1996 Buenos Aires City elections

Ever since the federalization of Buenos Aires in 1880, during the government of President Nicolás Avellaneda, the city of Buenos Aires – federal capital of Argentina – became a separate entity from Buenos Aires Province, operating as a non-autonomous city directly dependent on the government of Argentina. The Mayor of Buenos Aires () was from that point on appointed directly by the President of Argentina, while the city's Deliberative Council () served as the only democratically-elected local authority. In the 1990s during the presidency of Carlos Menem, calls for Buenos Aires to become politically autonomous grew, and the issue was one of the main points of the 1993 Pact of Olivos, which led to the 1994 amendment of the Constitution of Argentina. The 1994 amendments (specifically article 129 of the new constitution) granted autonomy to the city, allowing it to vote for its own mayor for the first time in history. ==Candidates==

Chief of Government Legislature == See also ==