The time for speculation and agreements is over. The names that will compete in the PASO on August 13 are already defined. Now, let’s analyze who won the first battle on social networks: these are the candidates who added more followers after list closure and the confirmation of the candidacies.
In Together for Change, Patricia Bullrich officially announced Luis Petri as his vice president. The announcement was made through a video on their social networks published in collaboration with the radical. At that time, Petri had on his Instagram account 45,958 followers. After the confirmation of Patricia Bullrich, the Mendoza added more than 5,000 followers. Today he already has just over 51,000 followers. Gerardo Moralesrunning mate of Horacio Rodriguez Larretawent from 69,460 to 73,385 adding almost 4,000 followers.
What happened on the side of Unión por la Patria? Sergio Massain your first 48 hours as a candidate, went from 131,000 to 137,000 followers on Instagram. On Twitter 4,000 new accounts began to follow him. For his part, on Facebook, he added only 1,000 followers. The vice-presidential candidate of the ruling party, Agustín Rossi climbed to 154,000 on Instagram with the confirmation of the formula, leaving behind the 152,000 it had.
In the little bird’s social network, he added more than 2,000 followers, and in Facebook, only 1,000. A fact: in the only 24 hours of him as a candidate for President, Peter’s Wado he added more than 15,000 followers to his account instagram and more than 10,000 on Twitter. surpassing those harvested by Massa and Rossi in two days. The other list that competes in Unión por la Patria is headed by Juan Grabois who has 221,000 followers on Instagram and that 24 hours before the lists closed it had 217,000.
Between June 23 and 24, the day the lists close, Javier Milei added more than 6,000 followers to his Instagram account. Of all those mentioned above, Milei is the one with the most followers on this platform, with 1,700,000, surpassing Horacio Rodríguez Larreta’s 542,000 and Patricia Bullrich’s 530,000. Her vice-presidential candidate, Victoria Villarruel, has gained more than 10,000 followers on Instagram since her confirmation as running mate in mid-May.
the cordovan Juan Schiaretti, candidate for President for Hacemos un País, was one of the candidates who added the fewest followers on Instagram with the closing of the lists and the confirmation of his candidacy: only 300. His running mate, Florencio Randazzo, added almost 1,000 followers. Within the Left Front, Myriam Bregman has 148,000 followers on Instagram, many compared to the 17,000 that Gabriel Solano has, the other pre-candidate for president on the list. We will see in the coming weeks how the metrics continue to move on social networks until the day of the election on August 13.
