2023-09-24 21:08:00
This Sunday, Mendoza It was the last province in electing governor during the month of September, following Santa Fe and Chaco. With the elections closed this followingnoon at 6 p.m., it is regarding the last election of this type until the general elections on October 22.
Jorge Albarracín, secretary of the Electoral Board, confirmed that After 4:30 p.m., 58% of the voters had cast their vote.
“It might be that there is an attendance percentage higher than that of the PASO (66%), but we are going to be cautious and wait for the elections to close,” said Albarracín.
The president of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Electoral Board of Mendoza, Delmiro Garay Cueli, estimated that the dissemination of the first official data of the provincial elections will begin around 10pm. “Taking into account that this is an election in which there are not so many candidates, but there are many categories; and taking into account that we already had previous experiences with the Single Ballot,” she said.
However, the Mendoza Electoral Justice evaluates that the count can be “agile” and they do not rule out publishing count data before that time.
2023 elections in Mendoza: Omar De Marchi denounced “cheats”, but trusts the results
The opposition candidate Omar De Marchi cast his vote at the Teresa O’Connor school, in the department of Luján de Cuyo. The candidate of La Unión Mendocina denounced “last-minute tricks” on the part of the ruling party and assured that this “will not bend the will of the people of Mendoza.”
In dialogue with the media, De Marchi defended provincialism as the spirit of his front: “We put together La Unión Mendocina with a look to the future. “No one is going to do for the people of Mendoza what we do not do for ourselves.”
Asked regarding his relationship with the presidential candidate of La Libertad Avanza, the deputy responded: «We have a very good personal relationship with Milei. I really appreciate that you have put interesting ideas on the table. But for me, there is nothing more important than the province of Mendoza.
“Have a great dialogue and a deep relationship. We talk regarding the country, the institutional advances in the province, and the important issues,” revealed the gubernatorial candidate.
In principle, the favorites to replace Rodolfo Suarezthe current Mendoza governor unable to run for re-election, are the radical Alfredo Cornejoon the front Cambia Mendoza, and the former PRO Omar de Marchiwho will compete on behalf of the Unión Mendocina.
Along with them, they will also go for the provincial Executive, although with fewer possibilities according to the latest provincial STEP, Omar Parisifrom the Peronist Frente Elegí Mendoza, Lautaro Jimenezby the Unity Left Front, and Mario Vadilloof the Green Party.
In these elections, in addition to governor and vice, 19 senatorial seats and 24 provincial councils were put into disputerepresenting the four electoral sections into which Mendoza is divided.
2023 elections in Mendoza: Cornejo voted and said that “a first year of turbulence is coming”
Alfredo Cornejo, Cambia Mendoza candidate, voted at the Julio Lemos school, located in his native department, Godoy Cruz. Regarding yesterday’s statements by Vice President Cristina Kirchner, he assured: ““Argentina has to reject that demagogic and populist message, which is why I think it is a process that is already running out.”
“We hope that these elections will help the people of Mendoza to elect a good government. A first year of turbulence is coming at the national level; there is social demand for economic change. We hope that this change, which is going to come, is irreversible, it will have a good impact on Mendoza. A good provincial government is important for the coming context; There will be turbulence at first but then growth, and in Mendoza we need it too”Cornejo expressed following casting his vote.
2023 elections in Mendoza: Cornejo and De Marchi, the story behind the favorites
According to the latest polls, Senator Cornejo, former governor, and De Marchi, who knew how to integrate the ranks of the ruling party, They are the ones with the greatest chances this Sundayin line with what was seen in the provincial primaries.
Since his breakup with Cambia Mendoza, local version of Together for Changethe representative of the Unión Mendocina opted to polarize with the former president and attract the votes of the other opposition forces.
Cornejo, meanwhile, relied on the strength of radicalism in the province and the weight that his name has in a district that Peronism knew governortoday relegated, during the last years of the last century.
In the national PASO, it was Javier Miley who won the victory in Mendoza territory, leading the opposition coalition by more than 15 points, with Patricia Bullrich y Horacio Rodríguez Larreta as candidates.
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