00:00For more information in Argentina, on Thursday the Senate approved the bill promoted by President
00:04Javier Milley that suspends the primary, open, simultaneous and compulsory elections, also
00:10known as PASO, in the run-up to the legislative elections of next October.
00:15The project to eliminate the PASO elections was presented by Javier Milley with the argument
00:20that these primary elections, in which the vote of the citizens is obligatory, are costly
00:26and in reality are useless because most of the candidacies are already defined beforehand
00:32and there are practically no internal elections in the parties.
00:36The initiative was endorsed with 43 votes in favor, 20 against and 6 abstentions becoming
00:43law, and it only needs the promulgation of President Milley to enter into force.
00:49Other sectors call this as a turn against democracy.
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