“I think you have to have two periods. It seems to me that alternation and change, the new faces is what can allow you to grow,” he stressed.
The deputy elected by Together for Change in Buenos Aires Diego Santilli questioned this Sunday the indefinite reelection of the mayors and considered that “it is something that does not do good” to Argentina.
The former deputy head of the Buenos Aires Government, who will be sworn in as Buenos Aires national deputy this Tuesday, Santilli pointed to the idea of some leaders of the Frente de Todos to cancel the prohibition of indefinite re-election that was imposed in 2016 during the administration of Governor María Eugenia Vidal .
“Indefinite reelection is something that does not do us good as a society,” the legislator-elect evaluated in radio statements.
This Friday, the Frente de Todos presented in the provincial Chamber of Deputies a project that seeks to nullify the limit on re-elections for communal chiefs.
“Indefinite reelection is something that does not do us good as a society”
According to calculations, in 2023 there will be 87 mayors of different political parties who will not be able to stand as candidates for reelection due to the prohibition imposed by the law sanctioned 5 years ago.
“I think you have to have two periods. It seems to me that the alternation and change, the new faces is what can allow you to grow,” Santilli highlighted.
The elected deputy expressed himself thus after being consulted about his opinion on the re-election of Mario Negri at the head of the Radical Civic Union bloc.
“It is an issue of the blocks and it has to do with the majority as well. It is a decision of the blocks,” he said.
Meanwhile, on the candidacies in the next electoral turn and specifically on the possibility that the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, will present himself for the presidency, Santilli said: “We are friends and they know that I support him, but the candidacies left for 2023. ”
“The 2022 is to solve the problems of the people and in this way they will find me, we have to try to solve the problems”, highlighted the elected legislator.
What the ruling says
A court ruling opened the door to the reintroduction of the indefinite reelection of Buenos Aires mayors, prohibited by a 2016 law thatIt prevents more than two consecutive terms for the communal chiefs, councilors and school counselors of the Province of Buenos Aires, as well as senators and deputies.
It’s about a Amparo presented in this regard by a councilor from the Malvinas Argentinas party that received a favorable resolution from a Contentious Administrative Court of San Martín.
The current law that prohibits indefinite reelection was approved during the administration of María Eugenia Vidal
Failure It allows the mayor to bypass the law and stand as a candidate in the next elections. However, it has yet to be ratified in the Chamber.
The resolution, if confirmed, It will enable all officials elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 to stand for a new term in 2023. The measure will not only benefit Buenos Aires mayors, but also senators and provincial deputies, councilors and school counselors.
The current law that prohibits indefinite reelection was approved during the administration of María Eugenia Vidal.
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