Elections in Chaco 2023: the elections opened to elect the new governor and Capitanich has already voted

As of 8 this Sunday, September 17, the general elections began in Chaco to choose the next governor of the province, in elections in which provincial legislators and municipal authorities of 67 districts will also be elected. For the provincial executive, the main candidates who will contest the election are Governor Jorge Capitanich for the Chaco Front and the provincial deputy of the UCR Leandro Zdero, for Together for Change (JxC). The list of seven candidates who are going for governor is completed with the Peronists Gustavo Martínez, current mayor of Resistencia (Current of Renewed Expression), and former vice governor Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff (Integrating Front), Germán Báez of the Partido del Obrero, José Galassi of Libertarios en Acción and Alfredo Rodríguez of La Libertad Avanza.Chaco has a total of 998,377 national voters and 878 foreign voters who are qualified to vote and who are eligible to vote and who will elect new authorities for governor and vice, 16 provincial deputies, mayors and councilors of 67 municipalities with the exception of the towns of Makalle, Resistencia and Quitilipi that will hold their municipal elections on November 5, 2023.It is expected that at 6 p.m., immediately after voting closes, a press conference of authorities of the Executive Branch will be held to provide details about election day. Jorge Capitanich, Governor of Chaco | Source: NA. The current governor, who is also running for re-election, voted punctually at 8 a.m. at School 41 “Maestro Ricardo A. Ivancovich” in the provincial capital, where he said: “We are very expectant. Today is going to be a day of joy, of hope, in which the people of Chaco are going to cast their vote.” In turn, Capitanich assessed that voter turnout will be higher than the provincial PASO elections, and will be between 73% and 75% according to the average of the last five provincial elections. When asked about the electoral strategy, the provincial president said that they held “170 meetings of closeness and proximity in order to constitute a common agenda with the neighbors, so that ours is part of a scenario of permanent work with citizens.” On the other hand, Zdero is scheduled to vote at 10 a.m. at School 336 “Enrique Banchs” of Resistencia.

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