Results of this election will define the balance of forces in Parliament and support for the president.
The electoral colleges of Argentina closed at 6:00 p.m. local time this Sunday, in which legislative elections were held to renew half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the seats in the Senate.
Some 34.3 million Argentines were called to elect 127 deputies -of 257 that make up the Lower House- for a four-year term, while in 8 provinces they will also have to vote to elect a total of 24 senators -of the 72 that make up the Upper House – for the next six years.
According to data from the National Electoral Chamber, at 5:00 p.m. 64.5% of the electoral roll had voted
After the closing of the polling stations, the Interior Minister, Eduardo de Pedro, told the media that the day “proceeded with total normality,” and pointed out that a voting percentage of around 71 to 72% is projected.
The Argentine Government, responsible for the provisional scrutiny that will take place this Sunday night, anticipates the dissemination of the first official results for 9:00 p.m. local time.
Election day passed normally and in good weather in most of the vast Argentine territory and a more flexible protocol was applied than in the primaries last September, due to the advance in vaccination and the improvement of the epidemiological situation.
These mandatory legislative elections for voters aged 18 to 69 are the first faced by President Alberto Fernández since coming to power at the end of 2019.
The results of these elections will define the balance of forces in Parliament.
In the September primaries, which served to elect the candidates for deputies and senators, the opposition coalition of Together for Change obtained more than 40% of the votes in the whole country, while the ruling Front of All reaped little more than 30%.
In the event that these results are repeated, the ruling party would lose its own quorum in the Senate and could reduce its presence in Deputies to practically be equal numerically or, even below, the block of Together for Change.
Four districts are key because they are the most populated in the country: the provinces of Buenos Aires (37% of the national register), Córdoba (8.69%), Santa Fe (8.06%) and the Argentine capital (7.43%). ).
Nearly 90,000 members of the armed and security forces provided custody to the more than 100,000 voting tables distributed in at least 17,000 schools and other precincts throughout the country, which were opened at 8:00 for the electoral act.
While waiting for the provisional results, the militants of the official front Frente de Todos have set up their “bunker” in a cultural and events center in the capital’s Chacarita neighborhood, while Juntos por el Cambio has it in the Costa Salguero convention center. . (I)
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