In the midst of the tension between Javier Miley and the governors Due to the joint funds, a survey measured the image of the provincial and municipal leaders, showing red numbers for Justicialism, the party with the greatest projection at the federal level.
With 41.7 percent positive image, Axel Kicillof He was one of the worst qualified according to data collected by the consulting firm CB. The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, the main electoral district of the country, was barely surpassed by his counterpart from La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, who held the last place in the ranking of governors. A similar scenario occurred at the municipal level, where the drastic decline in the image of the mayor of the capital of Buenos Aires, La Plata, stood out. July Wine.
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The survey was carried out between April 1 and 4, 2024 on 18,664 cases nationwide, totaling between 630 and 1,255 cases per province, with a margin of error of between 4 and 5 percent. While the respondents, all over 16 years of age, were stratified by provincial districts, the study authors indicated.
The measurement occurred in a context of strong tension between the national Executive and the governors due to the suspension of automatic and discretionary transfers -among other funds-; and in the middle of the meetings prior to the May Pact, a moment in which President Javier Milei will gamble on the support of the subnational leaders for the Bases Law. The decrease in the provincial coffers was also accompanied by the paralysis of public works, another of the treasury adjustment measures dictated by the head of state since he took office on December 10.
In the last month the governors met with national cabinet officials.
The ranking of the governors
Peronism starred in the lowest scale of the ranking of positive image of the governors. With 41.5 percent, Ricardo Quintela, from La Rioja, came in last place. He was followed by the governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, with 41.7 percent of positive image.
The Buenos Aires president, who went to the Supreme Court to confront the Milei government, faced drastic cuts in co-participating funds for the province that collects the most nationally. But he also promoted a huge tax that was approved in the local Legislature and provoked the fury of taxpayers, reaching increases of up to 200 percent by 2024, which led to requests for “tax rebellion” and judicial presentations.
Axel Kicillof’s numbers. Photo: CB Consulting.
The third governor who completes the podium of the worst qualified is the Rio Negro Alberto Weretilneck, with 42.2% positive image. In addition, the leader of the Juntos Somos Río Negro party was the one who had the biggest drop in image (-3.2 percent). The rest of the governors with a negative image greater than the positive one are Salta Gustavo Saenz (43.8%); the puntano Claudio Poggi (48.6%); and the neuquino Rolando Figueroa (49,2%).
On the other hand, the three governors most valued in April 2024 by their citizens were Hugo Passalacqua, Frente de la Concordia Misionero, a party associated with the Frente Renovador of former Minister of Economy Sergio Massa. The governor of Misiones, meanwhile, led the ranking with 64.5 percent of positive image.
Hugo Passalacqua, from Misiones, topped the ranking.
In second place was the Corrientes Gustavo Valdes, from the Radical Civic Union, with 64.2 percent; while the top 3 was closed by the Peronist Osvaldo Jaldo of Tucumán with 62.9 percent of positive image.
The study makes special mention of the governor of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, which garnered a 61.2 percent positive image and was the one that grew the most in this indicator, marking 4.2 percentage points of growth in April (compared to the previous measurement). The provincial chief is dedicated to the fight against violence associated with drug trafficking and drug dealing that particularly hit the city of Rosario in recent months.
The ranking of governors is completed Ignacio Torres, from Chubut (62.9%); the chacoeño Leandro Zdero (59.7%); the pampas Sergio Ziliotto (59.5%); the cordoban Martin Llaryora (58.6%); the mendocino Alfredo Cornejo (56.5%); the jujeño Carlos Sadir (55,9%); Carlos Jalíl from Catamarca (55.4%); the Fuegian Gustavo Melella (55%); the sanjuanino Marcelo Orrego (54.9%); Gerardo Zamora from Santiago (53.5%); the mayor of Buenos Aires Jorge Macri (53,3%); y Rogelio Frigeriofrom Entre Ríos (52.5%).
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The ranking of mayors
Based on 10,257 cases and a sampling error between 4 and 5 percent, the CB Consultora study produced the ranking of the more than 500 municipal heads at the national level.
The three mayors with the worst image in their city this month were Julio Wine, the mayor of the Buenos Aires city of La Plata who won the final fight against Macrista Julio Garro in the 2023 elections. With 37.9 percent positive imagethe local leader was left in last placefollowed by Armando Molina from the city of La Rioja (38.4%) and Walter Emptyfrom Ushuaia (38.5%).
Julio Alak, mayor of La Plata.
On the other hand, the three Mayors at the federal level with the highest ratings in April were Gustavo Sastre, from the city of Puerto Madryn (60%), followed by Leandro Stelatto, from Posadas (59.5%), and Matías Stevanato from the Mendoza city of Maipú (57.6%).
Likewise, the mayor who grew his image the most compared to our last measurement was Gustavo Saadi, from San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca (+6.1%), while Julio Alak from the City of La Plata was the one who fell the most (-5.8%). in the measurement that was carried out in the first days of April.
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