What's The Dealio With Argentine Primary Elections???

[Joe]

Primary elections are suppose to allow people to choose their favorite candidate within a party.

Are any of the parties fielding more than one candidate?

Any other country besides Argentina where there is only one candidate in the primary election?

http://www.reuters.c...N0OY1MV20150618

 

[el_expatriado]

That's why it is useless to vote in the Frente Para La Victoria primary -- they are fielding just one candidate. All the other parties are fielding multiple candidates. The radical party has Carrio, Sanz, and Macri. The Peronists have Massa and De La Sota. Even the communists have their own primary between Nicolas Del Caño and Jorge Altamira.

So you're wrong, the FPV is the only party that is not going to field 2 candidates. The PASO lets the voters participate in any of the these political parties' primaries and vote for whatever candidate they like. So, even voters who are going to vote FPV in October could vote in one of the other primaries this Sunday.

Saludos!

 

[Joe]

That's why it is useless to vote in the Frente Para La Victoria primary -- they are fielding just one candidate. All the other parties are fielding multiple candidates. The radical party has Carrio, Sanz, and Macri. The Peronists have Massa and De La Sota. Even the communists have their own primary between Nicolas Del Caño and Jorge Altamira.

So you're wrong, the FPV is the only party that is not going to field 2 candidates. The PASO lets the voters participate in any of the these political parties' primaries and vote for whatever candidate they like. So, even voters who are going to vote FPV in October could vote in one of the other primaries this Sunday.

Saludos!

Thanks, just heard a NPR broadcast where their "Argentine expert" said that all Argentine primary elections had only one candidate... So much for journalistic accuracy!!!

Thanks for a more accurate reading.

 

[AmigoArtistico]

That's why it is useless to vote in the Frente Para La Victoria primary -- they are fielding just one candidate. All the other parties are fielding multiple candidates. The radical party has Carrio, Sanz, and Macri. The Peronists have Massa and De La Sota. Even the communists have their own primary between Nicolas Del Caño and Jorge Altamira.

So you're wrong, the FPV is the only party that is not going to field 2 candidates. The PASO lets the voters participate in any of the these political parties' primaries and vote for whatever candidate they like. So, even voters who are going to vote FPV in October could vote in one of the other primaries this Sunday.

Saludos!

Actually, it's just a bit more complicated. Parties can organize into electoral alliances. For example, Macri is in the PRO party (as most of you probably know), Sanz is UCR (radical), and Carrió is CC (Coalición Cívica party), but these parties have agreed (in most, but not all of the country, and at various levels -- president, senators and deputies) to enter the PASO together. The winner is then, in theory (this is Argentina), backed by the other parties in the electoral alliance.

Also, the primary election for all parties takes place on the same day, and voting is obligatory (so even if your candidate is Scioli, who has no competitor in the PASO, you're still obliged to go vote.

 

[Rich One]

Primary elections are suppose to allow people to choose their favorite candidate within a party.

Are any of the parties fielding more than one candidate?

Any other country besides Argentina where there is only one candidate in the primary election?

http://www.reuters.c...N0OY1MV20150618

Its a terrible cost for the country to have a primary with one Candidate like FPV in Capital and many provinces.... ! millions spent in propaganda and then again more money spent for the Real Election.

 

[nkotb]

The PASO system (Primarias Abiertas, Simultaneas y Obligatorias) was introduced in 2009 by Cristina to avoid electoral surprises in a country where opinion polls are notoriously unreliable. With obligatory voting, the primary system gives politicos a pretty good idea of who will vote for whom in the real elections, so you can think of it as an early warning system for incumbents. Viewed from this perspective, the set-up would make sense even if there were just one candidate per party (which isn't the case now).

 

[AmigoArtistico]

The PASO system (Primarias Abiertas, Simultaneas y Obligatorias) was introduced in 2009 by Cristina to avoid electoral surprises in a country where opinion polls are notoriously unreliable. With obligatory voting, the primary system gives politicos a pretty good idea of who will vote for whom in the real elections, so you can think of it as an early warning system for incumbents. Viewed from this perspective, the set-up would make sense even if there were just one candidate per party (which isn't the case now).

Where, exactly, did you get this information? (Not the year that the legislation was passed, but the rest of what you said.) Because it seems to be just your opinion on the subject, presented as if it were fact.

 

[Rich One]

I would vote for Vilma Ripoll a true representative of the workers and the left. Frown on these millionaires that live in Puerto Madero and their children go to Private schools and Colleges Abroad. they Claim to represent the workers class Nac&Pop B)

 

[mikic007]

If I could, I would vote for someone who is not multimillionaire in dollars. Such person even exists?

 

[Rich One]

If I could, I would vote for someone who is not multimillionaire in dollars. Such person even exists?

Well... Scioli is a multimillionaire as well as as Macri, CFK and the rest. But they have The People in their Hearts

What a nerve Teflon face Scioli promises how many roads he will pave, sewage, hospitals, housing to be built.... etc.

Stupid question... Why didn't they accomplish all that in the past 12 years in power....???
Suckers are born everyday.