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Vamos Corrientes Sweeps Province, Secures Legislative Majorities and 68 of 73 Municipalities

The landslide positions the Provincias Unidas governors' bloc to press for influence in the October legislative elections.

Overview

  • Governor Gustavo Valdés’s alliance will hold 18 of 30 seats in the provincial Chamber of Deputies and 12 of 15 in the Senate, reaching two-thirds in the upper house.
  • The ruling front captured 68 of Corrientes’ 73 municipalities and now governs roughly 90% of localities, including major cities such as the capital, Goya and Mercedes.
  • In the capital, Vamos CorrientesClaudio Polich won the mayoralty with 48.24% of the vote.
  • Results in Virasoro and Sauce remain under definitive recount after one-vote margins left the outcomes contested.
  • Provincial leaders cast the victory as strengthening the Provincias Unidas coalition ahead of the October 26 vote, as Valdés both criticized the national government’s austerity on retirees and advanced allies Diógenes González and Práxedes López on the national deputy list.