The Buenos Aires municipal government elections will be held on June 5 
City Legislature approved this evening with the majority vote of the PRO and some political allies elections in the districts of the city for the June 5, 2011 and ordered that the authorities take in office on 10 December.
The conduct of the elections was generally approved by 52 votes and one abstention, while the date of election scored a total of 36 votes, and the assumption of authorities community together with national and local support garnered 47.
The special session, convened after a court ruling, began shortly after 19.40 and came to the vote minutes before midnight.
The debate came after a series of intense negotiations between the different sectors struggled to impose the date of the election, which under the Constitution of Buenos Aires had made eight years ago.
The macrismo claimed that the elections were made in 2011, while the opposition preferred to 2010 for obscuring the discussion of issues clearly neighborhood.
Si bien el oficialismo logró que los comicios se realicen en 2011, no consiguió consenso para postergar la definición de las fecha hasta ese año y debió sumarse al proyecto de los bloques Peronista, Juventud Yrigoyenista e Identidad Porteña, que impulsaban la fecha del 5 de junio de 2011 para concretar las elecciones.
El bloque macrista del PRO promovió que las elecciones se concretaran en 2011 bajo los argumentos de que en la Ciudad "no existe" una "estructura adecuada" para su organización y que la sociedad "no puede ser convocada" a un acto electoral "permanentemente".
Debate. Oscar Moscariello, presidente official block, considered at the meeting that elections must be "institutional guarantees" adequate, and suggested that the first commune elections must mean "a consistent pace" to improve the "quality of democratic representation."
On the other hand, the national deputy for the Socialist Party, Roy Cortina, the driving force of the Law of Municipalities, said that "to set a date for 2011, Macri continues delaying the implementation of the communes and win time to make excuses and do not meet the City Charter. "
The ruling party "had the help of good friends, those who call themselves opposition and politicians are complicit, "said Patricia Walsh, meanwhile, (New Left) in his speech in the debate.
legislator said that the mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri," does not want or care " communes, but came to the designation of the date of elections "by judicial duty" after a ruling some time ago by Judge Maria Servini de Cubria.
Meanwhile, Silvia La Ruffa (Identity Porteña) recognized that "the perfect proposal" to conduct the election was "2010", but urged the June 5, 2011 "to be a date that is not linked with any other calendar choice "and" meets the criterion of majority "of MPs.
The appointment of the day to finalize the vote needed the support of 40 votes in the precinct.
Background. According to the Constitution City, Buenos Aires communes should be in office on October 1, 2001.
The Constitution, in its transitional clause 17, provided "the first election of members" in "a period of not less than four years or more than five years from the enactment of the constitution, which was the October 1, 1996.
the 15 communities were raised, together with the local Constitution, as independent administrative units tending to a decentralized management scheme and citizen participation.
Agencies Télam and DyN
