Overview of the Democratic System in Argentina:
2015's Election:
[1] Argentina Independent: Politics
[2] Es oficial: hay fecha para las PASO y las elecciones generales Diario Registrado, 2 September 2014 (Spanish)
[3] Simon Romero and Jonathan Gilbert (November 22, 2015). "In Rebuke to Kirchner, Argentines Elect Opposition Leader Mauricio Macri as President". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
- In Argentina, the president is both head of the state and head of the government. The government works on a multi-party system where the two most important parties are the Partido Justicialista which was developed by Perón from the 1940s (better known as the Peronists) and the Unión Cívica Radical founded in 1890 (the Radicals). The Legislative Branch is a bicameral Congress, which consists of the Senate (72 seats), presided by the vice-president – currently Amado Boudou – and the Chamber of Deputies (257 Seats), currently presided by Julián Domínguez, deputy for the Province of Buenos Aires.
- The Argentina National Congress building in Buenos Aires (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Senators serve six-year terms, with one-third standing for re-election every two years. Members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected to four-year terms by a proportional representation system, with half of the members standing for re-election every two years. A third of the candidates presented by the parties must be women.
- The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. The Supreme Court has seven members appointed by the president in consultation with the Senate. The judges of all the other courts are appointed by the Council of Magistrates of the Nation, a secretariat composed of representatives of judges, lawyers, the Congress and the executive.[1]
2015's Election:
- A general election (i.e. both presidential and legislative) was held in Argentina on 25 October 2015, following primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015. A second round of voting between the two leading candidates took place on 22 November, after surprisingly close results forced a runoff.[2]On the first runoff voting ever held for an Argentine Presidential Election, opposition leader and Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri narrowly defeated FPV candidate and Buenos Aires ProvinceGovernor Daniel Scioli. [3]
[1] Argentina Independent: Politics
[2] Es oficial: hay fecha para las PASO y las elecciones generales Diario Registrado, 2 September 2014 (Spanish)
[3] Simon Romero and Jonathan Gilbert (November 22, 2015). "In Rebuke to Kirchner, Argentines Elect Opposition Leader Mauricio Macri as President". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
Current Government
