Argentine legislative election, 2009

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Argentine legislative election, 2009
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127 (of the 257) seats to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
and 24 (of the 72) Argentine Senate
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Nestor Kirchner (2005).jpg Elisa Carrio - Unen.png Francisco de Narvaez.jpg
Leader Néstor Kirchner Elisa Carrió Francisco de Narváez
Party FPV-PJ CC-ARI PRO
Alliance Civic and Social Agreement
Leader since200820072009
Leader's seat Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Province
Last election129 (C) / 38 (S)60 (C) / 17 (S)13 (C) / 0 (S)
Seats won110 (C) / 34 (S)78 (C) / 23 (S)32 (C) / 0 (S)
Seat change-19 (C) / -4 (S)+18 (C) / +6 (S)+19 (C) / 0 (S)
Popular vote5,891,3305,549,7473.391.391
Percentage30,80%28,94%17.70%
Swing-12.23%+9.14%+12.30%
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Legislative elections were held in Argentina for half the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and a third (24) of the seats in the Senate on 28 June 2009, as well as for the legislature of the City of Buenos Aires and other municipalities. [1] [2]

Argentina federal republic in South America

Argentina, officially named the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation. The sovereign state is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Argentine Chamber of Deputies lower house of Argentina Congress

The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress. It is made up of 257 national deputies who are elected in multi-member constituencies corresponding with the territories of the 23 provinces of Argentina by party list proportional representation. Elections to the Chamber are held every two years; half of its members are renewed each election.

Argentine Senate

The Argentine Senate is the upper house of the National Congress of Argentina.

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Background

The elections were due to have been held on 25 October 2009. In March 2009, the Mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, moved to bring forward the date of elections to the Buenos Aires City Legislature to June 28, saying that it would increase transparency and democratic quality. [3] Opposition figures criticised the decision, suggesting Macri was attempting to consolidate his power in the city, and building the career of his deputy, Gabriela Michetti, expected to head the list for Macri's coalition in the election. [4] Similar changes to the election date had been introduced in the provinces of Santa Fe and Catamarca (March 2009). [5] [6]

Mauricio Macri Argentine politician and President of Argentina

Mauricio Macri is the current President of Argentina and has been in office since 2015. A former civil engineer, Macri won the first presidential runoff ballotage in Argentina's history and is the first democratically-elected non-Radical or Peronist president since 1916. He was chief of government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and represented the city in the lower house of the Congress of Argentina from 2005 to 2007. The reintegration of Argentina into the international community is central to Macri's agenda.

Gabriela Michetti Argentine politician

Marta Gabriela Michetti Illia is an Argentine politician, currently serving as Vice President of Argentina since 10 December 2015. Before her, the only woman to serve as Vice President of Argentina was Isabel Martínez de Perón.

Santa Fe Province Province of Argentina

The Province of Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero. Together with Córdoba and Entre Ríos, the province is part of the economico-political association known as the Center Region.

Despite the criticism by politicians from Government ranks that Macri had abused the process by unilaterally changing the election date, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that she too would be introducing legislation to move the date of national elections forward by four months, to June 28. Despite great debate and the defections of some Peronist legislators, the proposal passed its Congressional stages quickly and the date was successfully changed. [2] The Government claimed it would allow politicians to leave behind campaigning priorities and focus on tackling the ongoing local effect of the international financial crisis. Equally controversial was a decision by Front for Victory leader Néstor Kirchner (the current President's husband and predecessor) to advance stand-in candidates - prominent local lawmakers (notably Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli, as well as 15 Greater Buenos Aires-area mayors) who, after the election, would be likely to cede their new seats to down-ticket names. [7]

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Argentine politician and ex President of Argentina

Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was the second woman to serve as President of Argentina, the first directly elected female president, and the first woman re-elected to the office. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, she was a member of the Justicialist Party, with her political approach being characterised as Kirchnerism.

Front for Victory centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, formally a faction of the Justicialist Party

The Front for Victory is a centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, and it is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Both the former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007–2015) belong to this party, located on the centre-left of the mainstream Argentine political spectrum. The party was led by Néstor Kirchner until his death in 2010. The Front for Victory is ideologically identified with what has been called Kirchnerism. Legally, the Front should not be confused with the Party for Victory, which is just one of the political parties in it.

Néstor Kirchner president of Argentina

Néstor Carlos Kirchner Jr. was an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and as Governor of Santa Cruz from 1991 to 2003. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, he served as President of the Justicialist Party from 2008 to 2010, with his political approach being characterised as Kirchnerism.

The elections resulted in a setback for the governing, center-left Front for Victory and its allies, which lost their absolute majorities in both houses of Congress. [8] Former President Néstor Kirchner stood as head of his party list in the important Buenos Aires Province. Kirchner's list was defeated, however, by the center-right Republican Proposal (PRO) list headed by businessman Francisco de Narváez; the loss in Buenos Aires Province, though narrow, is significant as the province has been considered a Peronist stronghold and had helped maintain Kirchnerism as the dominant force in Argentine politics since 2003. Buenos Aires Vice Mayor Gabriela Michetti stood as head of the PRO list for the Lower House, and defeated four other prominent parties; the evening's surprise in Buenos Aires, however, was that of filmmaker Fernando Solanas' left-wing Proyecto Sur, which obtained second place. [9] [10]

Buenos Aires Province Province of Argentina

Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous Argentinian province. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be part of the province and the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880. Since then, in spite of bearing the same name, the province does not include the national capital city proper, though it does include all other localities of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area surrounding it. The current capital of the province is the city of La Plata, founded in 1882.

Republican Proposal political party

Republican Proposal is a centre-right political party in Argentina. It is usually referred to by its abbreviation PRO. PRO was formed as an electoral alliance in 2005, but was transformed into a unitary party on 3 June 2010.

Francisco de Narváez Argentine politician and businessman

Francisco de Narváez Steuer, known as El Colorado or Pancho, is a Colombian-born naturalized Argentine businessman, politician who ran for governor of Buenos Aires Province on the PRO ballot in the 2007 elections in Argentina. He is currently a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.

The Kirchners' leading opposition on the center-left, the Civic Coalition, also made significant gains – particularly in the Senate, where they gained 7 seats. The Front for Victory had already lost 16 Lower House members and 4 Senators on the heels of the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector over a proposed rise in export tariffs. The crisis was defused by Vice President Julio Cobos' surprise, tie-breaking vote against them on July 16, 2008; but fallout from the controversy led to the President's distancing from Cobos (who successfully supported his own party list in his native Mendoza Province), a sharp drop in presidential approval ratings, and the aforementioned congressional defections. One especially successful ex-Kirchnerist was Santa Fe Province Senator Carlos Reutemann, who after the agrarian conflict formed Santa Fe Federal. His new party narrowly bested local Socialist Party leader Rubén Giustiniani, who would garner one of Santa Fe's three Senate seats. [11] The Front for Victory retained a plurality in both houses, however (they will, with two allies, be one seat short of an absolute majority in the Senate). [10]

The 2008 Argentine Farm Crisis refers to the conflict between the Argentinean national government and the 4 entities that represented the agriculture sector. The crisis began in March 2008 with four agricultural sector employers organizations taking direct action such as road blocks to protest against the decision of the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to raise export taxes on soybeans and sunflower. The subsequent political upheaval has seen elements of the ruling Front for Victory speak out against the government and the resignation of Economy Minister Martín Lousteau.

Julio Cobos Argentine politician

Julio César Cleto Cobos is an Argentine politician, serving as the Vice President of Argentina in the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2007 to 2011. He started his political career as member of the Radical Civic Union party (UCR), becoming Governor of the Province of Mendoza in 2003. He was expelled from the UCR in 2007, and was then selected by presidential candidate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of the ruling Front for Victory (FpV), as her candidate for vice-president in the elections of that year, which they won.

Results

e  •  d  Summary of the 28 June 2009 Argentine National Congress election results
Coalitions and parties Chamber of Deputies of the Nation:
127 out of 257 seats		 Senate of the Nation:
24 out of 72 seats
Votes%DeputiesVotes%Senators
Justicialist Party 2,778,32614.50%19
Front for Victory 1,679,0848.80%14
Justicialist Front 415,4042.20%6-
Others1,018,5155.30%8-
Total Kirchnerist (Left-wing Peronist)5,891,33030.80%478
Civic and Social Agreement 3,794,85319.80%28-
Radical Civic Union 639,8183.30%4-
Front for Everyone 381,0672.00%3-
Others734,0093.84%6
Total Civic and Social Agreement (Center-left radical)5,549.,74728.94%4114
Republican Proposal (Liberal-conservative and
right-wing factions opposed to Kirchner)		3,391,39117.70%200
Proyecto Sur 437,6342.30%4
New Encounter 402,5022.10%2
Others255,5661.30%-
Total Left-wing (Socialist)1,092,7025.70%60
Others parties3,208,91716.77%132
Total19,134,087 12724
Registered voters27,797,930
Votes cast20,123,715
Invalid votes989,6284.90%
Sources: Adam Carr's Website [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Barrionuevo, Alexei; Sreeharsha, Vinod (2009-03-13). "Citing Economy Worries, Argentine Leader Seeks Early Vote". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  2. 1 2 Argentina adopts early congressional election, Associated Press, 27 March 2009.
  3. ↑ Macri dispuso que se vote dos veces: el 28 de junio será la primera, infobae.com, 13 March 2009.
  4. ↑ La oposición salió a criticar duro a Macri por desdoblar las elecciones, Clarín , 12 March 2009.
  5. ↑ Catamarca desdobla sus comicios, parlamentario.com, 31 December 2008. Accessed 27 March 2009.
  6. ↑ Binner decidió que las elecciones se desdoblen en la provincia [ permanent dead link ], Rafaela.com, 18 February 2009. Accessed 27 March 2009.
  7. ↑ Clarín(in Spanish)
  8. ↑ BBC News
  9. ↑ Gray, Kevin (Reuters) (2009-06-29). "Argentine leader suffers sharp blow in vote". Forbes. Archived from the original on July 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  10. 1 2 3 Clarín Infografía (in Spanish)
  11. ↑ El Litoral(in Spanish)
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