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Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 27 October 2013. Open primary elections (PASO) were previously held on 11 August 2013 to determine eligible party lists for the general election. As in 2011 – when such primaries were held for the first time – each party list had to reach a 1.5% threshold at the provincial level in order to proceed to the 27 October polls. The elections renewed half of the members of the Chamber of Deputies for the period 2013–2017 and a third of the members of the Senate for the period 2013–2019.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elecciones legislativas 2013 argentina ¿Qué se vota? )〕 Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) elections were held in every district; Senate elections were, in turn, held in the provinces of Chaco, Entre Ríos, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, Santiago del Estero, and Tierra del Fuego, as well as in the City of Buenos Aires.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Primarias legislativas. Todos los resultados )〕 Corrientes Province held the only elections for governor in 2013, doing so on 15 September.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cuatro candidatos para el cargo de gobernador de Corrientes )〕 These elections included two significant novelties. Following the enactment of a law to that effect in 2012, voluntary suffrage was extended to voters age 16 and 17, which increased eligible voters by 4.5% or about 1.2 million;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=El padrón electoral aumentará 4,5 por ciento en 2013 )〕 of this total, approximately 600,000 registered to vote.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La primera vez del voto joven )〕 Argentine voters in 2013 also parted with the traditional election-day seal stamped on National Identity Documents (DNI) by election officials, receiving instead a ballot stub with a bar code and serial number.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chau sello: se entregó un troquel a todos los votantes )〕 == Background == President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was reelected in 2011, and the Kirchnerist Front for Victory (FpV) rode her coattails in gubernatorial and congressional races alike. Following the elections, however, foreign exchange controls, austerity measures, persistent inflation, and downturns in Brazil, Europe, and other important trade partners, resulted in a sudden downturn and a consequent erosion of the president's popularity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Argentina says inflation accelerated as economy cooled )〕 A series of ''cacerolazos'' organized by opponents of the government took place during 2012 and 2013 (13S, 8N, 18A, and 8A). The recession was shorter and shallower than much of the local media had predicted, however;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La economía argentina está en recesión )〕 and while the FpV entered the 2013 campaign season with sounder footing on pocketbook issues,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La economía argentina creció en mayo un 7,8% respecto al año pasado )〕 they were dogged by ongoing speculation that its caucus sought a two-thirds majority in the Lower House with the goal of amending the Constitution to allow the president to seek a third term.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Diputados: Cristina necesita repetir la elección de 2011 para asegurarse la reelección )〕 A survey conducted in June 2013 by the consulting firm CEIS gave the Front for Victory (the majority party in Congress, as well as the party in power since 2003) 30.3% in the City of Buenos Aires and 39.7% in the Province of Buenos Aires (the largest electoral district). The right-wing PRO polled at 23.4% and 16.7%, respectively; the Federal Peronists and other PJ party lists opposed to Kirchnerism, 10.3% and 16.7%; the centrist Civic Coalition, 9.2% and 5.0%; and the center-left UCR, 7.4% and 8.0%.〔(June 2013 ) CEIS〕 The FpV, moreover, had the advantage of having relatively few Lower House seats at stake in 2013. Congressmen in Argentina serve four-year terms, and gains for the various opposition parties in 2009 meant that 2013 put a disproportionate number of their Lower House seats at stake: while the FpV contested 38 of its 116 Lower House seats, a full 76 of 118 opposition seats were at stake this year (a further 13 seats of the 23 belonging to minor parties allied with the FpV were at stake).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PASO 2013: qué se pone en juego en el Congreso Nacional )〕 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, 2013」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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