Santa Fe kicks off the 2025 electoral calendar

Santa Fe inaugurates the 2025 electoral calendar this Sunday in a day that will include Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASO) in 11 municipalities and general elections to elect the reforming conventions that will modify the Constitution after historical approval by the Legislature in 2024.This will be the first provincial election of the year since the government of Maximiliano Pullaro split the local bid aligned with other Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, Salta, Chaco, Jujuy, San Luis, Misiones and the City of Buenos Aires. However, most of them chose to suspend their respective primaries, which will not happen in Santa Fe.

Santa Fe Elections 2025 DataA total of 2,834,383 citizens are eligible to vote. The election of convention members, where the 69 leaders who will reform the Magna Carta — 50 per Single District and 19 per department — will be defined, will be the most important election. To enter, they will have to obtain at least 2.



5% of the votes. Twelve lists will compete.The body will have the obligation to modify 42 articles of the Santa Fe Constitution and may also add new ones.

This will be the first modification in 63 years, the last one taking place in 1962.One of the most critical points is the reelection for governor. Together with Mendoza, Santa Fe is the only district that will not contemplate this item.

Now, the official offer is that everyone, from local deputies and senators to the chief magistrate, will have the chance to run for a second term.This would limit the current indefinite reelection of legislators, but would give them an opportunity to extend their term of office.Maximiliano Pullaro’s administration in Santa FeIn the political arena, the focus will be on the figure of Governor Maximiliano Pullaro, who will be a candidate for Unidos para Cambiar Santa Fe, the motley crew that gathers radicals, PRO and socialism, among other forces.

The coalition managed to sustain itself in spite of the differences and will arrive in good shape to the electoral bid. However, sources in the province government believe they will be dispersed for the national elections in October.Specifically, Pullaro’s nomination will give a different face to the elections, since it will be an open referendum to his first year.

Leveraged on his good numbers, the governor will look for a strong victory, which will provide him with enough seats to control the threads of the constitutional reform. Two of the main issues in the province are security and public works, the former always tied to the ups and downs of the Rosario underworld; the latter is one of the agendas with which his administration tries to differentiate itself from President Javier Milei’s “chainsaw” plan.During the last week of the campaign, the President made a base in Rosario, the main electoral stronghold of the province.

Provincial officials are optimistic about a difference between 15 and 20 points over the pursuer. Two factors push this idea: the role of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) as a debutant and the fracture of Peronism, which will compete fragmented into three lists.Despite the prevailing enthusiasm, the Santa Fe government warns that, unlike 2023, where the vote was polarized with the duel between the current governor and Peronism’s Marcelo Lewandowski, the introduction of LLA could imply a leak of votes from the ruling party.

Baptism of fire for La Libertad AvanzaThe presidential party will have as head of the list the national deputy Nicolás Mayoraz, within the structure that had Romina Diez, a fellow member of his party in the Congress, as its assembler. One of the big questions is what place the party will occupy, considering that the surname Milei will not be on the ballot.It will be, they say, a bet more on the brand than on the name itself.

Another open question is how the candidacy of Amalia Granata, who will play outside the LLA front, despite sharing the ideological spectrum with the President’s supporters, will impact.In the recent past, Granata tried a rapprochement with the Casa Rosada through Santiago Caputo. However, she was vetoed by the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei, who did not forgive the provincial deputy’s attacks against her brother.

Beyond the stumbles of the last months, the President maintains acceptable levels of popularity. Therefore, they aim to capitalize on that image in his headquarters, with the challenge of transferring the support to Mayoraz.If they don’t have a good election, they will be able to appeal to what happened two years ago, when, despite the sum of defeats in the provinces, Milei managed to reach Rivadavia’s leader.

At that time, his party did not exist as such in the districts and competed with borrowed stamps. That is the substantial difference today.Elections in Santa Fe: Peronism will compete with three listsIt is a different story for Peronism, which could not overcome its internal squabbles and will compete fractured in three lists.

The most important is Más para Santa Fe, led by Juan Monteverde, who in 2023 was on the verge of winning the mayoralty of Rosario against the current mayor, Pablo Javkin. The PJ, La Cámpora, Movimiento Evita, and Frente Renovador coexist, among others.Monteverde will have to repeat his good performance in Rosario, although his main challenge will be to make himself known to the rest of the province.

Formerly a graphic designer, his candidacy is a bet on the renewal of Peronism, which suffered a major setback when he lost the governorship in 2023. When asked by Ámbito, his camp expressed their satisfaction for having been able to broaden the 2023 alliance and remarked that their expectations are “very good”. “The fact that Juan can lead Peronism is part of that victory”, they pointed out.

In the district there are important figures of the PJ, such as Agustín Rossi and the president of the UP bench in the Chamber of Deputies, Germán Martínez.Monteverde tried a campaign of closeness, which included the initiative “Constituents of the People”, where neighbors from different localities could raise their concerns about what they would like to see in the constitutional reform. “Spirits were quite low because of the last experiences.

Now, with Juan’s candidacy, expectations and hopes have been raised again”, they explained.Peronism will pay special attention to how the dispute will be settled between their official list and those who were left out, such as Activemos, which will lead the national senator Marcelo Lewandowski. The precise decision not to include primaries in the fight for this election was one of the main splinters for Peronism.

More relegated in the starting point but also in the Peronist orbit appears the constitutional lawyer Roberto Sukerman, who held several positions in local politics. Sukerman will head the list of País Santa Fe.The colorful part of the election will be the participation of former world boxing champion Alejandra “Locomotora” Oliveras, head of the Frente de la Esperanza list.

Most recently, the athlete accompanied Patricia Bullrich in her candidacy for the presidency of Argentina in 2023.On the other hand, there will be PASO to elect candidates; in 11 cities for mayors; in 53 cities, candidates for municipal councilors will be elected; and in 75 cities, candidates for members of communal commissions and comptrollers will be elected. The general elections in these categories will be held on Sunday, June 29.

In all cases, the Single Paper Ballot (BUP) system will be used.La entrada Santa Fe kicks off the 2025 electoral calendar se publicó primero en Buenos Aires Herald..