2023-09-08 05:35:00
Candidates for governor of Santa Fe, Maximilian Pullarofrom ‘United to Change Sante Fe’ (provincial name of Together for Change) and Marcelo Lewandowskifrom ‘Juntos Avancemos’ (local name of Unión por la Patria) closed their campaigns this week, ahead of the elections this Sunday in the third most populous district in the country.
Pullaro, top favorite following prevail in the inmates last July over Carolina Losadaclosed his campaign on Wednesday in the city of Esperanza, where he promised that he will not “lose a minute to start the change in Santa Fe.”
It was an act in the same place where the former provincial Security Minister began his campaign on April 20, in which he used the same format as on that occasion, that is, a ceremony without an audience, broadcast on social networks.
“We people of Santa Fe know that Santa Fe is several provinces in one. We also know of the potential, capacity and tenacity of all the people of Santa Fe. They were four years of a Kirchnerist provincial government that never defended the interests of this province. That he let the national government put its foot on us all the time. That he never wanted to help us,” Pullaro said.
The radical leader did Emphasis on the security issue, one of the main axes of the Santa Fe campaignespecially due to the violent episodes that are experienced daily in the main city of the province, Rosario.
In that sense, Pullaro promised to put the police “on the street and on their feet” and return to “complex criminal investigations and control prisons.” He also pointed out that he will push in the Legislature “the law of drug dealing, to destroy each bunker in each neighborhood and in each city of the province”.
On the subject of education, he stated that Santa Fe will once more “have 180 days of class and end from the first day with non-repetition.”
Pullaro arrives well profiled at the elections on Sunday, since in the PASO of July obtained more votes than the four pre-candidates of Peronism combined and in the sum of the votes that Losada garnered, his space drew more than double that of the ruling party (980,000 once morest 434,000).
Lewandowski’s tension with Governor Omar Perotti
On the side of Lewandowski, national senator and former sports journalist, closed his campaign this Thursday with an act at the local Hippodromewhich included musical shows and brought together the entire Santa Fe Peronist leadership.
Lewandowski maintained a relationship of tension throughout the campaign with Governor Omar Perottidespite the agreement they sealed to share a ballot, with the current Santa Fe president going as the first candidate for provincial deputy.
They showed themselves throughout this proselytizing moment going through their own paths and appeared together in a few moments, even to the point that Perotti did not accompany the candidate to succeed him from his space in the debate held days ago.
“They went to the dry cleaner to wash the suit, but they are the same as before. They changed the suit, they are the same. The past cannot be future, the bad things for the province cannot return,” the Peronist senator shot days ago in an interview, referring to United to Change Sante Fe, a space where the PRO, the UCR and socialism coexist.
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Pablo Javkin and Juan Monteverde dispute Rosario
The mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin, of Together for Change, will seek his re-election in the Santa Fe elections this Sunday, in which he will be challenged by the young Kirchner councilor Juan Monteverdepartner of the social leader Juan Grabois.
In this way, in the elections for the leadership of the main city of Santa Fe they face hand in hand Together for Change once morest Peronisma bipartisan scheme that also governed in recent years at the national level but that was broken in 2023 with the emergence of the libertarian Javier Milei.
In the PASO, Javkin was aligned with Carolina Losada, the internal rival of the candidate for governor Maximiliano Pullaro, but then they quickly closed ranks and shared acts ahead of Sunday’s vote.
The leader of JxC reaped 96,793 votes and, in this way, he beat the other five proposals that his space had. In the Rosario mayor category, a total of 19 candidates competed, but only two made it to the general elections.
During these four years of management, Javkin had repeated crossings and confrontations with the Casa Rosada and with the Peronist governor Omar Perottidemanding the dispatch of the Police and Federal Forces to fight once morest drug trafficking.
Precisely, as a result of this criminal activity that hits the city every day with daily acts of violence, it was the central theme of the campaign for mayor.
Since Pullaro is close to being Perotti’s successor, Javkin believes that a natural alignment with a governor of the same political persuasion should be key to ordering security in the next four years.
Monteverde, the other leader who will compete in the general elections, with 81,531 votes, surprisingly prevailed within Peronism, called Juntos Avancemos and made up of the Justicialista Party and Ciudad Futura, following becoming strong in Nuevo Alberdi, a Rosario neighborhood where its political space maintains a display of militancy.
In these last days of the campaign, the leader of very good arrival at the highest levels of national Kirchnerism, showed up with the candidate for governor of Peronism, Marcelo Lewandoski and seeks to carry out the coup in Rosario.
Among all the JxC applicants, in the PASO they took 52.93% once morest 34% achieved by Peronism.
A candidate for councilor from Santa Fe died in a tragic traffic accident
Gabriel Manuello59-year-old dentist and radical leader, passed away Wednesday night in a tragic traffic accident.
Facing the elections that will take place this Sunday, Manuello had run as councilor of the town of Sastre in Santa Fe and integrated the list of the district party ‘Together Neighborhood Forty’a group that will compete for three seats in the local Deliberative Council.
Minutes before 8:00 p.m., the man was driving a white Renault Kangoo and got lost in the southern access that connects the head of the Iriondo department with the Rosario-Córdoba highway.
The causes of the accident were not clarified at the moment, but it is suspected that the deceased driver lost control of the vehicle in the first curve when it was going from south to north, with a fatal outcome: the car rolled several times and caught fire in the area known as “ex Peralta fair”.
According to the newspaper The capital, a neighbor contacted the fire station at around 7:55 p.m. to report that a vehicle was on fire at the intersection of Pringles and Castelli. He would also have warned regarding the presence of a body lying on the ground.
The crew immediately went to extinguish the fire in the area of the accident. After the arrival of police and medical assistance personnel it was confirmed that the dentist and candidate for councilor had died.
Sastre’s UCR lamented in a statement “the sad loss” of Gabriel Manuello, whom they remembered as a “neighbor of the city and current candidate for councilor for Juntos Vecinal 40”.
Regarding the political career of the leader, diary one He stressed that Manuello had supported the current councilor and candidate for mayor Leandro Baravalle in August 2017, when he was elected as the youngest councilor in the country.
“His last public appearance”, reported said newspaper, “was this Tuesday, when he participated in the debate organized by the local channel STV Canal 4 in which he he elaborated on his electoral platform in case of being elected as a councilor. In the last elections, he had placed fourth out of a total of six lists that proposed candidates for the Council and now he hoped to add the votes of the two that did not reach the floor to go to the general elections, to win one of the three contested seats.
They also warned that his photo will appear on Sunday ballots of the general provincial elections.
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