Four PASO voters live in the Falkland Islands – Telam

In total, four voters residing in the Falkland Islands are on the voters list to vote at the OSP next Sunday in Tierra de Fuego. Osvaldo Hillar is the only one of the four currently residing in the city of Ushuaia and whose National Identity Coin (DNI) carries the address "Eduardo A. Vallejo 103. Puerto Argentino", as a that "symbolic homage" to the soldier bearing that name. He died between 11 and 12 June 1982 near him under the bursts of a bombardment of the English navy.

However, the List for the Simultaneous and Compulsory Open Primary (STEP) established by the Electoral Justice also includes José Luis Chantada, María Marta Villanueva and Pamela Margaret MacLeod, all domiciled in the Falkland Islands, corroborated by official sources consulted by Telam.

Chantada, 68, is on the voters list with the address "Fitz Roy Road 37". As he told Telam, he left the Malvinas three months ago and currently resides in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

"We proceeded to Rio Gallegos (Santa Cruz) to have an address in Argentina. Being so far away, I do not think that they cost me the ticket to be able to vote, "said the man who is Argentinian, is married to an islander and recently consecrated coordinating tourist trips to the Falkland Islands.

The people who used their services said that Chantada personally waited for her clients at the airport and was responsible for transferring them to their accommodation, thus relieving the situation of those who spoke only when they were talking to them. ;in Spanish.

In the list of fuegian voters, MacLeod is also the wife of Chantada and this explains that both declared the same address for the treatment in the civil registry.

By the way, about María Marta Villanueva, who appears in the register at "The Dolphins S / N. Falkland Islands", according to judicial sources, "it could be a woman born in 1945 and arrived in the islands in 1972, becoming one of four Argentinean residents before the 1982 conflict ".

Villanueva later acquired British nationality and became critical of Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the archipelago. After marrying the British naturist Ian Strange, she became better known as María Marta Strange and held advising positions in the local government. and representing until his retirement, added the sources.