Elections 2023: San Luis, Tucumán, Mendoza and Corrientes go to the polls

The 2023 electoral calendar has an important stop this Sunday, June 11, in which four provinces will go to the polls: San Luis and Tucumán elect governor, Mendoza defines candidates in the PASO and Corrientes renews legislative seats. At 8:00 a.m., polls opened in St. Louis, where 418,689 citizens will elect their next governor. In addition to the highest provincial authority, local deputies and senators, municipal mayors, commissioners and councilors will be elected. Eight candidates are vying for the governorship, among them, the official Jorge Fernández, who will seek to succeed the current governor, Alberto Rodríguez Saá. For his part, the national deputy and former governor, Claudio Poggi, appears as the main opposition candidate representing Together for Change.It should be remembered that in the elections of San Luis the Law of Slogans will be applied. How does it work? The system of simultaneous and cumulative double voting allows each party to constitute a slogan that can be composed of many sub-slogans, that is, different lists within the same alliance. At the time of the scrutiny, the winner will be the candidate of the slogan that obtained the most votes, regardless of whether or not he was the most chosen by the people. TucumánWith delays in some schools in the capital, elections began in Tucumán. 1,309,648 citizens will elect governor and vice governor, 49 provincial legislators and 25 alternates (19 from the capital, 18 from the west zone and 12 from the east), 19 mayors, 184 councilors and 93 communal commissioners. Osvaldo Jaldo heads the official list that will seek to continue the legacy of Juan Manzur, who had to lower his candidacy for vice governor due to a precautionary measure presented by the opposition to which the Supreme Court gave place. In this way, Manzur ran from the election and left his place in the formula to Miguel Acevedo.La main opposition list, which has the support of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, is headed by the radical national deputy Roberto Sánchez, who is accompanied by the mayor of the Tucumán capital, Germán Alfaro.MendozaDuring a day in which the single paper ballot will be released, Mendoza holds the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) to choose its candidates for governor for the provincial vote on September 24. In addition, it will be defined who will compete for the positions of vice governor, 19 provincial senators and 24 provincial deputies in four electoral sections and mayors and councilors in 11 departments that decided not to split their municipal elections. One of the main fronts that will have internal will be that of the ruling party, in which the senator and former governor, Alfredo Cornejo, will face the also radical Luis Petri.CorrientesFrom 8.00, Corrientes launched its election day, in which 20 seats will be renewed in the provincial Legislature (5 senators, 15 provincial deputies). as well as councillors in 64 municipalities. The ruling ECO front will seek to maintain hegemony in the provincial legislative bodies, in competition with the Frente de Todos and the Ganemos Corrientes front.

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