El Frente Cambia Mendoza’s Alfredo Cornejo was elected governor of Mendoza with 46.82% of the votes in yesterday’s provincial ballot.
Cornejo defeated FvP’s Adolfo Bermejo, who obtained 39.06% of the votes, marking a setback for the president’s party after eight years ruling the province.
Alfredo Cornejo is the governor-elect of Mendoza province (Photo via Alfredo Cornejo official FB page)
Cornejo, the current mayor of Godoy Cruz, was the candidate representing an alliance formed between the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) and the PRO party. “There is a desire for change that was expressed today in Mendoza and I hope it’s expressed throughout the country,” the governor-elect said last night.
“We have a historical achievement of renewing the governor position of the province and in addition, the first woman vice governor of this province has been elected,” said Cornejo, referring to his running mate, Laura Montero.
In third place, Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores’ Noelia Barbeito obtained 10.41% of the votes.
Tierra del Fuego
Elsewhere, Frente para la Victoria (FpV)’s Rosana Bertone claimed a narrow victory in yesterday’s elections for governor of Tierra del Fuego, not enough to avoid a ballotage.
Bertone won the first round of elections with 42.28% of the votes, followed by UNIR-TDF’s Federico Sciurano, who obtained 33.30% of the votes.
The second round run-off will take place on 28th June.
“It is important for us to recognise that in this first round the FvP has won the election. We will have the ballotage next week because none of the political forces reached 50% plus one [of the votes],” said Sciurano, current mayor of Ushuaia.
Bertone, a national senator for Tierra del Fuego, hopes to have the same results next Sunday, “I want to thank immensely the people of Tierra del Fuego for this act of democracy, thanking those who voted for me and those who did not vote me.”
Partido Social Patagónico’s Roberto Crocianelli came in third with 6.24% of the votes, followed by ex national senator, Nuevo Encuentro’s Osvaldo Lopez, who obtained 5.69% of the votes.
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