The Argentinian Electoral Federalism as a System of Institutional Autonomy

The argentinian constitution establishes the federal regime as a form of state organization in which the provinces, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the National State coexist harmoniously, each one with its own functional competencies and attributes. The institutional matter, characterized by the shape and integration of provincial institutions and the electoral matters related to them, is one of the subjects where the provinces retain their own capacity determination, within the framework of the Constitution. This causes the coexistence of different electoral systems and electoral bodies with diverse format, that have practically no relation with each other, except specific cases.