It was confirmed that candidates will not have to undergo a psychotechnician

The National Electoral Chamber (CNE) confirmed that the candidates who will face each other in the runoff this Sunday, November 19, Sergio Massa and Javier Milei, will not be required to take a psychotechnical exam. This option had been raised by the Minister of Economy, considering a collective injunction that had been presented before the Primary Elections.” A president has to have mental balance,” Massa said in the third presidential debate and the comment led to a celebratory “uhhhhh” in a sector of the auditorium, after which the Peronist candidate finished: “I offer you to go and do a psychotechnician together.” With that premise, in the search to expose Milei, the head of the economic portfolio continued: “Tell people why they didn’t renew your internship at the Central Bank when you worked there.” Prior to the October 22 general elections, María Valeria Viglianchino, a citizen of the Buenos Aires town of Mar Chiquita, filed a collective injunction for the then five candidates (Massa, Milei, Patricia Bullrich, Juan Schiaretti and Myriam Bregman) to undergo a psychotechnical examination to determine if they were fit to hold the position. The national electoral prosecutor, Ramiro Gonzalez, and the electoral judge, Maria Servini, rejected the request. “It is inadmissible, in the absence of a regulatory regulation that establishes it,” they said. This decision was appealed, but the judges of the National Electoral Chamber, Santiago Corcuera, Daniel Bejas and Alberto Dalla Via dismissed it again.

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