The head of Government of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macriannounced this Friday the splitting of the legislative elections in the Argentine capital with respect to the national ones and their advancement to next July 6, as well as their intention to eliminate the primary elections.
“Today we decided to split the legislative elections of the City of Buenos Aires and, jointly, we are going to send a project and call the legislature to extraordinary sessions to discuss the suspension of the PASO (Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Compulsory) in the city”, advertisement Macri during a press conference.
The advance of the elections means that the inhabitants of the city will go to the polls on Sunday, July 6, to elect local legislators and some time later – the date has not yet been defined but it is expected to be in October – they will vote again, along with the rest of the country, to define the composition of the chambers of Deputies and Senators.
The mayor argued that the holding of the legislative elections in Buenos Aires prior to the national elections will allow “have an electoral discussion agenda that focuses on the city’s problems.”
Regarding the suspension of the PASO explained that it is a mechanism that “In the legislative sphere, it never has real competition within the political spaces” and highlighted that they imply an expense of more than 20,000 million pesos (about 20 million dollars).
“We are going to implement a set of reforms that include electoral changes, as well as the reduction of the tax burdenan institutional reform with administrative and management changes, and the deepening of the autonomy of the city”, added the head of government.