Polling stations opened this Sunday at 08.00 local time (11.00 GMT) in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, that elects local representatives in key elections for the aspirations of the party of the ultra-rightist president Javier Milei to be the main representative of the Argentine right-wing.

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Approximately 2.5 million citizens are eligible to vote in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to renew half of the 60 seats of the Porteña Legislature, while the first polling results are expected to be released after closing of the polls at 18.00 local time.

The electoral process is conducted using an electronic voting system with a single ballot, a technology already used in the 2023 capital primaries, where it was criticized for technical failures that caused delays and led to the intervention of the electoral court.

The election in the city of Buenos Aires, crucial because of its autonomy and symbolic weight, is an important political indicator before the national legislative elections in October. The results of these local elections could influence strategies and trends for the contest for the Argentine Congress.

In total, 17 lists are competing, in a political landscape marked by fragmentation and an intense dispute between the Republican Proposal (Pro) party, led by former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), and La Libertad Avanza (LLA), the force of the current president.

This election represents a new chapter in the struggle for hegemony of the Argentine right wing, in a district governed by Pro since 2007, and where the lack of a unified list between LLA and Pro reflects the deterioration of the alliance that both forces maintained at the national level in 2023 and at the parliamentary level in 2024.

The main candidates are presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni (LLA), national deputy Silvia Lospennato (Pro), and Peronist deputy Leandro Santoro, from the progressive front Es Ahora Buenos Aires, who leads the polls, favored by the division between conservative forces.

Also competing are former Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who leads the Volvamos Buenos Aires list after distancing himself from Macrismo, and other figures such as Ramiro Marra, Vanina Biasi, Alejandro Kim, and Lucille Levy, who represent various political spaces.

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