Overview
- On Tuesday Raúl Jalil, governor of Catamarca, said PASO primaries “do not serve society” and publicly backed eliminating them in an interview with Futurock.
- Jalil urged that parties should pick candidates through internal primaries or consensuses and said the current open, compulsory PASO act like an expensive opinion poll that weakens party structures.
- He rejected the return of listas colectoras as a personal position, arguing that party identity should be strengthened rather than blurred by multiple-list candidacies.
- Jalil confirmed he will keep talking with the national government, said he will attend Independence Day events, and defended the RIGI investment regime for accelerating mining projects in Catamarca.
- The comment shifts the debate into a negotiating phase because governors hold decisive sway over any reform, so talks between provinces, the Casa Rosada and Congress are likely to continue after the winter recess.