According to the Census, the Province of Buenos Aires should add more deputies

The Census is once again controversial, since what the law establishes is that the representatives of the lower house, which are directly proportional to the number of inhabitants of each district, will connect adding more deputies from the conformation of each Census and the increase of the population in Argentina. At this moment, there are 257 deputies,” reported columnist Alejandro Gomel in Fontevecchia modeby net tv and RadioProfile (FM 101.9).

He Research Center for Democratic Quality made a report that revealed that the number that the Lower House should have should have 359 deputiestaking into account the inhabitants in the country.

is Buenos Airesfundamental in any election for all that it represents, instead of 70 converted seats, there will be 112, that is, 42 more deputies..

We are 46,044,703 inhabitants, according to provisional data from the 2022 Census

Some curious facts according to how they are currently represented, the City of Buenos Aires is the second district that has representation with 25 deputies. If the current numbers were taken, it would not be the second, but the fourth with 22 deputies.

The The second most important province should be Cordoba which, according to the number of inhabitants, should have 28 deputies, 10 more than it currently has. And the third Santa Fe instead of 19 representatives should have 25.

He sent 256 shovels to the deputies so that they “go to work” but he will have to get 102 more

In short, this is an old debt of democracy so that there is proportional representation in the Chamber of Deputies, but there was never an agreement to carry out and comply with this law since it implies, for example, more budget.

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