Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo assured that the newly implemented primary elections were “a complete success” and that this methodology “is here to stay.”
“If you take 2007 into consideration, there was a 66.20 percent of voter participation, while in 2009 it reached 76.9. Yesterday, it climbed to 77.82. There’s no doubt this proves that the primary elections are here to stay,” he stated.
The minister assured that the high turnout was due to “a population certain of the need to have candidates being selected through a wider, more democratic system that would leave behind the old candidate-picking methodologies.”
Source: buenosairesherald.com