Posts from Splinter in thread „Mid-term elections 2021“

BBC Mundo has published an excellent article on the K defeat and if you open it in Chrome, right click on a white space and then hit translate to English, if you prefer.

Qué hay detrás de la "histórica" derrota del kirchnerismo en las primarias parlamentarias de Argentina (y por qué es importante) - BBC News Mundo

El gobernante Frente de Todos, liderado por Alberto Fernández y la exmandataria Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, perdió categóricamente ante la coalición…

www.bbc.com

Losing their majority in Congress will be a major victory and will reign in the power of this hopelessly inept government.

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UK Man , you have actually rendered me speechless.

I took this picture at the last elections.

The government was given a big fat slap in the face yesterday and the same will happen in November for the mid-terms proper.

It's also worth noting that the official results didn't go public until nine o'clock last night, but the K party had already started dancing at eight.

Government suffers heavy defeat in PASO primaries

Frente de Todos suffers heavy defeats in City, Córdoba and Mendoza, while losing in heartlands including Buenos Aires and Santa Fe. Balance of power now up for…

www.batimes.com.ar

I did my civic duty anyway.

Cinthia Fernandez closes her campaign with a shimmy outside Congress. What's not to like?

Nah! More like this.

You could always run as local councillor, Señor El Escosés!

Jorge Macri, the mayor of Vte Lopez phoned me the other night telling me exactly where to vote, so it seems my card is marked!

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I can't vote so I can complain all I want!!

Yes they're a total waste of time....like the way most other things are done here.

You probably can vote if you check on the electoral roll, which you can find here:

Dónde voto 2021: el padrón electoral para las Elecciones en la Argentina | TN

I just checked, but it appears that foreigners can't vote in the mid-term PASO but can in November which is erroneously described as a general election.

Perhaps we need a swingometer to see which way the votes go?

The so called PASO elections which are wrongly called primary elections and considered by most people to be a complete waste of time, take place on 12th of September with the actual mid terms being on 14th of November.

This all fits very nicely with Argentines' inflated sense of drama and trying hopelessly to do things different to everyone else, I suppose.

Anyway, the Fernandez twins are busy hoping that Olivosgate will quietly evaporate whilst they massage the figures, hoping to keep devaluation artificially low at least until December or more likely, November. The end result of this mid term is pretty much written already - a slight slap on the wrist for Albert, but everything else will be business as usual afterwards.