ARGENTINE GENERAL ELECTION, 2007

Argentina will hold 'national presidential and legislative elections' on 28 October, 2007. Several local elections for provincial governors (separate from the national ones) have already taken place, as has the one for Mayor of Buenos Aires, and will continue throughout the year. For the national elections, each of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are considered electoral districts.

Contents

Organization of the elections

Elected governors

List of elected governors

References

External links

Organization of the elections

Elections for a successor to President Néstor Kirchner will be held in October. Confirmed candidates are former president Carlos Menem, former minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna, Elisa Carrió, Ricardo López Murphy and Néstor Pitrola. Kirchner was allowed to pursue one consecutive reelection, but it was announced in late June that Kirchner's wife, Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, will run instead.
In addition to a president, each district will elect a number of members of the Lower House (the Argentine Chamber of Deputies) roughly proportional to their population. Eight districts (Tierra del Fuego, Entre Rios, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Salta, Río Negro, Neuquén and Buenos Aires City) will also elect members to the Upper House of Congress (the Argentine Senate); as usual, three senators will be elected (two for the majority, one for the first minority).
In most provinces, the national elections will be conducted in parallel with local ones, whereby a number of municipalities elect legislative officials (''concejales'') and in some cases also a mayor (or the equivalent executive post). Each provincial election follows local regulations and some, such as Tucumán, will hold municipal elections on other dates in the year.

Elected governors

The elections for governors took place in ten provinces in September, which were won in 6 provinces by Kirchner's Front for Victory. Hermes Binner was elected governor of Santa Fe, defeating the Peronist Rafael Bielsa, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kirchner. Binner thus became the first Socialist governor in Argentina's history, and the first non-Justicialist to rule the rather wealthy Santa Fe province (assuming 21% of Argentina's exports — although almost 1/3 of the local population lives under the poverty threshold Pour la première fois, un socialiste est élu gouverneur d'une province argentine, ''Le Monde'', 4 September 2007 ) since 1983 Ganó Binner y el socialismo sacó al PJ de la Gobernación de Santa Fe, ''Clarin'', 3 September 2007 . Center-left Fabiana Ríos (ARI) became the first woman to be elected governor of Tierra del Fuego, while the right-wing Mauricio Macri was elected Mayor of Buenos Aires (a similar office to governor) in June 2007. .

List of elected governors

''Source: Clarin, 3 September 2007. Corrientes Province and Santiago del Estero Province do not have elections for governors in 2007, as they already took place in 2005.''

★ Catamarca, 11 March 2007 — Eduardo Brizuela del Moral (Radical Civic Union, UCR, 56,7%)

★ Entre Ríos, 18 March 2007 — Sergio Urribarri (Front for Victory, PJ, 47,1%)

★ Río Negro, 20 March 2007 — Miguel Saiz (UCR, re-elected, 46,3%)

★ Neuquén, 3 June 2007 — Jorge Sapag (Movimiento Popular Neuquino, MPN, 46,7%)

★ Buenos Aires (Mayor), 24 June 2007 — Mauricio Macri (PRO, 61% - ballotage)

★ Tierra del Fuego, 24 June 2007 — Fabiana Ríos (Support for an Egalitarian Republic, ARI, center-left, 52% - ballotage)

★ San Juan, 12 August 2007 — José Luis Gioja (Front for Victory, PJ, 61,2%)

★ La Rioja, 19 August 2007 — Luis Beder Herrera (Frente Riojano, PJ, 41,1%)

★ San Luis, 19 August 2007 — Alberto Rodríguez Saá (Front for Victory, PJ, 82,8%)

★ Tucumán, 26 August 2007 — José Alperovich (Front for Victory, PJ, 82,6%)

★ Santa Fe, 2 September 2007 — Hermes Binner (Progressive, Civic and Social Front, PS, 48,59%)

★ Córdoba, June 2007 — Juan Schiaretti (PJ)? (controversy: Luis Juez, of the ''Frente Cívico y Social'' (35,95%), has accused the Peronist candidate (37,06%) of "electoral fraud" ^[1])

★ Chaco, 16 September 2007 —

★ Chubut, 16 September 2007 —

★ Jujuy, 28 October 2007 —

★ Buenos Aires Province, 28 October 2007 —

★ Misiones, 28 October 2007 —

★ Santa Cruz, 28 October 2007 —

★ Mendoza, 28 October 2007 —

★ La Pampa, 28 October 2007 —

★ Formosa, 28 October 2007 —

★ Salta, 28 October 2007 —

References

1. Más polémica en Córdoba: Schiaretti dice que su triunfo es "inobjetable" y Juez que le "robaron" la elección, ''El Clarin'', 3 September 2007

External links

★ National Electoral Direction - Ministry of Interior of Argentina.

★ Argentina Elections 2007.