The veda electoral curfew now in force inhibits forecasting the outcome of tomorrow’s midterms but this is a less irksome restriction than might meet the eye because in any case it would be pointless. The last nationwide vote in Argentina – the run-off on November 19, 2023 – was strictly an either/or proposition between two men with five-letter surnames beginning with “M” but tomorrow’s choice is anything but binary (although some would try to make it so). Voters are being asked to select not the next president but 127 deputies and 24 senators for which 217 lists are contending in the 23 provinces and this City with a total 1,648 candidates. The multiplicity of combinations arising from these numbers points to an infinity of results, each one of which would make the parliamentary negotiations lying ahead slightly different with no chance of any overall majority – 151 shades of grey.
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