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On 13 August 2023,[1] [2] the Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASO) were held in Argentina to determine candidatures for national offices in the presidential and legislative elections on 22 October 2023. It was the first election where Peronism lost and ended in third place.[3]
In these primary elections, the candidates for President of Argentina and national legislators (national senators and deputies) will be elected. However, the fronts that will compete independently, to be qualified for the general elections in October, must meet the requirement of reaching at least 1.5% of the valid votes. While in the fronts with several candidates, the candidate with the most votes with the aforementioned minimum is enabled.
The elections for provincial offices (governors, provincial deputies, provincial senators, etc.) and municipal (mayors, councilors, etc.) are independent of the elections for national offices and may or may not be held on the same dates.
Citizens of 16 years of age and also people of 15 years of age who turn before October 27 (with the exception of the province of Córdoba) will also be authorized to vote.
The Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASO) will be held on 13 August 2023. With this system, the candidates are elected within each alliance, in the same mandatory electoral act, in which citizens can vote for any pre-candidate from any party, but they can only cast one vote. When there is more than one pre-candidate per alliance, the one that obtains the most votes will be chosen as that alliance's candidate for the general elections, to be held two months later. The PASO also define which forces can appear in the general elections, since only those that obtain a minimum of 1.5% of the valid votes can do so.
It had the particularity that in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA), to vote for the head of the Buenos Aires government, an electronic ballot was used.
| List | Pre-Candidates | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| President | Vice President | ||||||
| Union for the Homeland | 134 A | Sergio Massa | Agustín Rossi | [4] | |||
| 134 B | Juan Grabois | Paula Abal Medina | |||||
| Juntos por el Cambio | 132 A | Horacio Rodríguez Larreta | Gerardo Morales | ||||
| 132 B | Patricia Bullrich | Luis Petri | |||||
| La Libertad Avanza | 135 A | Javier Milei | Victoria Villarruel | ||||
| Workers' Left Front | 136 A | Myriam Bregman | Nicolás del Caño | ||||
| 136 B | Gabriel Solano | Vilma Ripoll | |||||
| Hacemos por Nuestro País | 133 A | Juan Schiaretti | Florencio Randazzo | ||||
| Principles and Values | 137 1A | Guillermo Moreno | Leonardo Fabre | ||||
| 137 2B | Eliodoro Martínez | Vicente Souto | |||||
| 137 3C | Jorge Oliver | Ezequiel San Martín | |||||
| 137 4D | Carina Bartolini | Mabel Gómez | |||||
| 137 5E | Paula Arias | Walter Vera | |||||
| Frente Liber.AR | 131 A | Demos | Nazareno Etchepare | Fernando Lorenzo | |||
| 131 B | Ramiro Vasena | Aníbal Lagonegro | |||||
| 131 C | Julio Bárbaro | Ramona Pucheta | |||||
| Freemen of the South | 40 A | Jesús Escobar | Marianella Lezama Hid | ||||
| New Movement for Socialism | 13 | Manuela Castañeira | Lucas Ruiz | ||||
| Política Obrera | 92 | Marcelo Ramal | Patricia Urones | ||||
| Youth and Dignity Left Movement | 90 A | Raúl Castells | Adriana Reinoso | ||||
| 90 B | Confederal | Santiago Cúneo | Gustavo Barranco | ||||
| Proyecto Joven | 94 A | Mempo Giardinelli | Bárbara Solernou | ||||
| 94 B | Martín Ayerbe | Hugo Rodríguez | |||||
| 94 C | Todex | Reina Xiomara Ibáñez | Gonzalo Ibarra | ||||
| Federal Patriot Front | 95 | César Biondini | Mariel Avedaño | ||||
| Union of the Democratic Centre | 20 A | Andrés Passamonti | Pamela Fernández | ||||
| Neighborhood Action Movement | 57 | Raúl Albarracín | Sergio Pastore | ||||
| Primary | Hour | Final | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | +/- | 14:00 | 15:00 | +/- | 16:00 | 17:00 | +/- | 18:20 | |||
| 2019 | 30% | 2% | 42% | 48% | 0% | 58% | 66% | 4.5% | — | 76.4% | [5] |
| 2023 | 28% | — | 48% | — | 61.5% | 66% | 69,6% | [6] [7] [8] [9] | |||
| Party | Presidential candidate | Running mate | Candidate votes | Overall votes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
| bgcolor= | La Libertad Avanza | Javier Milei | Victoria Villarruel | 7,352,244 | 29.86 | 7,352,244 | 29.86 | |
| Together for Change | Patricia Bullrich | Luis Petri | 4,139,566 | 16.81 | 6,895,941 | 28.00 | ||
| Horacio Rodríguez Larreta | Gerardo Morales | 2,756,375 | 11.19 | |||||
| Union for the Homeland | Sergio Massa | Agustín Rossi | 5,277,538 | 21.43 | 6,719,042 | 27.28 | ||
| Juan Grabois | Paula Abal Medina | 1,441,504 | 5.85 | |||||
| bgcolor= | We Do for Our Country | Juan Schiaretti | Florencio Randazzo | 914,812 | 3.71 | 914,812 | 3.71 | |
| Left and Worker's Front-Unity | Myriam Bregman | Nicolás del Caño | 451,275 | 1.83 | 642,773 | 2.61 | ||
| Gabriel Solano | Vilma Ripoll | 191,498 | 0.78 | |||||
| Principles and Values | Guillermo Moreno | Leonardo Fabre | 189,756 | 0.77 | 194,160 | 0.79 | ||
| Eliodoro Martínez | Vicente Souto | 2,516 | 0.01 | |||||
| Paula Arias | Walter Vera | 1,507 | 0.01 | |||||
| Jorge Oliver | Ezequiel San Martín | 197 | 0.00 | |||||
| Carina Bartolini | Mabel Gómez | 184 | 0.00 | |||||
| Freemen of the South Movement | Jesús Escobar | Marianella Lezama Hid | 158,840 | 0.65 | 158,840 | 0.65 | ||
| New Movement for Socialism | Manuela Castañeira | Lucas Ruiz | 87,681 | 0.36 | 87,681 | 0.36 | ||
| Youth and Dignity Left Movement | Santiago Cúneo | Gustavo Barranco | 57,754 | 0.23 | 84,361 | 0.34 | ||
| Raúl Castells | Adriana Reinoso | 26,607 | 0.11 | |||||
| bgcolor= | Workers' Party | Marcelo Ramal | Patricia Urones | 64,213 | 0.26 | 64,213 | 0.26 | |
| Federal Patriot Front | César Biondini | Mariel Avedaño | 51,850 | 0.21 | 51,850 | 0.21 | ||
| bgcolor= | Neighbourhood Action Movement | Raúl Albarracín | Sergio Pastore | 43,480 | 0.18 | 43,480 | 0.18 | |
| Youth Project | Mempo Giardinelli | Bárbara Solernou | 11,944 | 0.05 | 24,304 | 0.10 | ||
| Martín Ayerbe | Hugo Rodríguez | 8,829 | 0.04 | |||||
| Reina Xiomara Ibáñez | Gonzalo Ibarra | 3,531 | 0.01 | |||||
| Liber.AR | Ramiro Vasena | Aníbal Lagonegro | 12,990 | 0.05 | 23,554 | 0.10 | ||
| Nazareno Etchepare | Fernando Lorenzo | 7,732 | 0.03 | |||||
| Julio Bárbaro | Ramona Pucheta | 2,832 | 0.01 | |||||
| bgcolor= | Union of the Democratic Centre | Andrés Passamonti | Pamela Fernández | 12,041 | 0.05 | 12,041 | 0.05 | |
| Blank votes | 1,356,480 | 5.51 | ||||||
| Total | 24,625,776 | 100 | ||||||
| Valid votes | 24,625,776 | 98.76 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 309,807 | 1.24 | ||||||
| Total votes | 24,935,583 | 100 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 35,405,013 | 70.43 | ||||||
| Source:[10] [11] | ||||||||
Milei and his coalition's win achieved international recognition and headlines, from The New York Times to El País and Latin American media and Asian news agencies, which reported on Milei's surprise win and the uncertain electoral scenario in Argentina for the 2023 October general election.[12] Analysts saw his win as the voters being frustrated by both Peronist and non-Peronist governments.[13]