The party of the President of the left center Alberto Fernandez was sanctioned in the polls, two years of the next presidential election of October 2023.
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The legislative election of Sunday, November 14 confirmed, on the outline, the tendency announced by the open primaries of the 12th of September: the Party Frente de Todos (“Front of all”) of Péronist President Alberto Fernandez is preceded by The right center opposition in the majority of the provinces, according to the projections, based on 98% of the discounted votes.
While his left center coalition initially sought forward to the lower house – where she did not have the majority – and to maintain his majority in the Senate, the election marks a decline within both rooms, and especially , a loss of control of the Senate. Voters were called upon to renew 127 of the 257 deputies, and 24 of the 72 senators.
“In this new stage, we must give priority to the national agreements” reacted President Alberto Fernandez, in a recorded speech, broadcast Sunday in the evening, calling for “constructive dialogue” and a “fruitful” relationship between executive and parliamentary power. “Millions of Argentines across the country said” Basta “”, welcomed his side Maria Eugenia Vidal, member of the Juntos Por El Cambio opposition member (“set for change”), elected MP, arrival largely in mind in the city of Buenos Aires.
Electoral sanction
A first mandate marked by the pandemic and an extension confinement in the capital and its region, in 2020, as well as a moribund economy planted the decor of this electoral sanction, two years of the presidential election of October 2023. In October, inflation was 41.8%, far beyond the government’s 29% annual target. Poverty concerns 40.6% of the population, according to the latest data from the Argentine Statistical Institute (Indec). The recovery of the economy, with 7.5% planned growth this year according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), remains relative after the fall of nearly 10% of GDP in 2020.
“It is a bad election for the coalition in power, the loss of the majority of the Senate has been unpublished for the peronists since the return to democracy in 1983. They are in a situation of weakening and aging. , without defaulting their leadership, “Federico Zapata, Politist and Director of the Esconsarios Consulting Cabinet.
In the stride of the primary election rout – sort of rehearsal – the cracks crossing the coalition in power had emerged with force, generating a political crisis and a partial ministerial reshuffle, claimed by the vice-president and ex-head State (2007-2015), Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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