Already in the early hours of this Monday, Patricia Bullrich asked that the votes of Córdoba are counted “transparently”. From the Juntos por el Cambio bunker and escorted by the candidate Luis Juez, the presidential candidate who was present to support the opposition candidates in the gubernatorial elections this Sunday in the province governed by Juan Schiaretti, questioned the final stretch of the scrutinywhich slowed down with 10 percent of the vote missing.
In the continuity of his criticisms of the recount of the Cordoba election, Bullrich stated that “the entire country is wondering why the system fails“. And it marked the doubts in the final stretch of an election that was closer than anticipated, when the numbers gave a minimum advantage of almost 3% of the official candidate Martin Llaryora over Judge.
“That from the first to the last vote of the people of Cordoba is counted in a transparent way,” Bullrich complained from the JxC bunker, where he was the main figure to make an appearance.
The presidential candidate, flanked by the candidate for governor, listed the circumstances questioned in the scrutiny of a vote that had single ticket In cordoba. “The entire country is wondering why the system or systems are failing when there is low institutional quality“, he lashed out.
Bullrich was the last to speak from the opposition bunker, after Judge and Rodrigo de Loredo, candidate for mayor of the capital -which is defined in about a month-. Whoever came to Córdoba to accompany “everything Together for Change” of that province, joined the criticism made by the candidate of that space.
”The idea that with the single ticket, at 10 at night we were going to have that result and be here, at 1 in the morning… At 7 they began to say that printers were missing, that there was no connectivity, that the power was cut off… The truth is that one always thinks that in Argentina institutional quality is linked to political will to do things transparently and take care of democracy”, listed the presidential candidate as a series of doubts at the end of a slow count.
Luis Juez: “I did not prepare myself to be robbed”
Judge had already poured strong criticism by then. “I did not prepare myself to be robbed,” said the candidate for governor of Córdoba for the armed opposition. Despite the incorporation of the single ballot, the radical branded the organization of the elections as “messy” by remarking that, in the last stretch, The data was loaded manually.
“I was preparing to come here to celebrate or to be accompanied to greet the mayor of the City of Córdoba (by Martín Llaryora), but we cannot do either one thing or the other, because at this point in the game, with all the technology they sold usthey are loading the minutes by hand and we have to wait for final scrutiny to see how the issue is,” Judge anticipated, which was his way of making it clear that, at dawn, he was not willing to accept any results due to trends.
In parallel, he questioned that “a government that has been in power for 25 years cannot even organize an election”, in a direct criticism of Governor Juan Schiaretti.
Judge insisted: “I prepared myself to win and to lose. I didn’t prepare to be robbed.” “The party did not end,” the candidate started by taking the microphone in his campaign bunker and insisting on waiting for the final count, given the narrow difference.
“At this time we prepare to celebrate or to go hug whoever won. I’m a football fan so when the game is over, it’s over. But the game did not end ”, remarked Judge, who considered, despite the fact that his team made a “huge choice”.
What was said by the leadership of JxC was in contrast to what was expressed by Hacemos Unidos por Córdoba, the space that gave Martín Llaryora the winner, who came out to speak and declare himself the winner minutes later.
Martín Llaryora spoke as the winner: he said that the result “is obvious” and the trend “irreversible”
Martin Llaryora spoke as winner of the electoral contest that he had with Luis Juez in search of the provincial government. The candidate of Hacemos Unidos por Córdoba said that the result, according to the numbers handled by his space, are “obvious” and that the trend “is irreversible.”
In a province like ours, we should have all the results and we don’t have them. We do have provisional ballots, and at this point we should be at approximately 90 percent of the count, with a difference of 50,000 votes,” Llaryora said.
At the same time, just as Judge did, Llaryora questioned the delay in the official counting of votes. “The most affected in this day that at this point has no resolution are all Cordoba, and especially those who should have the right to celebrate the effort we have made in this campaign,” he said.
“What should be a celebration of democracy looks cloudy because the results are notalthough the trend is already there”, clarified the mayor of the provincial capital before his followers of Hacemos Unidos por Córdoba.
And he added: “I am also very sorry because at this point in a province of ours, with the technology we have, how can it be that we have not already finished the majority scrutiny. Although we attest because we clearly have the polls and the election in the Capital that has been a wonderful election ”.
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