Elections: Who ran in the 2019 PASO and what were the results?

This Sunday will be defined the candidates who will compete for the presidency on October 22. The political scenario on which these elections will take place is very different from that of four years ago. In the 2019 PASO, ten pre-candidates for the presidency were presented, distributed in an equal number of political fronts. Together for Change was running for re-election to then-President Mauricio Macri. And Peronist Miguel Angel Pichetto was his running mate. In the opposition, the Frente de Todos presented the Fernández-Fernández formula, integrated by Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.La formula of the ruling party, Mauricio Macri and Miguel Ángel Pichetto. Photo: Télam.Both spaces presented unique candidates. Today, not only have the roles been reversed, but both the ruling party and the opposition are settling internal candidacies. As a bet on the ‘wide avenue of the middle’, the non-Kirchnerist Peronism, under the brand Federal Consensus, postulated the binomial integrated by Roberto Lavagna and Juan Manuel Urtubey.Cristina Kirchner, Axel Kicillof and Alberto Fernández celebrate the victory. Photo: Télam.In those elections, the two main coalitions totaled almost 80% of the valid votes. Three other spaces managed to overcome the threshold of 1.5% of the votes to access the general elections of that year. Nicolás del Caño and Romina del Plá was the formula presented by the Left Front; Juan José Gómez Centurión and Cynthia Hotton integrated the binomial of NOS; and José Luis Espert was the pre-candidate for president of Unite for Freedom and Dignity, with José Luis Rosales as his running mate. Roberto Lavagna. Photo: Federal Consensus.On the other hand, there were four fronts that failed to overcome the filter established by the PASO. Thus, Manuela Castañeira and Eduardo Mulhall (Movimiento al Socialismo); Alejandro Biondini and Enrique Venturino (Frente Patriota); Raúl Albarracín and Sergio Pastore (Movimiento de Acción Vecinal); and José Antonio Romero Feris and Guillermo Sueldo (Autonomist Party) fell by the wayside.

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