There will not be new ballots: the ballots with Espert will be in the voting booth even though Santilli is at the top of the ticket
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The National Electoral Chamber (CNE) decided to definitively reject the reprinting of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) ballots in the province of Buenos Aires, so the image of José Luis Espert alongside Karen Reichardt will remain, even though Diego Santilli is now leading the ticket for the party.
The electoral court dismissed the request submitted by LLA representatives, who sought to replace Espert's image after his resignation and place Diego Santilli in his stead, as he is currently leading the list of candidates for national deputies for the liberal party in Buenos Aires province.
Diego Santilli junto a Javier Milei
According to the Chamber's decision, the modification is "factually impossible" to carry out due to electoral deadlines and the scale of the operation already underway. The ballots have been printed, stamped, and distributed throughout the district, so their reprinting would "alter the logistical organization of the election and jeopardize the integrity of the electoral process."
The ruling, communicated this Monday, also confirms what was established by the National Electoral Board of the Buenos Aires district, presided over by Judge Alejo Ramos Padilla, who had already warned about the "technical infeasibility" of the change. "The printing and distribution of the ballots is a task that involves more than 5,000 polling stations and millions of ballots already delivered," Padilla explained in previous statements, without addressing the confusion that could arise from not making the change in the distinction of the electoral offer.
Milei y Santilli en Mar del Plata
This way, the electoral authorities confirmed that all officialized La Libertad Avanza ballots in the province of Buenos Aires will retain the original design, which features José Luis Espert as the first candidate for national deputy, accompanied by Karen Reichardt, even though the Electoral Court decided that Diego Santilli should occupy that position on the final list.
The decision means that the Buenos Aires electorate will find an outdated ballot, with a candidate different from the one they would legally be voting for, after the reconfiguration of the party's candidates. The court argues that it wants to preserve the certainty and transparency of the electoral process, prioritizing "compliance with deadlines" even if this results, in practice, in voter confusion.
