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Election Court Poised to Require Province-by-Province Reporting in Argentina’s Legislative Count

Judicial sources say the electoral court plans to instruct the government to release only provincial tallies after complaints that a national summary would misstate a district-based vote.

Overview

  • Argentina’s National Electoral Chamber is reviewing filings from the PJ, UCR and the Left and, according to judicial sources, is preparing a resolution to limit provisional results to district-level publication, potentially as soon as Tuesday.
  • The move follows a DINE simulation on Oct. 18 that displayed a consolidated “national” result—an approach opposition parties argue lacks legal basis for legislative races and could skew election-night narratives.
  • Fuerza Patria’s submission asks the court to bar any national aggregation, cites prior CNE transparency guidelines, and requests technical details on auditing, data access and publication mechanisms for the provisional count.
  • The government and DINE defend the simulacrum as successful and stress that any provisional or nationalized figures are informational with no legal effect, with presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni downplaying the opposition’s complaint.
  • Opposition groups are preparing an independent results tool to aggregate allied lists into broad blocs as a counter-narrative to any government-provided national summary.