The candidate of the Together for Change coalition (center-right) to govern the City of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, will be the new mayor of the Argentine capital after the resignation of the official candidate, Leandro Santoro, to attend a second round.
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In a statement released this Tuesday on the social networks of the Unión por la Patria (Peronism) coalition, Santoro said he made “a realistic reading of the electoral result”, whose final scrutiny began this Tuesday, which is why he considered it “insense” to force a runoff and will focus on supporting the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, to achieve the Presidency of the South American country.
Jorge Macri will be the next mayor of Buenos Aires after winning on Sunday – in the provisional scrutiny carried out by the Executive and without legal validity – with 49.61% of the votes, ahead of Santoro (32.30%) and the candidate of La Libertad Avanza (far-right), Ramiro Marra (13.89%).
In his statement, Santoro thanked the support of the 600,000 Buenos Aires residents who opted for his candidacy in the first round of elections on Sunday and considered that this result “drives him to continue building an alternative to Macrism in the City.”
The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the country’s fourth electoral district (behind the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Santa Fe), has been governed by the Argentine center-right since 2007, when its cousin and founder of the current Republican Proposal (Pro) , Mauricio Macri, became head of the Buenos Aires Government.
Macri left office in 2015, after serving two terms as head of the city government, the maximum provided by law.
He was succeeded by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who has governed the capital since 2015.
Both former mayors tried their luck in national politics after their time in the government of the Autonomous City, but only Macri managed to preside over Argentina between 2015 and 2019.
For his part, Rodríguez Larreta competed in August of this year with Patricia Bullrich to lead the Together for Change coalition towards the Argentine Presidency, but lost to the former Minister of Security.
Now, a new member of the Macri family accesses a position that is comparable to that of any provincial governor in Argentina.
The 58-year-old businessman Jorge Macri was a provincial deputy and mayor of the town of Vicente López, north of the capital. Precisely, this was one of the points that supported a challenge to his candidacy, since the Buenos Aires Constitution establishes that, in addition to being born in Buenos Aires, the candidate must have lived there in the previous five years.
Although it does not meet either of the two requirements, the Superior Court of Justice endorsed its presence on the lists.
On Sunday, after the first results were known – which could not be finalized due to the narrow margin that separated Macri from obtaining 50% of the votes, necessary to avoid the second round – the future head of government thanked the different forces that They make up Together for Change.
“We want to continue defending what we have achieved for 16 years, despite not having been lucky enough to work with an aligned government except in four of them,” Macri said.
EFE
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