Photo: Victoria Gesualdi.
The Frente de Todos (FdT) and Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) opened the Chubut electoral calendar this Sunday with “closed internal elections” in the city of Trelew from which the candidates for mayor and councilors will emerge who will compete in that district on next April 16.
The modality on both electoral fronts will be “closed internal”, so only those affiliated with the parties that make up the coalitions could vote, after the elimination of the system of Open, Simultaneous and Obligatory Primaries (PASO) that was repealed in the province at the end of last year.
The FdT, made up of the Justicialista Party, the Renewal Front, the Victory Party, Chubut Somos Todos and the Labor and People’s Party, will have a dispute between three pre-candidates who aspire to reach the mayor’s office.
He is the coordinator of Municipalities of the Patagonian region of the Ministry of the Interior of the Nation and leader of the youth group “La Cámpora”, Emanuel Coliñir; the engineer Nelson Castro, identified with the president of the PJ Chubut congress, José Salvador Arrechea; and the justicialist base militant Juan Carlos “El cartero” Jara, who promotes his candidacy claiming his status as a postal worker.
The contest that will take place in JxC attracted the attention of the national leaders of the UCR and the PRO, who in recent days toured the second town of the province in support of the applicants of both spaces.
JxC is made up of the UCR, Propuesta Republicana (PRO) and Polo Social parties, with the symbolic participation of the GEN and the ARI, which do not have political personality in this district but have expressed support.
At the closing ceremony of the candidate for mayor for the “I chose Trelew” list, Federico Massoni, the governor of Jujuy and president of the UCR national committee, Gerardo Morales, was present, who shared the stage with the national deputy of the GEN Margarita Stolbizer.
The other candidate within the coalition is the veterinarian Gerardo Merino, who obtained the support of the Buenos Aires head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and national senator Ignacio Torres.
