The Argentine president, Alberto Fernández (Ansa)
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November 13, 2021 Argentines go to the polls tomorrow for mid-term elections to renew half the members of the House (127 out of 257) and a third of the Senate (24 out of 72), in a vote that could make the president's maneuver more complex Alberto Fernández in the remaining two years of government.
Voting takes place two months after the 'primaries' in which the
governmental
Frente de Todos
(center-left) lost positions with respect to the opposition coalition
Juntos por el Cambio
(center-right).
"Everything seems to indicate - said analyst and sociologist Ricardo Rouvier yesterday, during a conference in the Association of the Foreign Press (Acera) - that we will see a repeat of the 'punitive vote' for the government recorded in the 'primary' of September. "It seems very difficult, and perhaps almost impossible - added another analyst, Raúl Timmerman - for the
Frente de Todos to
cancel the defeat of the primaries. We have not seen him carry out an intense electoral campaign in the area ".
In the two years of the pandemic, the problems of the Argentine economy have worsened, with an increase in poverty, back above 40%, strong inflation (around 50%) which reduces the purchasing power of wages, and an increase in prices of basic necessities which forced the government to intervene decisively to curb it.
Added to these are the issues of the unresolved restructuring of the debt with the IMF and of insecurity, especially in the province of Buenos Aires, which has 37% of the national votes and was in the past a natural pool of votes for Peronism.
The head of state asked the voters for help to overturn the outcome of the 'primaries': "In the remaining two years of government - he assured - I will give everything to continue to be able to look Argentines and Argentines in the eye. help build the Argentina dream we want ".
If the September vote is confirmed, the ruling party could lose the majority in the Senate and the position of first minority in the House.