By a court decision, the province would add 27 deputies and the capital would lose 7 – 05/07/2018

Calculator in hand, if the letter of this rule was applied to rajatabla, the federal capital would lose 7 deputies while the province of Buenos Aires would add 27 and Cordova 3. While Mendoza, Salta and Santa Fe

It is the cold number if one calculates, as it was done in 1983, the formula which establishes that a deputy should be elected for 161 000 inhabitants or, for a fraction greater than 80 500 inhabitants .

From this equation, with a subsequent correction, arises the number of the 257 deputies of the present time. In 1983, there were 254, of which 2 by Tierra del Fuego, which was national territory, and then to be recognized as a province, had 5 deputies.

The increase and decrease in the number of deputies is not what the National Electoral Chamber (NEC) orders – who signed Thursday a unanimous decision of Alberto Dalla Vía and Santiago Corcuera to guarantee proportionality and representativeness. but what would happen if this norm were transposed to the present?

In this case, the Province of Buenos Aires would grow from 70 to 97 deputies, Cordoba from 18 to 21, Santa Fe from 19 to 20 and the federal capital should "deliver" 5 seats.

There is, here, an obvious inequality: Córdoba and Capital surpbad the number of CABA inhabitants of several thousand but have many fewer deputies

There are several caveats. The same law states that no province may have less than five members, for which the low-population provinces are "overrepresented".

From which considerable differences. With the 2010 census data, a deputy from the province of Cordoba currently represents 183 826 inhabitants while a deputy from the province of Santa Cruz to 54 792 inhabitants.

The extremes are the province of Buenos Aires, where each deputy is equal to 223,215 inhabitants, and Tierra del Fuego, where there is a legislator every 25 411. That is, say: the relationship is almost 10 to 1.

The Bignone Law

The last de facto president, Reynaldo Bignone, drew the Democratic Return Congress. He did so on July 12, 1983, when he enacted Decree 22972, which defined the manner in which members' seats would be distributed, by force of law.

The drawing is in Article 3 of the text which, in its first article, calls elections for October 30 this year. The "design" left by the military withdrawal, after the Black Decade and the Falklands War, lasts almost intact.

This "law" establishes the number of national deputies to choose "will be one for 161 000 inhabitants or fraction of at least 80 500". The distribution was based on the 1980 census which established the Argentine population at just over 29.7 million.

At the same time, the norm has adapted a constitutional mandate which in article 45 establishes that the composition of the Chamber of Deputies must be updated after each census and adapt to population variations.

The standard introduces other elements. It establishes, on a case-by-case basis, that no province may have less than five members and that, since 1983, it can not have fewer members than it had at the time of the coup. of the State of 1976.