Seven electoral alliances will compete in the Open, Simultaneous and Compulsory Primary Elections (PASO primaries) on August 13 – Frente de Todos change their name to Unión por la Patria but Juntos por el Cambio stay on brand.
A “nutty” initiative, Tierra del Fuego governor Gustavo Melella described the proposal by several Argentine lawmakers to create in Congress a Malvinas Islands bench, which would remain empty covered with an Argentine flag until the legitimate occupier arrives, a symbolic sovereignty claim over the Islands usurped by Great Britain.
A group of Argentine opposition lawmakers is sponsoring a bill to create a bench in the Lower House dedicated to the Malvinas Islands, which will remain symbolically empty until its “legitimate occupant” finally arrives.