2023-05-08 02:50:00
With advanced scrutiny, the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, prevailed tonight in the provincial elections and achieved re-election. With 50% of the tables scrutinized, the candidate of the Frente de Todos harvested 46.36% and surpassed the candidate of Together for Change, Philip Alvarezwhich got the 33,35%.
To celebrate the victory, the president Alberto Fernández will travel this Monday to La Rioja to lead a tour of road works together with Quintela. While, Freedom Advanceswhose candidate was Martin Menem -nephew of ex-president Carlos Menem-, was in third place, with 15,96%following having denounced theft of tickets once morest him.
In addition to electing the next provincial president, in these general elections (in La Rioja there is no STEP) they defined provincial deputies in 11 departments; mayors and vice mayors and councilors in all departments.
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The people of La Rioja also voted for 36 conventional constituents to carry out the reform of its provincial Constitution: in this category, the Front of All achieves 58.60%while Together for Change reaps 37.49%.
The results of the elections in La Rioja at 23:41 with 50% of the tables counted
- Ricardo Quintela (Front of All), 44.99 %
- Felipe Álvarez (Together for Change), 32.67 %
- Martin Menem (Freedom Advances), 15.74 %
- Carolina Goycochea (Left Front), 0.98%
- Cristián Corzo (Liberal Force Alliance), 0.45%
- Mario Olmedo (Front La Rioja Can), 0.45%
Outrage: they closed a table to eat a roast
At School No. 97 El Tala in the town of Rosario Vera Peñaloza, located in the south of La Rioja, the authorities decided to close the table because “they went to eat a barbecue“, causing the outrage of voters who had to wait for them to return.
“At 1:15 p.m. they closed the voting for an hour because the rest went to eat a barbecue and I stayed alone here. We have an hour recess. Voters come and they are told,” explained the Attorney General of Together for Change.
FIRST IS THE ROAST:
In La Rioja they closed a table because the prosecutors went to eat a barbecue… pic.twitter.com/FrxNGLRJGs
— MARCELO FAVA (@MARCELOFAVAOK) May 7, 2023
“Small inconveniences” during the elections
The head of Institutional Relations of the Police of the Province, commissioner Alejandro Quinteros spoke regarding the security operation that was in charge of the provincial force and admitted that there was only “small inconveniences“.
“There were no situations where we had to stop no personbut if some cases where had to take intervention our police personnel, here in the capital as well as in the interior of the province,” said the official in statements to Independent Radio.
Finally, he remarked that although it is true “there were some accidents”, no serious events were recorded.
Voted more than 70% of the register
According to official data, nearly 80% of voters they went to the polls to elect their authorities in La Rioja. The first results are expected from 20.
This way, the trend was repeated of the last elections held in this province, when legislative positions were elected in 2021.
The liberal candidate denounced fraud and accused Together for Change
The gubernatorial candidate for Liberty Avanza, Martin Menem, charged once morest Juntos por el Cambio prosecutors whom he accused of wanting to steal ballots from his space in the dark room. He did it through the social networks of the group founded by the libertarian and presidential candidate Javier Miley who gave his opinion on the matter.
“Not even 1 hour passed from the beginning of the election and We already have complaints of vote theft in MANY schools. We keep replenishing “, they denounced via Twitter. In a message to his prosecutors, he asked them” to be vigilant “because” the usual rogues want to take the tickets “.
For her part, Milei expressed her irony on social networks: “The honest of Together for the Kargo“.
In the same line, Adrian Menem directly targeted presidential candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who on Thursday was in the province at the closure of the Together for Change candidate. “This is the councilor for @horaciorlarreta who asks that @MenemMartin’s votes be stolen from the polling stations,” Adrián Menem said on his Twitter account with a photo of the woman.
Who were the candidates
The president of the Andean province was accompanied in the formula by the provincial deputy Theresa WoodMeanwhile, on the opposite side is the Juntos por el Cambio binomial made up of the national deputy Philip Alvarez and the vice mayor of the capital of La Rioja, Guillermo Galvanas candidates for governor and vice, respectively.
With the aim of growing and becoming a political reference in the northwestern province, there was the proposal of La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei’s political party, which has Martín Menem -nephew of the late former president Carlos Menem- as its candidate for governor. already Carolina Moreno as vice.
Meanwhile, there was another space of the liberal right in competition with the label Alianza Fuerza Liberal that has as applicants Cristian Corzo and Edgardo Escobar to governor and vice.
The grid was completed with the formula of the Left Front, headed by Carolina Goycochea and seconded by Domingo They knowand finally the La Rioja Front, with Mario Olmedo and José Dum as candidates for governor and vice, respectively.
An important focus of attention has to do with the vote for mayor of the capital provincialthat actually is in the hands of the Radical Civic Union. Radicalism will seek to retain control of the mayor’s office with the candidacy for re-election of Ines Brizuela and Doriawhich is accompanied by its current secretary general, Nahuel Pérez Schoeters.
Meanwhile, Peronism tries to wrest the capital of La Rioja from the centenary party with the candidacy of Armando Molinawho today is Secretary of the Interior and is accompanied on the ballot by Mónica Díaz D’Albano, as a vice candidate.
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