also defended maintaining the holiday of the day following runoff between Massa and Javier Milei.
“Given the versions circulating regarding a possible modification of the holiday scheduled for next November 20 due to the coincidence with the second round of elections, the government denies that this is being evaluated,” the official said last week.
Days ago, the president of the CNE, Alberto Dalla Vía, sent the note to the secretary general of the Presidency, Julio Vitobelloin which he recommended that because the second round is scheduled for Sunday, November 19, “consider the corresponding measures to move the holiday to next November 20“.
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