He Pre -election debate of the 17 candidates that lead the lists that will compete in this election to renew half of the legislature – 30 benches – the Tuesday, April 29at 20, less than three weeks after the May 18 elections. Organized by him Electoral Management Institute (IgE) Buenos Aires, as before the local elections of 2023, will be held in the City channel, The Buenos Aires public television channel. This was resolved yesterday at the audience organized by the IGE with the representatives of the political parties. The signal will be made available to all public or private audiovisual communication services in the country that wish to convey the debate simultaneously, freely and free.
By the Electoral Code of the City, sanctioned as Law No. 6,031 in 2018, The participation of the applicants is mandatory. You have to attend the first on the list, but if you cannot participate for reasons of force majeure, it could be replaced by the subsequent candidate of the list. If they do not, the political space receives a fine, which is 10,000 fixed units. The current value of the fixed unit is $ 731.62 so The fine amounts to $ 7,316,200.
The objective of the mandatory is to promote an informed vote by citizens, and that it can know the proposals and government programs of all the political groups that will participate.
The debate will last 120 minutes and will be moderated by a couple of drivers who respect gender parity. In the opening block, each candidate will have a minute to make a presentation. Then, each one will have another minute to expose their proposals. For the number of applicants, there will only be a thematic block.
Interactions will be much more limited For that reason and for a matter of time. Each candidate must answer three questions that will ask him three of his adversaries, according to a previous raffle. The questions will be asked one behind the other, and each will be answered together in the same block of answers, according to their exposure order. “Receive three questions and answer the three questions together,” explained a source that was at the audience. The debate will conclude with a minute of closing for each candidate.
The draw for the location on stage and for the order of exposure will be this Thursday, April 24, at 11, at the Lezama Palace (Martín García 344), where the IGE works, an agency in charge of Adrián González. Each candidate is assigned a number. The first raffle defines where the candidates will be, and the second, the order of interventions and questions in a package. Each package has an opening order for presentation, who asks the questions and a closing order.
The proposal of the Buenos Aires electoral body was presented to the representatives of the political parties at an audience that was held in the Buenos Aires Legislature. He obtained 8 votes in favor and 9 against parties that requested variants in the characteristics of the debate presented by the Institute. However, unlike what happens in the screens hearing that was held 10 days ago, in the absence of agreement between the parties, the final decision falls to the IGE.
The candidates headed by the lists of the 17 alliances and political spaces that will be presented on May 18 are the following: Silvia Lospendato for the space of the Buenos Aires ruling baptized “Buenos Aires first”; the current presidential spokesman, Manuel Adornifor freedom it advances; The libertarian Ramiro Marraexpelled from the LLA, will be presented with “freedom and order”; Leandro Santoro He is the candidate of Peronism and the Kirchnerism that are in the same list that bears as a name “is now Buenos Aires”; Juan Abal Medinasupported by the movement avoids with the name “fair, free and sovereign”; By principles and values, space referenced with Guillermo Moreno, it will apply Alejandro Kim; he former head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larretawill be presented outside the PRO with the “Let’s return Buenos Aires” alliance; The Civic-Ari coalition takes national Deputy Paula Oliveto as the first candidate under the name “is with you”; The university leader Lucille “Lula” Levy It is the one who heads for evolution; The liberal legislator Yamil Santoro will compete under the so -called Libertarian Porteña Union; The Left Front leads to the national deputy Vanina Biasi as head of the list; Federico Winokur, Candidate of the New MAS, heads the list of “The Left in the city”; the leader of the Argentine Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Union Marcelo Peretta It is presented by the plural movement; The MID leads to Ricardo Caruso Lombardi first candidate; The engineer María Eva Koutsovitis Heads the confluence list; César bondini It is presented by the Liberal Patriot Front, and the former libertarian Mila Zurbriggen It will compete for the New Generation Movement.
As the step were suspended in the city this year, there will be a single general choice for the election of future Buenos Aires legislators on May 18, in which the system of Single Electronic Ballow (BUE)whose design generated controversy among the political spaces for the location of the candidates on the screen.
