(CNN) – This Sunday, the simultaneous and compulsory open primary elections (PAS) were held in Argentina, prior to the legislative elections on November 14, with an adverse result for the ruling All Front, which fell in most provinces. , including the largest.
According to official data, Together for Change, the main opposition force, prevailed in the City of Buenos Aires, the province of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe and Mendoza, the five most populous provinces in the country.
The biggest surprise came in the province of Buenos Aires, ruled by former Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, where the opposition won 37.99% of the vote (adding the votes of Diego Santillian and Facundo Manes, who competed in internal), against 33.64% of the Front of All.
Meanwhile, in the City of Buenos Aires, where Together for Change is officialdom, collected 48.19% of the vote (plus the three internal lines), well above 24.66% of the list of the Front of All.
The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, acknowledged this Sunday the electoral defeat of the bureaucracy in the primary elections and stressed that he has taken into account the result and what he will work to reverse in the next general election.
“Today the people expressed themselves and expressed themselves in a very special situation because the truth is that we continue to live in a pandemic that complicates our lives a lot,” Fernández said. “But in spite of everything we were able, in agreement with other political forces, to carry out this election, take another month, postpone a month and in this month we had the opportunity to vaccinate 12 million more people and in this way to reach this instance with more tranquility and more security and less risk of contagion “, added the president of Argentina.
“We have actually done with Axel (Kicillof, governor of the province of Buenos Aires), with all of us here, with Cristina (Fernández de Kichner, vice president of the Nation), with Sergio (Massa, president of the House of deputies), a huge effort, at this time.Obviously something we will not have done well so that people do not accompany us as we expected them to accompany us and all of us here listen to the verdict of the people, listen to it with respect and l ‘we listen very carefully, because we know that there are obviously mistakes we have made and that we did not have to make.’
Meanwhile, the opposition alliance in Argentina, Together for Change, has as its great challenge in the legislative elections to contest more seats in Congress to officialdom and consolidate a political platform to return to government in 2023.
“Argentina has just solved a problem. Public opinion issued a decisive verdict. The government lost in 17 of 24 provinces. And it lost in its most important district, which is the province of Buenos Aires, by five. points. A very powerful fact, for the unexpected, “said Marcelo Longobardi of CNN Argentina in his analysis of the results of the PAS.
What is being voted on this year in Argentina
In the midterm elections in Argentina in 2021, 127 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 24 of the 54 seats in the Senate were renewed.
This year, the electoral roll registers 34,332,992 people eligible to vote, according to the Interior Ministry. They did so in 17,092 establishments (about 2,800 more than in previous elections), with a total of 101,457 tables.
The election operation included 15,170 broadcast operators and 2,746 supervisors across the country. In addition, there were 25,620 urns and more than 9,000 postal workers on Sunday.
A total of approximately 95,000 troops were deployed to the General Electoral Command, made up of the Armed Forces and the security and police forces.