The Civic Front for Santiago obtained this Sunday the victory in 25 of the 26 municipalities of Santiago del Estero where mayors and councilors were elected, and its maximum reference and current governor of the province, Gerardo Zamora, congratulated all the winning space candidates , while in the city of La Banda the Renovating and Progressive Front prevailed.
In the capital, with 96.80% of the polling stations counted, the current mayor, Norma Fuentes, achieved her re-election with 45.40% of the vote (64,398), and a wide advantage over second place, the opposition candidate, Together for Cambio, Natalia Neme, who obtained 28.26% of the votes (40,082), while Fernando Giménez, the candidate of the Renovador Front, came in third place with 8.45% of the votes (11,987).
In the city of La Banda, the second most important in the province, with 76.64% of the polling stations counted, the current mayor Roger Nediani, of the Renovating and Progressive Front, won his re-election with 36.68% of the votes. (17,667), leaving as second force the candidate of the Civic Front for Santiago, Llamil Abdala, with 31.68% of votes (15,260) and far below as third force the Viable Patriotic Front with 18.33% of the votes (8,830) .
Tonight, Governor Zamora, in his bunker, accompanied by the re-elected mayor of the capital, Norma Fuentes, congratulated all the community leaders and elected councilors throughout the province and emphasized: “Our space will continue to work in favor of all Santiago residents. ”;.
He also greeted “engineer Nediani” for the result in the city of Bandeña and wished him “the best of success”.
“I am one more neighbor to elect mayor, the elections began with a slow opening but at this time they are developing with total normality. We are hoping that there will be a little more percentage in the Capital, in La Banda and in the interior of the province” , assured the governor, Gerardo Zamora, after casting his vote around noon in a school in the capital of Santiago.
In the elections, it was defined who will be in charge of 26 local mayors, since two districts elected authorities last year. “We can look at municipalism with much better expectations because the cities are growing. Likewise, more autonomy is given to the municipalities and that is why we are choosing in an even year, to take them off and then to elect a governor,” Zamora already told the waiting for the results of the election, which had a participation of about seventy percent of the voter registry.
In the provincial capital, the mayor, Norma Fuentes, stressed that “in these elections, the communal management and everything that was done is plebiscitated, therefore it is for the consideration of the electorate, taking into account that the municipalities are the first contact that the neighbors have.” , with the state. She then met with Governor Zamora at the headquarters of the Civic Front to follow the vote count.