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Buenos Aires Legislative Vote on Sunday Puts Third Section at the Center of a Polarized Race

Low participation could reshape the chamber balance, testing Axel Kicillof's leverage.

Overview

  • More than 14 million voters will choose deputies and senators across eight sections after Axel Kicillof separated the provincial calendar from the national vote.
  • The Third Section concentrates 5.1 million electors and 18 deputy seats, with Peronism deploying Verónica Magario and high-profile mayors in largely testimonial roles.
  • La Libertad Avanza campaigns on security in the southern conurbano, elevating ex–Buenos Aires police officer Maximiliano Iván Bondarenko to head its ticket against the PJ’s apparatus.
  • Parties are ramping up get-out-the-vote efforts as concern over abstention grows and section-level outcomes are expected to decide control of the Legislature.
  • Agro-linked candidates including Ariel Bianchi, Pedro Vigneau, Andrea Passerini, Andrés De Leo, Santiago Mac Goey and Jorge Metz seek seats across sections to push a production-focused agenda.