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By Decree No. 343 published today in the Official Journal The government has called for the holding of presidential and legislative elections for both PASO and the general elections to be held on October 27, while setting the date of November 24 for the presidential vote.
Regarding the renewal of the 43 parliamentarians of Mercosur, the decree states that "under the joint declaration on the functioning of the Parliament of Mercosur of April 16, 2019, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, which suspends provisions of the constitutive protocol of the Mercosur Parliament regarding the direct election of parliamentarians, it is not appropriate to call the electors of the Nation to vote in this category ".
In this regard, he argues that "the Directorate of Legal Affairs of the Coordination Secretariat of the Ministry of the Interior, Public Works and Housing has retained the intervention of its jurisdiction".
As a result, the government has called for the August 11th STEP, and the call extends to the presidential elections of October 27th, the same day as the senators and the national deputies, in the same positions as for the primaries.
The decree signed by President Mauricio Macri establishes that, as is customary in all national elections, the Ministry of the Interior, Public Works and Housing (of Rogelio Frigerio), by the Ministry intermediary of the National Elections Directorate, which adopts the "necessary measures for the organization and implementation" of the elections.
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