The inhabitants of Chaco voted this Sunday in the Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory elections (PASO) to decide candidates for governor and vice president, provincial legislators, mayors and councilors of all the municipalities for the general elections that will take place on September 17. With a 27.92% of tables counted, the gap between the opposition and Capitanich narrows. Together for Change carries the 43.49% of the votes, while the Chaqueño Front reaches the 41.61%.
The polling stations closed at 6:00 p.m., after a day marked by the disappearance and possible femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski, which threatens to shake the provincial power.
The start of the elections in some Resistencia schools was delayed, due to the absence of table presidents. The Chaco Electoral Tribunal announced that the 3,003 polling stations used for the elections functioned “normally”. There were 998,337 people qualified to vote and voter turnout was 52%8% less than the participation of the PASO of 2021. The first results were known after 9:00 p.m.
I followed the first results on Perfil.com:
With 25.96% of tables counted, these are the partial results
Chaco Front: 41.61%
- Jorge Capitanich and Analía Rach Quiroga (PJC – October 17 – Chaco Front): 99.24%
- Ismael Walter Espinoza and Cepriano Arizaga (PXI – Siglo 21 Justicialista – Chaco Front): 0.76%
Together for Change: 43.49%
- Juan Carlos Polini and Delfina Veiravé (A – Order and Work – Together for Change): 51.86%
- Leandro Zdero and Silvana Schneider (Z – Chaco Cambia – Together for Change): 48.14%
unique lists:
- Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff and César Picón (1 – Integration – Integrating Front): 2.97%
- Cesar German Baez and Samanta Ariela Salas (Partido del Obrero): 0.89%
- Alfredo “Capi” Rodriguez and Ileana Aguirre (Freedom Advances): 1.92%
- gustavo martinez and Viviam Polini (A – For All – Current of Renewed Expression): 6.12%
- ruben galassi and Marta Kassor (Libertarians in Action): 1.35%
- Sunday Peppo and Nicolás Matta (United for the People): 1.64%
There were also 12,716 blank votes and 1,098 null ones.
How the voting developed in Chaco
According to Governor Jorge Capitánich, the PASO closed normally and assured that “we have obtained a resounding victory within our space. That means a projection close to 98%.” The president competes internally against Ismael Espinoza.
Regarding the candidacies dismissed by the Electoral Court, in the framework of the investigation into the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski, it was clarified that although the ballots still bear the names of the detained candidates, the votes will go to the party and not to people.
“The Electoral Tribunal has ruled on the matter. The group asked us to exclude Sena, Obregón, Acuña and González. We, as the Electoral Tribunal, have decided to exclude these pre-candidates, but given the proximity of the elections, we maintained the validity of the tickets: that’s why they were in the dark room, but those people are not counted. That is, it maintains validity in relation to with the other candidates“, they clarified in a press conference.
Cecilia Strzyzowski’s mother voted in Resistencia: “Today is the angry vote”
What did they vote in Chaco
Jorge Capitanich seeks his re-election together with his vice Analía Rach Quiroga, for the Chaqueño Frontwhile Ismael Walter Espinoza and Cepriano Arizaga dispute the PASO in the same political space. In Together for Change, the two formulas are made up of Juan Carlos Polini and Delfina Veiravé on the one hand, and Leandro Zdero and Silvana Schneider, on the other. Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff, who was interim governor when Capitanich was appointed chief of the national Cabinet, ran along with his vice president, César Picón, for the Integrating Front.
The former provincial president and Argentine ambassador in Paraguay, Domingo Peppo also seeks to return to office with Nicolás Matta as running mate, for United for the People. César Germán Báez and Samanta Ariela Salas presented themselves for the Partido Obrero; Alfredo “Capi” Rodríguez and Ileana Aguirre, for La Libertad Avanza; Gustavo Martínez and Viviam Polini, for Current of Renewed Expression; and Rubén Galassi and Marta Kassor, for Libertarios in Action.
Elections marked by the Cecilia Strzyzowski case
The alleged femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski, a 28-year-old woman who has disappeared since June 1, keeps the province of Chaco on edge, where the young woman’s in-laws, close to the governor, were legislative candidates and were detained along with the woman’s husband. young. Investigators believe that Strzyzowski was the victim of a femicide.
The husband, César Sena, is accused of being the author of the crime of “homicide triply aggravated by the bond, by the premeditated competition of two or more people and for having been carried out in a context of gender violence.” Sena’s parents, Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña, meanwhile, are charged as necessary participants in “aggravated homicide by the premeditated participation of two or more people.” Four other people were arrested as secondary participants.
New searches are also planned in search of traces of the young woman in a huge dump located 50 kilometers from Resistencia, the capital of Chaco, after Gustavo Melgarejo, the landlord of the Sena home, who is in custody, expanded his investigation. : “I saw her gagged, alive, in the back seat of a pickup truck,” he had told prosecutors days before. On Thursday he added that “they took the body to a dump.”
Disappearance, detainees, clues and obscure versions: the chronology of the Cecilia Strzyzowski case
Nelia Velázquez, one of the three prosecutors assigned to the investigation, said that “it is a very complex case.” “A lot of evidence abounds, cell phone hijackings, calls, GPS location; all of which must be analyzed and chained in order to generate a hypothesis. We are looking for Cecilia with or without life,” she added.
Gloria Romero, the victim’s mother, said that her daughter was the victim of a trap by the Sena and believes that she is already dead: “We are sure that she is no more, that she is dead,” said Romero in a massive march in torches on Wednesday night to demand justice in Resistencia. She claimed that it was a femicide. “It was premeditated, it was a trap (…) This case has repercussions, not because of my daughter, but because (the defendant) is the son of Emerenciano.”
The disappearance of the woman was a hard blow for the Peronist governor Jorge Capitanich, who will seek his re-election in the September 17 elections and denounced “a political use” of the case. Capitanich was godfather at the wedding of Emerenciano Sena and Acuña. Both, leaders of a social organization, were removed this week from an electoral ballot that accompanied the governor’s, as pre-candidates for provincial legislator and mayor of the Chaco capital respectively, for the primaries next Sunday in that province.
Capitanich tried to do damage control: “A police event cannot be transformed into a political event”
Cecilia Strzyzowski was the partner of César Sena, the son of a couple of social leaders -Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña- close to the Governor Joge Capitanich and that in fact they were going to be candidates of the Chaco Front. Sena was going to run as provincial deputy and Acuña as mayor of Resistencia, although the ruling party in recent days displaced both of them for being detained, beyond the fact that their names appeared the same this Sunday on the ballots.
At the time of casting his vote, just minutes after the opening of the polls, the president of Chaco He said that “those guilty of the act will be punished to the fullest extent of the law” and affirmed that “all the defendants in the case are detained and excluded from the lists” that participant of the election. “A police event cannot become a political event,” summarized the Checeño president.
Cecilia Strzyzowski’s mother, Gloria Romero, assured after voting that “today is the angry vote.” “Many people told me that it was useless to vote in the PASO, but it is useful. Today the way to march is to vote,” Romero stressed, and asked: “If they are with me, come vote. That in the votes they realize that people are angry”. In addition, the family of the disappeared young woman began the day being guarded by the National Gendarmerie, after receiving threats: “We know you have another daughter,” they suggested over the phone.
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