The final result shows that Massa’s group will have two seats in San Juan; La Libertad Avanza will only have one
A recount of votes in San Juan province showed that Economy Minister Sergio Massa’s Unión Por La Patria coalition gained senators in Argentina’s elections. The result initially saw La Libertad Avanza, presidentelect Javier Milei, awarded two seats and Massa’s group in the province one. However, the final count showed a difference of 1,315 votes in favor of the Peronist Front.
According to the verification carried out by the electoral court in San Juan, after analyzing the 1,813 ballot boxes, Unión por la Patria obtained 155,266 votes (32.37%) for the Senate, while Milei’s coalition obtained 153,951 votes (32.10%).
This means that Milei’s group will have 7 senators in the upper house and Unión por la Patria will have 35.
This changed the distribution of seats compared to the original result from October 22nd, which showed the Libertarians’ victory in the province with 94% of the votes counted. By this count, as of December 10, La Libertad Avanza would have two seats in the upper house representing San Juan, and the current Economy Minister’s coalition would have one seat.
With the review, the Peronist bench will have two senators representing the province, while La Libertad Avanza will have one.
The current governor of San Juan, Sergio Uñac, whose term ends this year, and the leader of the Kirchnerist organization La Cámpora, María Celeste Giménez, will be the Union por la Patria senators representing the province. Accountant Bruno Olivera will take the Libertarian seat in the Senate.
In the first round of voting, Argentine voters went to the polls to renew part of the country’s Congress. 130 of the 257 seats in the House of Representatives and 24 of the 72 seats in the Senate were up for vote.
With the conclusion of the investigation, the number of congressmen from Massa’s party in the Senate increased from 32 to 35. Milei’s group now has 7 senators, one fewer than predicted in the first result, which gave 8 seats to the Libertarians and 34 to the Peronists. Coalitions had to elect at least 37 senators to have a majority in the upper house.
The elected president’s coalition, which had only three seats, elected 38 representatives. Unión Por La Patria also lost space in the House of Representatives, with 108 congressmen, 10 fewer than the current government bench.
Even if La Libertad Avanza does not win a majority of seats, the representatives of the two largest rightwing coalitions will form the majority in Congress with a combined 131 seats. The number of leftwing MPs is 121. Another 6 MPs are independent and have no defined political orientation.