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Social Sciences - History / Balbin | | Spanish term or phrase: se postulo a primer diputado | Hi!
Balbin se postuló a primer diputado.
"First deputy" no se si está bien.
Gracias |
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| | ran as head of the party list for the Congress | Explanation:
This is what I think "primer diputado" means. Argentina has (and I think then had) a closed-list proportional representation system, so the head of the list of candidates for each party becomes the party's "first deputy" for the electoral area. This is the way it is commonly expressed in English:
"In the general elections of the 22 of June of 1986, he obtained a seat in the Congress of the Deputies as the head of the party's list for Pontevedra"
http://everything.explained.at/Mariano_Rajoy/
"Although Duarte engineered his place as head of the party list for the upper house, his controversial presence as senator for the 2008-13 term would do much to split the PC in congress"
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_eng/C...
By the way, you would say "ran" in American English and "stood" in British English for "se postuló". |
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Explanation:
This is what I think "primer diputado" means. Argentina has (and I think then had) a closed-list proportional representation system, so the head of the list of candidates for each party becomes the party's "first deputy" for the electoral area. This is the way it is commonly expressed in English:
"In the general elections of the 22 of June of 1986, he obtained a seat in the Congress of the Deputies as the head of the party's list for Pontevedra"
http://everything.explained.at/Mariano_Rajoy/
"Although Duarte engineered his place as head of the party list for the upper house, his controversial presence as senator for the 2008-13 term would do much to split the PC in congress"
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_eng/C...
By the way, you would say "ran" in American English and "stood" in British English for "se postuló".
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