The ruling front Cambia Mendoza obtained a resounding electoral victory over the Frente de Todos by more than 23% difference, a result that allows him to keep two seats in Senators and three in Deputies.
93.82% of the tables were scrutinized, the former governor and president of the radicalism at the national level, Alfredo Cornejo, won the election to the National Senate with 49.70%, a percentage that reflects the 456,511 votes it obtained.
Cornejo will be accompanied in the upper house by Pamela Verasay, while the list of the Frente de Todos, headed by the Kirchnerista senator Anabel Fernandez Sagasti, he managed to keep his seat, but with only 26.06% of the votes (239,340).
For the Chamber of Deputies, the list of Cambia Mendoza, headed by the current senator and former vice president Julio Cobos, surpassed the Frente de Todos by 49.67% (457,617 votes), against 26.08% (240,259 votes), obtaining 3 seats for the provincial government, and the other 2 for Kirchnerism.
From the Mendoza bunker at the Aconcagua Hotel, the governor Rodolfo Suarez He assured that he will avoid a triumphalist attitude: “We are not here to celebrate, we are here to assume a great responsibility that they have given us and to thank the overwhelming support for this provincial government.”
“In Mendoza, we had to raise our voices and 50% of the people of Mendoza have supported us with a historical difference of 25 points with the opposition,” he remarked.
The governor called for dialogue: “This is the moment, and if he calls us to a fruitful dialogue so that real changes take place, where they all have to be: traditional Peronism, Kirchnerism, the UCR, the PRO, with agreements basic, this governor and my team, surely we will be accompanying “.
Cornejo, for his part, left a recorded message, because he traveled to Buenos Aires to fulfill his role as president of radicalism at the national level.
The national deputy who won the seat for the Senate of the Nation assured: “We have obtained a resounding triumph based on the teamwork that we have been doing with Governor Rodolfo Suarez, and in particular with a very special situation in the country where balance was needed. in the power”.
“The situation of economic uncertainty that the country has is not the best symbol for the celebrations, although we are happy to have won. If it is very nice to celebrate a democratic act, and hopefully it is for the good of Argentina”, closed Cornejo, who will assume
the seat in the upper house in December.
For his part, the current senator Julio Cobos, who will assume a seat in the Deputies, assured: “Argentina has structural problems that come from management to management. We have to organize many things, decentralize discretionary resources in order to give the provinces and municipalities planning power.”
Télam consulted him about his evaluation of the political map and considered that it will be necessary to “rectify the course”: “The map will be similar to that of the PASO. It is a message to the national government to rectify the course, which has not led us in these two years on a favorable path in terms of the economy, security, foreign debt, public confidence, which must be recovered. ”
