The Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires approved the project to suspend the elections Open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries (step) In 2025, as requested by the Governor Axel Kicillof. This is the first step of a truce in Kirchnerism, although the request of the Executive Branch was excluded from the opinion to extend the deadlines for the presentation of lists and ballots.
Next, The project will have to go through the Provincial Chamber of Deputies for its final sanction and, if it becomes law, in the province they will not go to the polls on July 13 for open and simultaneous inmates, as the governor had arranged in mid -March.
During the parliamentary work meeting on Tuesday in the Buenos Aires Senate, the agreement was defined with the opposition blocks, in a special session requested by PRO, UCR and La Libertad Avanza (LLA), in coordination with the Vice Governor Verónica Magario.
The possibility that, in the Chamber of Deputies, it is agreed to incorporate articles related to electoral deadlines. If so, the project should return to the Senate for its definitive sanction.
The original project of the Executive included, in addition to the SUSPENSION OF THE STEPmodifications in the deadlines for the call for general elections, recognition of alliances and presentation of lists and ballots. These points were excluded from the approved opinion.
Consequently, the approved commission office establishes only the suspension, only once and for 2025, of the primary election regime, except articles 16 and 17 of the Province’s Paso Law. Thus, the electoral campaign may begin thirty days in advance and must end forty -eight hours before the general election.
Cristina Kirchner backed down with the concurrent elections project in PBA
In the middle of the inner growing within Buenos Aires, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner decided to back down with his proposal to concurrent elections in the province of Buenos Aires. In a gesture that seeks to lower the tension, the head of the Justicialist Party (PJ) sent a sign of approach to the governor Axel kicillof, although he reiterated his criticisms of the electoral unfolding that he drives and took the opportunity to launch new warnings on the consequences of the economic course of the government of Javier Milei.
The former president published an extensive message in her account of X hours before the Buenos Aires Senate debates the suspension of the step: “Today, April 14, I still believe, along with other companions, that in the next parliamentary elections in the PBA, both national and provincial, the best for Buenos Aires in general, and for Peronism in particular, is to vote only once, on October 26“
In that sense, Cristina stated that the most convenient would be to respect the electoral model that has been applied since the return of democracy: a single choice for national and provincial positions. And warned that Separating the elections with just six weeks apart would not only imply an excessive expense in the midst of an economic crisis, but also a political error for Peronism.
“Go to vote twice with a difference of just six weeks between one choice and another; and, at the same time, allocate large resources for electoral unfolding, It does not seem to be the most advisable. Above all, within the framework of economic and all kinds of difficulties, which is going through the society product of Milei’s policies. “
Cristina recalled that “it is better for Peronism in particular: because It is a provincial error to choice by unfolding itgiven the hardships of the Buenos Aires people as a result of the fall of resources and, at the same time, divide the efforts into two elections; As I said at the plenary meeting of the Provincial Council of the Buenos Aires PJ, held in the town of Moreno on December 9, 2024 ″.
Cristina Kirchner referred again to the Plnary of the Buenos Aires PJ held in December 2024 in Moreno, where the electoral calendar was discussed. There, he recalled that there were no voices that publicly defended the unfolding before the presence of the entire leadership of the provincial ruling, both of the Executive and the Legislative.
Within that framework, he said that, “Today, as president of the National Justicialist Party, and despite continuing to believe that unfolding the elections in the province of Buenos Aires is a political error (God wants to mistake me), I have asked the presidents of the provincial legislative blocks of our political force, companion senator Teresa García and fellow deputy Facundo Tignanelli; that they give up the Bonaerenses Bonaerenses bill so“
In a gesture of approach to Axel Kicillof, Cristina said that, “”I asked them to transmit to the companions of both banks, who accompany, in the relevant part, the bill of the fellow governor that was signed by the opposition (UCR, Lla and the PRO)“
With this decision, the official call is maintained on April 7, which Set the provincial elections for September 7. The national elections, meanwhile, will be held on October 26, so the Buenos Aires must attend the polls twice.
