With the exception of Malvinas this Sunday all Fuegians go to the polls

For the ninth time since provincialization, the people of Fuegian will define with their vote the leadership of the Provincial Executive Branch for four years, starting next December 17.

12 de May de 2023 11:02

For the Provincial Executive establishment, 3 Alliances and 2 political parties presented candidates for governor and vice president.

For this Sunday's election, there are 147,064 people authorized to vote at the 499 voting stations that will operate between 08:00 and 18:00 in the 56 educational establishments affected by the electoral operation. Of that total of voters, 5,280 are teenagers 16 and 17 years old and 7,179 people over 70 years old, whose attendance at the polls is not mandatory.

In the 220 polling stations of Ushuaia, the 64,941 qualified voters will find an electoral offer for provincial positions made up of 5 ballots for candidates for the Governorship and Vice-Government and another 16 ballots for candidates to occupy the 15 seats in the Legislature, plus 6 ballots with candidates for the Mayor and Vice Mayor and 20 ballots for candidates for the 10 seats on the Deliberative Council.

The 76,006 Rio Grande do Sul voters incorporated into the final registry, in addition to the ballots for candidates for the executive and provincial legislative bodies, will be found in the 253 polling stations set up in that city with 6 ballots for candidates for the Mayor and 19 ballots for candidates to occupy the 9 municipal deliberative seats.

For their part, the 5,707 eligible voters in Tolhuin will be able to elect - in addition to Governor, Vice Governor and Legislators - Mayor among 4 candidates, and 5 Councilors among 10 lists of candidates. In that town there will be 19 voting stations.

The 410 members of the staff of the 7 Antarctic bases must also vote on Sunday for Governor and Vice and Legislators.

The candidates for Governor

For the Provincial Executive class, 3 Alliances and 2 political parties presented candidates for the Governorship and the Vice-Government. For this category there are two mixed formulas, 2 exclusively male and one exclusively female, and in most cases these are applicants who for for the first time they aspire to occupy an Executive position at the provincial level.

The United We Make Future alliance proposes the re-election of the formula made up of Governor Gustavo Melella and Vice Governor Mónica Urquiza .

The alliance Together for Change Tierra del Fuego leads to the duo formed by Senator Pablo Blanco and Deputy Federico Frigerio .

The Left Front and Workers-Unity nominates Lucía Fernández and María Meza .

The Republican Proposal Party (PRO) has as its candidate for Governor the deputy Héctor Stefani and the former Riograd councilor Paulino Rossi.

Meanwhile, the United Republicans formula is made up of Laura Almirón and Sebastián Galdeano.

 

  The candidates for Parliament

To occupy the 15 seats in the Fuegian parliament, 225 regular candidates presented themselves, with more than 105 substitutes, distributed in 16 ballots. Although the system of cross-outs governs this category, the percentage of rejections of a given candidate must exceed 50% of the votes. votes obtained by the ballot of the political party that nominates him for the strike to become effective.   

Of the 15 incumbent legislators (except Bilota (PJ), Rivarola and Trentino de Forja), 12 will seek re-election, but with the particularity that 5 will do so for a political force other than the one they currently represent within parliament. Within The legislative offer includes, among other candidates, 2 former governors (Bertone and Ríos); 3 former legislators (Lechman, Tapia and Carrasco); 5 councilors in office (Pino from Ushuaia and Mora, Von Der Thusen, Campos and Susñar from Rio Grande do Sul); 1 former minister (Aramburu, from the Ríos administration); 4 officials from Mayor Vuoto's cabinet (Ventura, Fonrradona, Manfredotti Guzmán and Carrasco); 3 officials from Mayor Pérez's cabinet.

Forja, a political force led by Governor Melella, has as its first candidates the current legislators Federico Sciurano (UCR), Myriam Martínez (FdT-PJ); Federico Greve (Forja), Andrea Freites (FdT-PJ); Mónica Acosta (Forja) and Ricardo Furlan (PJ).

The Fuegian Popular Movement, a party made up of Vice-Governor Mónica Urquiza, has Damián Löffler as its first candidate. The Rio Grande native is serving his sixth consecutive term as a legislator, having assumed a seat for the first time in 1999. He is supported by Pablo Villegas who will try revalidate his mandate as a parliamentarian for the third time.

Justicialismo, a party chaired by the mayor of Ushuaia, has as its first candidate the councilor and president of the capital's deliberative Juan Carlos Pino; In second place appears the current legislator for the Green Party Victoria Vuoto. In third and fourth place appear two union leaders; Tomás García from UTHGRA and Soledad Rotaris from SUTEF, and in the fifth place the councilor of Río Grande Cintia Susñar.

The Green Party, which closed an electoral agreement with the mayor of Río Grande, leads legislator Laura Colazo in first place, followed by Matías Lapadula (Secretary of Economic Development and Environment of Río Grande).

The list of the Together for Change Tierra del Fuego alliance (made up of the UCR, MID and Civic Coalition) is headed by legislator Liliana Martínez Allende.

The Republican Proposal (PRO) party has María Eugenia Chiarvetto (secretary of Human and Legal Persons during the Bertone government) as its first candidate.

Through the Unity and Reconstruction alliance, former governor and current deputy Rosana Bertone will try for the first time, in her long political career, to access a provincial legislative position.

Another former governor who also aspires to occupy a seat in Parliament is Fabiana Ríos, who heads the list of the Patagonian Social Party.

The Somos Fueguinos Party, meanwhile, has as its first candidate the current Rio Grande City councilor of the citizen party Raúl Von der Thusen, and in second place the businessman and former mopofista legislator Jorge Lechman.

As in the Constituent Convention of Ushuaia, the first candidate of Republicamos Unidos is Agustín Coto.

The Compromiso Fueguino alliance placed leaders from different unions at the top of its list. At the top is the general secretary of the UOM Ushuaia, and former legislator for the Front for Victory, Héctor Tapia.

The Popular Front list leads the councilor of Río Grande Miriam Mora.

The legislative electoral offer is completed with the candidates of the Left Front and Workers-Unity; of the Collective of the Organized Revolutionary Regional Economy –CERRO and the Sol de Mayo Party.

6 binomes to the Ushuaia Municipality

After the reform of the organic charter, for the first time in the history of the city, the Ushuaienses will have to elect a formula for the Municipal Executive. The electoral offer is made up of 6 ballots.

The United We Make the Future alliance is nominating the current mayor Walter Vuoto for a third term, accompanied by the secretary of planning and public investment Gabriela Muñiz Siccardi .

The alliance Together for Change Tierra del Fuego nominates former councilor Tomás Bertotto and Natalia Echazarreta.

The Left Front and Workers-Unity , in clear non-compliance with article 147 of the organic charter which establishes that the formula must respect gender parity, proposes Juan Barrientos Vargas and Carlos Vásquez Figueroa as candidates.

Somos Fueguinos presents the former national representative Liliana Fadul as a candidate for Mayor and the Mopofista councilor Ricardo Garramuño as Vice Mayor.

United Republicans nominates Ricardo Forgione Tibaudín and Natalia Zeballes .

The Collective Party of the Organized Revolutionary Regional Economy (CERRO) offers Nicolás Quidel and Nadia Torres as candidates.

The candidates for the capital's Deliberative Council

There were 20 political forces interested in trying to access one of the 10 seats that the Deliberative Council of Ushuaia will have until it exceeds 90 thousand inhabitants, at which time a new and final seat will have to be added.   As the municipal electoral regime contemplates the preference system, the ordering of candidates proposed by the parties can be modified depending on the will of the electorate.

The ruling party at the city level has councilors Laura Ávila and Gabriel de la Vega in the first two places on its list.

 

Who is also seeking re-election is councilor Javier Branca, who heads the City party list.

Repeating the experience of the constituent convention, the Forja party - the ruling party at the provincial level - once again heads its list of candidates with the mopofista Fernando Oyarzún Santana.

The Fueguino Popular Movement has as its first candidate the lawyer Francisco Vladimir Espeche.

The parties that make up Together for Change seek to recover the lost ground in terms of legislative representation in the capital's deliberative elections with the candidacies of María Belén Montes de Oca.

For its part, the PRO seeks to access the council with María Victoria Pérez. Somos Fueguinos intends to seduce the electorate with Valter Tavarone, one of the three conventional members of that party who intervened in the reform process of the Organic Charter of Ushuaia.

To these are added those of the Social Patagónico; Federal Commitment; United Republicans; Integration and Work; Reformist Bases for the Claim and Inclusion of Social Organizations; Collective of the Organized Revolutionary Regional Economy (CERRO); Meeting for Democracy and Equity; Popular front; May Sun; South, and the Unity and Reconstruction alliances; Left Front and Workers-Fuegian Unity and Commitment.

Those who go for the Mayor's Office and the Deliberative Council of Río Grande

As in the Fuegian capital, in the northern provincial city there are 6 political forces interested in contesting the leadership of the municipal Executive.

The United Alliance We Make the Future as a candidate for the re-election of Martín Pérez .

The alliance Together for Change Tierra del Fuego to the radical Fernando Baccicchetto .

The Left Front and Workers – Unity proposes Dante Acosta.

The Republican Proposal party (PRO) has as its candidate José Luis Alvarez , Minister of Government of the Province during the Bertone administration.

Republicans United has as its candidate Julio Mercado , another provincial official during the Bertone administration.

The Federal Compromiso party nominates Moisés Solorza , former Secretary of Energy of the Province.

At the Rio Grande deliberative, there are 19 political forces that presented lists to occupy the 9 seats in dispute.   Unlike what happens in Ushuaia, in Río Grande the sheet list governs.

The local ruling party, led by the Provincia Grande party, plays strongly in the legislative elections since Mayor Pérez promotes a list full of officials from his cabinet, headed by Alejandra Arce, Secretary of Women, Gender and Diversity.

The provincial ruling party has as its first candidate Federico Runín, Secretary of Political Representation of the provincial government in Río Grande.

The Justicialista party decided to nominate the current councilor Walter Abregu as the first candidate.

Meeting for Democracy and Equity also seeks that current councilor Javier Calisaya can retain his seat for another 4 years.

The Fuegian Popular Movement has Juan Matías Löffler as the head of the list.

Meanwhile, the Green Party promotes the re-election of the current Mopofist councilor Pablo Llancapani.

For its part, Together for Change seeks to capture the vote of the people of Rio Grande do Sul with the figure of Andrés Ybars.

The PRO promotes Carlos Romualdo Ponce as councilor.

The total of 171 incumbent candidates is completed with the United Republic lists; We are Fuegian; Unity and Reconstruction; Left Front and Workers – Unity; Collective of the Organized Revolutionary Regional Economy (CERRO); Federal Commitment; Fuegian Commitment; Popular front; Participation, commitment and Work; Patagonian Social Party and South. The one who finally gave up presenting candidates was the Más Río Grande alliance, made up of the Victory Party and the Solidarity Party.

The Tolhuin postulants

For the Mediterranean municipality there are four candidacies presented for the Executive.

The United We Make the Future alliance is betting on the re-election of Mayor Daniel Harrington .

Together for Change proposes Héctor Barella .

The United Republicans party leads Alejandrino Salva.

Meanwhile, the Sol de Mayo party presents as a candidate Claudio Queno , three-time mayor of Tolhuin who was defeated in 2019 by Harrington.

As in the rest of the collegiate bodies, the legislative electoral offer is also very broad in Tolhuin, since in the town of less than 10 thousand inhabitants there are 10 political forces that nominated candidates to occupy the largest number of the 5 seats of the Deliberative Council.

The País party seeks to repeat the good result achieved in 2019, when it was the force with the most votes for the Executive and the Council, and for this it has Víctor Nacusse as its first candidate.

The Justicialista, the party to which the current mayor Harrington refers politically, has a list that seeks the re-election of councilors Rodríguez Ojeda, Taberna and Dávila.

While the Sol de Mayo Party promotes the re-election of councilors Janete Alderete and Muñoz.

Added to these candidatures are those of Forja; Popular front; Together for Change; Fuegian Popular Movement; Republican Proposal (PRO); United Republicans and Unity and Reconstruction.

 

As it does not yet have an Organic Charter, in electoral matters Tolhuin continues to be governed by provincial regulations, so the system of strikeouts is also applied for the election of councilors.

Schools without classes

The Ministry of Education ordered that the educational institutions affected by the 2023 provincial and municipal elections on Sunday, May 14, suspend their activities in the morning shift on Monday, May 15, due to cleaning tasks. In the afternoon shift, classes will be taught. normal.

In the city of Ushuaia, the measure covers the Don Bosco Schools, the Multipurpose Art Center, and Olga.B.

By Agenda Malvinas

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