Together for Change will have its second internal struggle in Trelew: the crossovers and accusations between the PRO and the UCR

The city of Trelew This Sunday will become a new dispute scenario between the PRO and the UCR, in the midst of a fight to lead Together for change. This is the first election of the year that the province of chubutin a closed internal party which, although it has no direct national implications, advances the fight for the post of governor between Ignacio Torressupported by Horace Rodriguez Larretathere damien bissbishop of Gerard Morales. In the previous, complaints were registered for irregularities in the registration of affiliations and alleged agreements with local Peronism.

No date for the election of the governor, the current mayor Adrian Maderna has decided to bring forward the elections in Trelew for 16th April next. But this Sunday, the candidates of each party will be chosen behind closed doors: in Together for Change, they face Frederic Massoni (DUC) and Gerardo Merino (PRO), and in the PJ they are disputed between Emmanuel Colinir, Nelson Castro there Juan Carlos Jara.

In the opposition coalition, the internal of this Sunday becomes relevant due to the implications this may have at the provincial and national level. After winning in La Pampa, UCR feel they can once again show territoriality in southern Argentina which will boost them in the fight against PRO to take the lead in space. For the governorshipthe centenary party is postulating Biss (current mayor of Rawson), who has the support of Morales, Martin Lousteau, Mario Negri, Facundo Manes, Abbot Maximilian there Marguerite Stolbizer. On the other side, larretism animates Senator Torres.

During the closing ceremony of Massoni’s campaign, Morales stressed that “this election will define a path and that is why it is very important for Trelew, for Chubut, but also for the whole Argentine Republic”. In their entourage, they confessed GlobeLiveMedia that in the event of victory of the candidate for the radical mayor, “it will be very difficult for Torres to feel like the natural candidate for governor”. “She’s going to have to fight,” they say.

“If we win on Sunday, we will have legitimacy for the post of governor of Chubut”, they underline within the national committee of the UCR. Co-religionists feel strong to win Trelew since at the close of the PRO campaign there were almost 200 people. “We summoned 800 and in the polls we are 20 points ahead“, say they close to Massoni.

In PRO, on the other hand, they relaunch the fight for the elimination of PASO in Chubut who faced last year Morales himself with Mauricio Macri. “Was an agreement with Mariano Arcioni (current governor),” Torres denounced in a dialogue with GlobeLiveMedia. Moreover, he said that the provincial leader is seeking to break Together for Change in complicity with the UCR in order to lower his provincial candidacy.

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“In Chubut, there are sectors that want to change the electoral rules months after voting and repealing PASO. Citizen participation annoys them, they favor shortcuts. You cannot be complicit in this setback, especially those of us at JxC who have decided to stand up for democracy and participation,” Macri said on his Twitter account when the conflict erupted in mid-September. ‘last year.

At that time, Morales demanded that the former president “enter a bit into the internal life of Chubut and order his people a bit, which is quite violent towards radicalism”.

The PRO and the UCR had agreed to close the electoral list on 31 January. However, according to the complaint filed by Bissthe yellow party extended this deadline and, in addition, committed irregularities such as the falsification of registrations of at least 17 people.

Indeed, the pre-candidate for the post of councilor of Peronism Nahili Annon filed a lawsuit in Rawson Federal Court against the PRO for affiliating her without her consent and for falsifying her signature. “I never filled out the form and the signature is not mine. I don’t know how they faked it, but it was copied from my document,” he warned in his presentation.

A neighbor from Trelew also joined, identified as Rosa Hueycha, who addressed the electoral council Juntos por el Cambio to demand that it exclude her from the PRO register because she never signed the party affiliation form. “He did not sign any affiliation form, which is why he says his signature was forged,” reads part of the complaint to which this outlet has had access.

In radicalism, they point out that there are some 17 similar cases, which are affiliated with both the PJ and the PRO. What is striking is that, according to the complainants, until January 31, the yellow party had nearly 450 affiliates, then, outside the agreed date, double what was planned. The cases that present irregularities were mostly registered among the last registered, and they would also not have the six-month period necessary to vote in the internal elections of the party.

For this Sunday, the radical strategy team announced that Are you ready for the vote count? because they have the details of the names that have irregularities. “It’s going to be a very difficult choice. we’re going to win but it’s a shame that they make these maneuvers“, expressed in radicalism those who, in addition, believe that there has been interference from Peronism, threatened by the number of Merinos in the polls.

“everything is one lie“, they reacted in the PRO. Consulted on the deadlines for presenting affiliates, they pointed out that the deadlines are typical of judicial deadlines and the processing of cases. In addition, they pointed out that in the UCR “they are full of double affiliations” and that this is due to the usual delays of those who cease to belong to other parties. “They want to make noise and open the umbrella before a possible defeat. This has already been resolved by the Court. The request has been cancelled,” they added.

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