Officials of the government dismissed the possibility of a fraud in the midterm elections on Sunday, reacting to comments made by legislative candidates of the opposition who voiced concerns over purported irregularities.

"(Those remarks) are bad for democracy and affect the legitimacy of the system to elect our representatives," said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, talking to reporters on a local radio.

He described the statements of the opposition as "irresponsible," and suggested they might be seeking political gains with those remarks. "Generating doubts about the electoral system is either a naivety or it shows that they're defending particular interests," he concluded.

In the past months, candidates of different parties of the opposition, including the Social and Civic Accord and Unión-PRO warned that the pro-government Peronists were planning to conduct a series of irregularities to boost their candidates.

Reports included ballots of the Unión-PRO that been copied and altered, to annul their validity in the recount, as well reports that government officials had seized DNIs (identification cards) to force voters to elect their candidates, and others.

Earlier this year, the Social and Civic Accord had requested that the Organization of American States, which was rejected by the government.

Yesterday, the National Electoral Court issued a press communiqué, criticizing the government for failing to adopt measures to improve the transparency of the congressional elections, in disregard of several recommendations that the judiciary had made seeking to guarantee the validity of the electoral process.