Overview

• Jorge Porcel Jr. has been named as the third candidate on Marcelo Peretta’s Movimiento Plural list for national deputies in Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
• The slate, led by Peretta of the Pharmacists and Biochemists Union, includes 13 primary and 7 alternate nominees aiming to showcase plural representation.
• Porcel Jr.’s media controversies include a 2014 televised demand for a 20,000-peso salary and an audio clip in which he solicited money for an interview.
• He and Movimiento Plural pledge a centrist fiscal policy that preserves a manageable deficit while safeguarding pensioners, people with disabilities and cultural and scientific sectors.
• The candidacy reflects a broader trend of entertainment figures entering politics during an election campaign dominated by fiscal debates between Javier Milei’s movement and kirchnerismo.