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Argentina held national parliamentary elections on Sunday, 23 October 2005. For the purpose of these elections, each of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are considered electoral districts. Each district elected a number of members of the Lower House (the Argentine Chamber of Deputies) roughly proportional to their population. Eight districts (Buenos Aires, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Misiones, San Juan, San Luis, and Santa Cruz) also elected members to the Upper House of Congress (the Argentine Senate); as usual, three senators were elected (two for the majority, one for the first minority). In most provinces, the national elections were conducted in parallel with local ones, whereby a number of municipalities elected legislative officials (''concejales'') and in some cases also a mayor (or the equivalent executive post). Each provincial election followed local regulations. A number of districts had held primary elections beforehand. In most cases, primary elections are optional and can be called for by the local political parties as needed; in Santa Fe, however, the primaries were universal and compulsory due to a recent law that repealed the much-criticized Ley de Lemas. Turnout continued to decline, and reached 70.9% in these elections. ==Background== The main parties and coalitions competing in these elections were: * President Kirchner's faction of Peronism, called ''Frente para la Victoria'' (FV, "Front for Victory") and its allies. * Other factions of Peronism, under the usual name ''Partido Justicialista'' (PJ, "Justicialist Party"), often led by their respective provincial party leaders (notably Eduardo Duhalde in Buenos Aires Province). * ''Unión Cívica Radical'' (UCR, "Radical Civic Union"). * ''Afirmación Para Una República Igualitaria'' (ARI, "Support for an Egalitarian Republic"), led by Elisa Carrió. * ''Recrear para el Crecimiento'' (Recreate for Growth, usually shortened to ''Recrear'') and its allies within the ''Propuesta Republicana'' (Republican Proposal, PRO) front. * ''Partido Socialista'' (PS, Socialist Party). In some districts, different factions of the Justicialist Party (PJ) presented candidates separately. In Buenos Aires Province and the city of Buenos Aires, the main intra-party division of the PJ was between the center-right, traditional Peronist faction led by Hilda González de Duhalde (wife of former governor and interim president Eduardo Duhalde), and the more center-left "heterodox" faction with candidates that answer to President Néstor Kirchner. These included his own wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and Minister of Foreign Relations, Rafael Bielsa. In the Province of Buenos Aires, this split was protested by other parties, on the grounds that the PJ (taken as a whole) would most likely win the three senatorial benches available (as it finally occurred). Kirchner took a prominent role in the campaign for "his" candidates of the Front for Victory (''Frente para la Victoria'', FV) in most provinces, explicitly stating that these elections were a referendum on his administration. Kirchner also campaigned against former President Carlos Menem, a leading conservative Peronist, in La Rioja Province, where the latter was ultimately elected to the Senate for the third (minority party) seat. The opening and closing campaign meetings of the FV were both held in Rosario, a typically progressive city that, since 1987, had been governed successfully by a Socialist local government. This party changed the traditional electoral paradigm in the Province of Santa Fe, largely displacing Peronism and the UCR in that district. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Argentine legislative election, 2005」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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