Argentina will elect 14 legislators; on the 21st in Chile there are general elections, the same day Venezuela will have sectional elections and on the 28th, Honduras will have general elections.
Nicaragua was the first country to complete its controversial and contested electoral process this November in which President Daniel Ortega won his fifth term. For this same month, another four Latin American countries are expected to go to the polls, ending the elections scheduled for 2021 in the region, held for another year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The next one will be Argentina, which will elect legislators on November 14. On Sunday the 21st it is the turn of Chile, which will have general elections, the same day in Venezuela the vote will be held to elect municipal and regional authorities, and on Sunday the 28th, Honduras will have general elections.
“Despite the similar timing of the voting, the elections could not be more different, from a bogus contest in Nicaragua that has seen almost the entire opposition arrested to Chile’s race of newcomers and changing candidates. With slow economic growth, gradual vaccination campaigns and a persistent pandemic, the new leaders of Latin America will have a difficult task ahead of them ”, points out the Americas Society / Council of the Americas in its article One month, four very different elections in America Latin.
In the case of Argentina, 34.33 million voters will elect 124 seats in the 257-member Chamber of Deputies and 24 seats in the 72-member Senate.
The results of the PASO legislative primaries on September 12, in which turnout was 67%, showed that the president’s coalition Alberto Fernandez it will be difficult to get seats.
The opposition coalition, Together for Change, won almost 47% of the vote compared to the 27% achieved by the ruling Frente de Todos. The apathy of young people towards the traditional political class also crystallized in a strong support for the most extreme options, as was the case of the libertarian Javier Milei, who obtained 13.66% of the vote in Buenos Aires.
Midterm elections are considered a type of informal referendum on the Government of the day and Their results can give an idea of what can happen in the 2023 presidential elections.
What happened in the PASO also caused several ministers in Fernández’s cabinet to present their resignations, reflecting divisions within his coalition.
Currently, the Frente de Todos has the majority in the Senate, while the opposition controls the Lower House of a country that lives between restrictions due to COVID-19, the economic crisis, inflation and where 42% of its people live for below the poverty line.
In the case of Chile – where 15.03 million people are summoned to vote on Sunday 21, although not mandatory – the vote will be presidential, legislative and regional. In addition to the successor of President Sebastián Piñera and the Vice President. The election of 27 of 43 senators, 155 deputies and 302 regional councilors is at stake.
Jose Antonio Kast, from the Republican Party, who has shown concern about immigration and crime, is the one who leads the polls and surpassed Sebastian Sichel, the option of the ruling coalition Chile Vamos.
Based on the polls, it is glimpsed that Kast will face Gabriel Boric, of the I Approve Dignity coalition, in a presidential runoff on December 19. Although it is not ruled out that Yasna Provoste, center-left New Social Pact, may give a surprise.
In the country, the electoral campaign is taking place amidst a social unrest that has been going on since 2019 and was aggravated by the pandemic and during the drafting of the new Constitution, which must be voted on in 2022, and which is drafted, for the most part, by independent and progressive constituents who were elected last May.
That same day, in Venezuela a total of 3,082 positions will be elected, distributed in 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 legislators to the Legislative Councils and 2,471 councilors.
These elections will be attended, for the first time since 2017, by the bloc of opposition parties, including the one led by Juan Guaidó, after requesting abstention in the 2018 presidential elections, and the 2020 parliamentary elections, in which Chavismo obtained 92 % of deputies, collects EFE.
The elections will also be monitored by more than 100 observers from the European Union (EU) and others from the Carter Center.
Honduras will be the last this year to go to the polls on Sunday 28 in a general election in which the president, 128 members of the National Congress, 298 mayors, 2,142 councilors and 20 members of the Central American Parliament must be elected.
In the country, as in Chile, voting is not mandatory, 5.18 million Hondurans are called to vote.
The two consecutive terms of the president Juan Orlando Hernandez are coming to an end on January 27, 2022, as he decided not to seek reelection. In recent months, he was punctuated by the life sentence for drug trafficking that his brother Tony received in the United States in March.
Three weeks before the elections, the presidential candidate of the Libertad y Refundación (Libre) party, Xiomara Castro, wife of former president Manuel Zelaya, who was overthrown on June 28, 2009, surpasses Nasry Asfura, of the ruling National Party, and Yani Rosenthal, from Liberal, the second opposition force, according to opinion polls.
Castro will seek for the third time to be president of Honduras, after losing the 2013 and 2017 elections, the last one yielding his candidacy to Salvador Nasralla, in a failed alliance, although both argue that the victory “stole” Hernández.
The situation in the country is uncertain because, according to analysts, no candidate will accept defeat, at least between Castro and Asfura. (I)
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