After approving the slogan law, Sergio Uñac confirmed that he will seek a new re-election in San Juan and ignited another controversy

After the controversy generated by the approval of a new law of slogans, the governor of San Juan, Sergio Uñac, confirmed that he will seek a second re-election as provincial president.

He said it at a press conference and also confirmed it through his social networks.

"I want to defend San Juan, with the convictions of always, with more force than ever. Because the people of San Juan are protagonists of a historical transformation, which has known how to grow and overcome national and international circumstances," Uñac began his message.

And he continued: "For this reason, I communicated that next May 14 I will present myself as a candidate for Governor for our San Juan. It is an honor, pride and an immense responsibility. Now we have the challenge of consolidating the San Juan Model that does not belong to me to me but to all San Juan residents".

Uñac spoke to the media after the presentation of the International Cycling Tour of San Juan at the Civic Center of the provincial capital.

"I took the necessary time to be able to meditate on it, because it is a personal, family decision and for the well-being of the people of San Juan, the present and the future of San Juan," said the provincial president.

He also took the opportunity to leave a message in the midst of the controversy over the Supreme Court ruling that ordered the return of the co-participation money that the Nation had taken from him: "We see that at this time there are different situations at the national level that threaten the construction of a serious federalism".

In this sense, he targeted the candidates of Together for Change at the national level. "No opposition candidate is heard talking about the importance of mining and what it means for the people of San Juan, that it has been a before and after and that it has boosted exports and has made the workplace grow."

"We have to fight hard, because now they also want to keep funds that are from the interior, overwhelming federalism," he launched.

Uñac will be a candidate after last October, after eliminating the PASO, he achieved the sanction of a new Electoral Code that imposed the law of slogans.

The point of conflict with the opposition was the interpretation of article 175 of the provincial Constitution: "The Governor and the Lieutenant Governor last four years in the exercise of their functions and can be re-elected up to two consecutive times."

Until then the letter was clear, but the opposition highlighted several impediments. First, that Uñac was deputy governor of José Luis Gioja - who even assumed the governorship for four months after the serious helicopter accident of the then governor -, for which he is in his third term in the provincial Executive.

But they also highlighted as jurisprudence the case of two other governors who were previously lieutenant governors and tried to go for a new mandate also appealing to articles 175 of their corresponding provincial constitutions.

“The Governor knows that he cannot be a candidate again, because he has already fulfilled the mandates that the Constitution enables. The Government of San Juan illegally modified the electoral law, has muddied the field and intends to continue stressing the Province with an unconstitutional candidacy”, said Marcelo Orrego, national deputy of Together for Change.

Gustavo Fernández, president of Citizen Dignity, also joined the opposition repudiation: "That Uñac is a candidate is not right, it is contrary to the Constitution because with his term as lieutenant governor and the following two consecutive ones as governor he exhausted the limit of three terms that were set for Governor and Lieutenant Governor in art. 175. The Constitution seeks republican alternation in the exercise of power and Uñac is violating that principle of democratic health”.

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He also took the opportunity to leave a message in the midst of the controversy over the Supreme Court ruling that ordered the return of the co-participation money that the Nation had taken from him: "We see that at this time there are different situations at the national level that threaten the construction of a serious federalism".