In an attempt to give legitimacy to a fraudulent process, the CNE and the Foreign Ministry invited hundreds of members of social movements, civil associations and pro-government parties as “observers”.
Autocratic regimes use intervened or politicized electoral observation as a tactic to buy legitimacy and mitigate the influence of independent organizations.
Just as the internal elections made it clear that the extremists triumphed, we could also assume that centripetal forces will operate in a general contest.
In Argentina, the figure of national electoral observation does not exist. What exists is civic accompaniment, a much more limited and poorly regulated monitoring modality.
