Manzur filed an amparo to be a candidate for vice governor of Tucumán

Juan Manzur went to court to be a candidate in the next provincial elections in Tucumán. The current cabinet chief and governor on leave seeks to run in 2023 as vice president of the current president, Osvaldo Jaldo.He finds the main obstacle in the Tucumán Constitution: it happens that the magna carta prohibits both the governor and his vice president from running for a third term. But it says nothing about the governor running for the second-highest office in the continuing election to his second term. The national official points to that “gray” to be able to compete.” Article 90 of the Constitution of Tucumán expressly prohibits the re-election of the governor and vice governor to their respective positions after having served two consecutive terms,” the amparo said. “What the Provincial Constitution does not provide,” he continued, “is the alternative that the governor can aspire to the vice governorship, thus resulting in the need to clear any doubt on the matter is, clearly, unpostponable.” Therefore, Manzur said, “it becomes imperative to throw away all doubt and uncertainty in order to avoid the existence of maneuvers of all kinds, tending to prevent respect for the popular will within the framework of a rule of law.” The governor on leave assured that his position is about putting an end to a normative omission that brings with it an irremediable injury on the possibility of running as a candidate for vice governor of the Province, within the framework of the electoral process that will take place next year in our Province. ” He also confirmed his intention to run for vice governor of Tucumán, as it transpired in recent weeks. Manzur assumed his second term as governor of Tucumán in December 2019. In 2021, President Alberto Fernández summoned him to take over as Chief of Cabinet, after the shock caused in the Government by the defeat in the legislative PASO. But in recent days, the version began to circulate that the coordinating minister would leave the cabinet between December 2021 and February 2022 to face the campaign in his province, ahead of the elections to be held on May 14.

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