balotaje
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French ballottage.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]balotaje m (plural balotajes)
- (Argentina, Uruguay) runoff, second round of voting
- Synonym: segunda vuelta
- 2015 July 6, “La fragmentada oposición argentina vence en Buenos Aires y Córdoba”, in El País[1]:
- Ahora su candidato Rodríguez Larreta se expone a un duro balotaje en el que corre el riesgo de que votantes kirchneristas y del trotskismo, que obtuvo este domingo un 7,1%, apoyen al exministro Lousteau.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “balotaje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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