Balance on the Legislative Elections of October of 2005

After Sunday 23 of October, the Peronist Government of Kirchner presented/displayed the results of the legislative elections like a full endorsement to his management. Also, with the support of press means the Government was in charge to indicate the high concurrence of the electorate, but this was asi '?

The Government has consolidated his power in the House of Representatives: now he has 122 banks (adding to its allies) to only 7 banks of the own quorum. In as much, in the Senate he managed to add 43 banks (adding to its allies), 6 more of the necessary ones to obtain the same aim that in Deputies. Therefore he is deduced that the laws that the Government considers vital are going to be promulgated without disadvantage some. The "ties" for the policy of Kirchner were finished. From now on it has the power with no need to legislate and to execute of pacts in the Congress or the use of decrees of necessity and urgency. In fact, one of the first measures of the Government after the elections, was the one to promote the discussion of the "social pact" between the CGT and the UIA, for this way putting in box to the increasing social conflicts.

On the other hand, the strategy of alliance of the Government with the cross-sectional calls (divided and personalities autodefinidas like centroizquierdistas) and the little right to exercice civil rights of the representatives of the right (Macri, Lopez Murphy, Sobisch) has finished with the possibility of a competing figure to the Government. This way it is consolidated the unique party of the bourgeoisie, since from the Binner Socialist to the Peronist Of the Sota, or the ex- menemista Maza, between many others, agrees with the policy that the government is carrying out and the proposals that the same one for the future has. Within this strategy, we can see as the Peronist Party is being dragged to the extinction like traditional party. It already expressed president Kirchner and several civil employees of second line that the Front For the Victory, party created by the government, is an expression superior to the one of the Peronist Party in the traditional form that had existed until now.

Nevertheless the victory of the oficialismo did not taste that they waited for, since they lost in three of the five key districts of the country: Independent city of Buenos Aires, Province of Santa Fe and Province of Mendoza. In as much in the Province of Cordova they prevailed in alliance with an historical one over the menemismo, happened recently in pro-government official. In the Province of Buenos Aires they had a comfortable triumph with respect to the other parties.

The real numbers of the elections

In the elections, that in our country are obligatory, 71% of the total of the electoral register voted, which indicates that the abstention was of 29%. This number is superior to the abstention that occurred in the legislative elections of 2001 (26%), in the presidential ones of 1995 (18%) and in the presidential ones of 2003 that consecrated president to Kirchner (22%). Not only this, but that the abstention from these elections only is surpassed by the presidential elections of 1922 when the abstention was of 44.5 %.

Also the negative vote was important (in target, null or opposed). At national level the percentage was of 9.24% of the emitted votes, being located in the fourth position behind the two currents of the Peronism and the U.C.R.. Beyond of not to have approached the numbers of 2001 (21% of the emitted votes, that were denominated as the vote quarrel), the percentage reached in these elections were located over the presidential ones of 1995 (7,5%), of the presidential ones of 1999 (5%) and if we took like reference the presidential elections of 2003 (1,9%), the percentage of negative votes quintuplicó.

On the other hand, it is significant as voted more the economically developed districts: in the Province of Buenos Aires the abstention was of 27.19 % and the negative vote of 10.14%, in the Independent City of Buenos Aires 27.66 % and 4.80%, in the Province of Cordova 33.25% and 8.60%, in the Province of Santa Fe 26.67% and 11.64, in the Province of Mendoza 27.08% and 8,99%.

Contrary, the greater percentage of assistants to vote and the greater percentage of positive votes were registered in the slowst provinces, where the political caudillismo follows still on: Province of the Rioja and Province of Pampas (greater concurrence of voters) and Province of Chaco, Province of Jumps and Province of Tucumán (greater percentage of positive votes).

These data it is come off that 35.4% of the electoral register did not go to vote or did it negatively, whereas the oficialismo obtained 26.1% of the register. Also, no political force of the call opposition, surpasses 10% of the total of the register. These numbers indicate to us, among other things, that are consolidating two great parties within the electoral system: those that vote positively, and those that do not choose any of the proposals of the system. This last option was not an expression of an organized sector, was not a proposal raised by great parties, only small groups dedicated to military man the negative vote or the abstention. Therefore, a task to future considers as the one of encausar in a new tool the negative vote, the abstention and including the vote to small parties of "real" the left call, many of which were the product of the absence of a truely revolutionary organization.

The working-class follows without counting on a party that represents them. A party with a revolutionary doctrine based on the fight of classes, a party that defends the interests of the workers and that discusses the power to him to the bourgeoisie.