Politics of Argentina

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Argentina held national parliamentary elections on Sunday, 23 October 2005. For the purpose of these elections, each of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are considered electoral districts. October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Argentina consists of 23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), and 1 federal district (Capital Federal *). Capital Federal * Buenos Aires Catamarca Chaco Chubut Córdoba Corrientes Entre Ríos Formosa Jujuy La Pampa La Rioja Mendoza Misiones Neuquén Río Negro Salta San Juan San Luis Santa Cruz Santa Fe Santiago... Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in Latin America. ...

Each district elected a number of members of the Lower House (the Argentine Chamber of Deputies) roughly proportional to their population. Eight districts (Buenos Aires, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Misiones, San Juan, San Luis, and Santa Cruz) also elected members to the Upper House of Congress (the Argentine Senate); as usual, three senators were elected (two for the majority, one for the first minority). The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the National Congress, Argentinas parliament. ... The Buenos Aires province (IPA: , Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the largest, wealthiest and most populated province of Argentina. ... Map of Argentina highlighting Formosa province Formosa Province is in northeastern Argentina, part of the Chaco Region. ... Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. ... La Rioja is a one of the provinces of Argentina and is, located in the west of the country. ... Misiones is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region. ... San Juan is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country. ... Categories: Argentina geography stubs | Argentine provinces ... Santa Cruz is a province of Argentina, located in the south of the country, in the Patagonia. ... The Argentine Senate is the upper house of parliament in Argentina. ...

In most provinces, the national elections were conducted in parallel with local ones, whereby a number of municipalities elected legislative officials (concejales) and in some cases also a mayor (or the equivalent executive post). Each provincial election followed local regulations. This is a list of cities in Argentina. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ...

A number of districts had held primary elections beforehand. In most cases, primary elections are optional and can be called for by the local political parties as needed; in Santa Fe, however, the primaries were universal and compulsory due to a recent law that repealed the much-criticized Ley de Lemas. A primary election is an election in which registered voters in a jurisdiction select a political partys candidate for a later election (nominating primary). ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ... The Ley de Lemas (Spanish, Law of Lemmas) is a law dictating a voting system that employs an unusual open-list party-list proportional representation method. ...

Political overview

In some districts, different factions of the Justicialist Party (PJ) presented candidates separately. In the province of Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires City, the main intra-party division of the PJ was between the center-right traditional Peronist faction led by Hilda González de Duhalde (wife of former governor and interim president Eduardo Duhalde) and the more center-left "heterodox" faction with candidates that answer to President Néstor Kirchner, including his own wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and Minister of Foreign Relations Rafael Bielsa. In the province of Buenos Aires, this split was protested by other parties, on the grounds that the PJ (taken as a whole) would most likely win the three senatorial benches available (as it finally occurred). The Justicialist Party (Spanish: Partido Justicialista, PJ) is a Peronist political party from Argentina. ... The Buenos Aires province (IPA: , Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the largest, wealthiest and most populated province of Argentina. ... Eduardo Alberto Duhalde Maldonado (born October 5, 1941) is a former president of Argentina. ... Néstor Carlos Kirchner â–¶(?) (born 25 February 1950) is the current President of Argentina. ... Cristina Elisabeth Fernández (19 February 1953–) is an Argentine politician. ... Rafael Antonio Bielsa (born February 15, 1953 in Rosario, Argentina) is the foreign minister of Argentina since May 25, 2003, when President Néstor Kirchner took office. ...

Kirchner took a prominent role in the campaign for "his" candidates of the Front for Victory (Frente para la Victoria, FV) in most provinces, explicitly stating that these elections were a plebiscite about his administration. The opening and closing campaign meetings of the FV were both held in Rosario, a typically progressive city with a successful Socialist local government since 1987 that tends to counter the traditional electoral draw of Peronism in the province of Santa Fe. Kirchner also participated in a meeting in La Rioja, where former president Carlos Menem retains some influence and was a candidate for the Senate. A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ... Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the third most populous in the country, after Córdoba and Buenos Aires. ... The Socialist Party of Argentina is a political party operating in Argentina. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... La Rioja is a city in Argentina. ... Carlos Saúl Menem (born July 2, 1930) was President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999 for the Justicialist Party (Peronist). ...

Results

For official results, visit Elecciones 2005, a website opened by the Argentine Ministry of Interior (in Spanish).

The main parties competing for the votes in Argentina that obtained any of the disputed seats in the Senate or the Chamber of Deputies were:

• President Kirchner's faction of Peronism, called Frente para la Victoria (FV, "Front for Victory") and its allies.
• Other factions of Peronism, under the usual name Partido Justicialista (PJ, "Justicialist Party"), often led by their respective provincial party leaders (notably Eduardo Duhalde in Buenos Aires).
• Unión Cívica Radical (UCR, "Radical Civic Union").
• Afirmación Para Una República Igualitaria (ARI, "Support for an Egalitarian Republic"), led by Elisa Carrió.
• Recrear para el Crecimiento (Recreate for Growth, usually shortened to Recrear) and its allies.
• Partido Socialista (PS, Socialist Party).

In the country as a whole, the Front for Victory obtained an overwhelming triumph. Of the 127 deputies elected, the FV won 69 seats (54%); the UCR only got 19. The rest of the Justicialist Party obtained 11 seats; Recrear got 9, the ARI got 8, and the Socialist Party got 5. Only the three most voted in this list have an established national structure; Recrear and the ARI are relatively recent offshoots of the UCR (to the right- and left-wing side of the political spectrum, respectively), and the Socialist Party's five deputies all belong to the province of Santa Fe, the only district where the PS is strong. The Justicialist Party (Spanish: Partido Justicialista, PJ) is a Peronist political party from Argentina. ... The Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical, or UCR) is the foremost opposition party in Argentina. ... The Alternative for a Republic of Equals (Spanish: Alternativa por una República de Iguales) is an Argentine political party. ... Elisa María Avelina Carrió (born 1956) is an Argentinian politician, founder of the center-left Alternative for a Republic of Equals party (ARI). ... Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Liberal parties | Argentine political parties ... The Socialist Party of Argentina is a political party operating in Argentina. ... Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ...

As explained above, eight provinces were also scheduled to renew their senators (the Senate is renewed by thirds every two years). The Front for Victory won 17 of the 24 senatorial seats. The other factions of Peronism got 4 senators. The UCR got the remaining 3 seats. Among the remarkable results were the victory of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Buenos Aires, the largest in the country, beating Hilda González de Duhalde by about 25% of the votes; and the defeat of Carlos Menem in his home district, La Rioja (though he won the first minority seat).

In the news

• CNN
• Miami Herald
• Boston Globe
• Pravda (English edition)
• AFP (via Yahoo! News)
• Financial Times
• From the Line of sight weblog: Pick your poison, And the winner is... (and followups).
• From the GoodAirs weblog: The Argentine Elections and "Clientelismo"

Reference

In Spanish unless otherwise noted.

• Election results
• Election results and maps - Atlas Electoral de Andy Tow
• National Electoral Direction - Ministry of Interior of Argentina.