Salta will be one of the four provinces that this Sunday opens the electoral year in regard to the renewal of legislative chambers. There will also be elections in Chaco, San Luis and Jujuy. The governor, Gustavo Sáenz, He wants to revalidate his second government at the polls, while freedom progresses (lla) will try to play in his first elections.
In this province, one of the particularities of the elections is that they will be carried out with the Unique electronic ballot (BUE), the same that is used in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. This system began to be used in a pilot test in 2009 and began to be used, formally and progressively, starting in 2011. Because of the speed of scrutiny, they hope that by 20 of this Sunday, there will be a well -marked results trend.
They will be renewed 30 benches in the Chamber of Deputies, 12 in the Senate121 councilors and 232 municipal conventional. The election will be made in 19 of the 23 departments that make up the northern province. In twelve of them senators will be renewed and in eleven there will be replacement of deputies.
The choice of 12 Senators (one per department) will be in the capital of Salta, Cachi, Cafayate, Chicoana, General Güemes, Guachipas, La Caldera, La Poma, Los Andes, Molinos, Rosario Lerma and San Carlos. In each of them a titular senator and a substitute will be chosen.
Meanwhile, the choice of 30 deputies It will take place in the capital of Salta, Cachi, Anta, Cafayate, Chicoana, Iruya, Metán, Oran, Rivadavia, Rosario de la Frontera and San Martín.
In total haby 1,109,673 Salteños enabled to vote. The district with the greatest electoral weight is the capital, with 457,642 voters, representing more than 41% of the total. Behind, in specific weight, the departments of San Martín follow, with 142,428 voters and pray with 124,747. At the other extreme, there are locations with a handful of voters such as La Poma, which has 1,501 voters and Guachipas, where there are 3,272.
The determining in these elections will be the total percentage of legislators to draw each force. That is, how many of the 42 benches that are at stake between the two cameras will be of the ruling party, Freedom advances, together for change, dissident Peronism or the left. And what result they will get in the capital, the most important electoral district.
The official alliance, which Gustavo Sáenz leads, is called “For the unit of the Salta” And he carries as a candidate for senator for the capital to Bernardo Biellaa provincial deputy with a past close to Alfredo Olmedo.
Below the alliance there are two electoral fronts that, in some departments they compete, but that draw votes for the same political scheme. The votes of the two lists are agglutinated in the same place. It is a variant of the extensive and pragmatic provincial party that Sáenz built.
-On the front “Let’s jump” The candidate for deputy for the capital is Flavia Royonthe former Ministry of Mining during the government of Alberto Fernández. On the front “United by Salta” The deputy candidate is Guillermo Krippercurrent councilor for the ruling party in the capital of Salta.
In the ruling party they have expectations of making a good choice and Stay with more than 50% of the benches that are put into play in the two legislative chambers. They bet to consolidate the absolute majority they have in the legislature. They made a campaign with focus on the province. Upside off the libertarian expression, which nationalized much of its message anchored in the need to expand the Milei model by the country.
In the case of Libertad, the candidate for senator for the capital is Roque Cornejowhich currently occupies a bank in the Provincial Chamber of Deputies. The list of deputies for the capital is headed by Claudio Cansino.
Last week Friday “The forces of heaven”the group led by Daniel Parissini, better known as the “Gordo” Dan, traveled to Salta to support local candidates and their main shipowner and reference in the province, the national deputy María Emilia Orozco.
In the libertarian scheme they bet to consolidate as the main opposition to the space of Sáenz and thus take a first step towards the national election of October, where Lla aspires to polarize with Peronism and keep the triumph. In the presidential ballot Milei achieved 58% of the votes in the province, which gives it a very voluminous voting base for the next provincial election.
Another of the political expressions that will compete this Sunday is that of the Salteño Justicialista Frontthat brings together the PJ de Salta and the La Victoria party, which leads the national senator Sergio “Bear” Leavy. Will take as a candidate for senator for the capital to Guido Giacosa y a Verónica Caliva as a candidate for deputy for the same district.
The local PJ was intervened in March by decision of the head of the party nationwide, Cristina Kirchner, because legislators who were elected under the justicialist seal ended up accompanying the government of Javier Milei in Congress.
The former president’s decision shook the party scheme in the province and much of the leadership was ran in this election under the roof of the alliance that Sáenz leads. The party was emptied and in the hands of intervendors arranged by CFK: the former security minister Sergio Berni and the Pampas legislator María Luz “Luchy” Alonso.
What he knew how to be together for the change fractured. The PRO on the one hand and radicalism on the other. He Cambiemos Salta Frontwhich is led by the PRO, presents as a candidate for senator for the capital to José Gauffin and as a candidate for deputy to Agustina Álvarez. Meanwhile, the Front Togethercomposed of the UCR and the Plural Front, carries on the Senate Ballow to Matías Posadas.
