in the beginning of the election year, Neuquén province first elected Governor in a political context that involves the national stage of the presidential elections. Note that there is no second round, so this Sunday will be known to the winner. The candidates officially, there are nine candidates who applied for the Governor’s office. However, according to the polls reflecting the intention of voting by citizens, there are just three that are most likely to be elected. Omar Gutiérrez: current Governor of Neuquén and candidate of the Popular Movement Neuquén (MPN), party that governs the province since 1962 uninterruptedly.
Omar Gutiérrez Ramón Rioseco: candidate of the front Neuquén-unit public. Former Mayor of the town of Cultral-Co.
Ramón Quiroga Rioseco Horacio “Pechi”: Mayor of the city of Neuquén. Candidate of change.
Horacio “Pechi” Quiroga the impact at the national level elections in Neuquén can be used as the first test of the most representative in the country and both change spaces as unit benefit or disbeliever, as appropriate, of the results of this Sunday. The various candidates over the last months sought to “regionalize” or “nationalized” the campaign according to their own strategies. Gutierrez election campaign lived a change of strategy in November where objected publicly to the measures taken by the national Government, after having shown approaches with Mauricio Macri, and took a series of measures for the province to They explain that disagreement: rise in subsidies to transportation and gas, and the end of 2018 with a wage increase of more than 48% for employees of the State, even with agreements signed with unions until radical 2020.El “Pechi” Quiroga suffered internal of the space of change between the UCR and the Pro, which harmed the national projection. In addition, he holds a great popularity in the electorate of the city of Neuquén, so that its strategy was not based on an approach to the President and vice versa, despite belonging to the same space. Rioseco, for its part, had the explicit support of Cristina Kirchner in the last days of the campaign with a spot in which the former President put his own voice to the story, but not displayed publicly along with the candidate in any of the acts.
Up to the month of December polls, surveys reflected an intention to vote divided proportionately among the three main candidates. But between January and February the trend is polarized between the Governor Gutiérrez and Rioseco.La peculiarity of these surveys is that they were carried out during the summer. Therefore, the margin of error is an enigma if you consider that the surveys occurred at the time that more citizens are on holiday. Another important factor is given by the building Commission of the province of Neuquén. They are populations of less than 800 inhabitants, which together represent more than 23 thousand electors (4% of the register), where the technical complications make the polls make it difficult to know their intention to vote. Ballot only electronic is the first time that the electronic single-ticket system is implemented at the provincial level, but it had already been used in the year 2015 in the elections of the city of Neuquén with great approval the electorate despite criticism of specialists on its security flaws. The provider of the necessary infrastructure is the same that you did in the elections of the city of Buenos Aires in the year 2015 or Salta in the 201: the MSA group.
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