Man Jailed for Scam Gets Out of Jail on Bail and 4 Days Later Wins Provincial Election in Argentina
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By Dario Rosatti Buenos Aires, July 1, 2025 – Total News Agency-TNA-The recent communal election in the town of Melincué has once again exposed the structural contradictions of Argentine politics: a leader who until a week before the elections was detained for a judicial process for fraud and fraud was elected by a majority to occupy the communal headship again. This is Silvio Garbolino, who, after paying a bail, managed to regain his freedom an…
In Argentina, candidate Silvio Garbolino was released from jail on Wednesday and on Sunday he won the election by only 17 votes.
Melincué, the small town in Santa Fe famous for its lagoon, has just written one of the most unusual pages in its political history. There, Silvio Garbolino, candidate for La Libertad Avanza, won the municipal elections after having been imprisoned until four days before the elections, accused of multi-million-dollar fraud. Melincué, the small town in Santa Fe famous for its lagoon, has just written one of the most unusual pages in its political…
Silvio Garbolino, accused of fraud and released on bail days ago, was imposed by 17 votes and will be the next commune chief of Melincué.
Freedom Avanza was able to celebrate a victory in the elections that took place this Sunday in the province of Santa Fe. Silvio Garbolino obtained a tight victory in the elections that were held for communal chief in Melincué, a town of just over 2000 inhabitants located in the south of Santa Fe. In this Sunday’s elections, Garbolino obtained 699 votes, 50.62%, while his only opponent, Yamila Noelia Galisso, from the United to Change Santa Fe (f…
Silvio Garbolino was already the communal president of Melincué for two consecutive terms, in 2019 and re-elected in 2021 and 2023, to which he had presented himself by the Radical Civic Union. In January 2024 he resigned his position excusing himself for the economic crisis affecting the local administration, but a few months later he returned to the arena of politics, now dressed in violet and in the ranks of libertarians. When ten days remain…
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