Parliamentary elections are held in the city of Buenos Aires
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Published at: 18/05/2025 01:41 PM
At least 5.6 million Argentinians, residents of the capital, are called to vote this Sunday to elect representatives to the parliament of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), in a local election that will allow 30 of the 60 seats in the single-chamber legislature that creates the laws of the district to be renewed.
From 8:00 to 18:00 local time, the polls will be open to choose from 17 lists of candidates, who will be allocated seats in proportion to the flow of votes received.
The elections are a litmus test for the national ruling party and the La Libertad Avanza party, founded by President Javier Milei, in its dispute over hegemony between the Argentine right and the party of former president Mauricio Macri, ahead of the national legislative elections scheduled for the month of October.
For more than a decade, the city has been a stronghold of the Republican Proposal (PRO), the party of former President Macri, which currently holds 15 of the 30 seats in dispute and is now running under the name of the Primero Buenos Aires alliance. The second force is the Peronist party Union for the Fatherland, which is playing 8 places.
Milei's party failed to reach an agreement to attend the elections with a single list: the rift between the two forces has deepened and the divisions have become more evident in recent weeks.
As was the case in the capital's 2023 primaries, voters will face a highly fragmented election and will once again use the electronic suffrage system with a single ballot, a mechanism that was criticized for the incidence of technical problems that caused delays in the voting process, counting of the polls, transmission and aggregation of electoral data.
Mazo News Team