Argentine political coalition
The Union for the Homeland (
Spanish : Unión por la Patria , UP ) is a centre-left political and electoral coalition of
Peronist political parties in
Argentina who are the main opposition coalition since December 2023.
The coalition was formed to compete in the
2023 general election ,
[8] and is a successor to the previous
Frente de Todos coalition, whose candidate in the
2019 presidential election ,
Alberto Fernández , was successfully elected
President of Argentina .
[9] The coalition is centered on the
Justicialist Party and its allies both on the federal and provincial levels, including the
Renewal Front of
Sergio Massa , who was the coalition's candidate for president in the 2023 presidential election.
[10]
[11]
History
Background
In the run-up to the
2019 presidential election , the
Kirchnerist faction of the
Justicialist Party arranged for the establishment of a common
Peronist electoral front. This project ultimately materialized with the formation of the
Frente de Todos coalition, which comprised the Justicialist majority along with a number of other parties of the political
left and
centre . This alliance was itself a successor to both the short-lived
Citizen's Unity bloc formed for the
2017 midterm elections as well as the
Front for Victory , which served as the political instrument of the Kirchnerist political camp between 2003 and 2017. The alliance presented
Alberto Fernández as its sole candidate in the
2019 presidential primaries , in which he secured just under 48% of the vote. In the subsequent general election, Fernández again garnered 48% of the vote, against the 40% of incumbent president
Mauricio Macri of the
Juntos por el Cambio coalition, ousting the sitting administration and returning the Peronists to power after four years in the opposition.
[12] Fernández, along with his vice president, the former
President of Argentina
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , went on to govern the country for the ensuing four-year period. Halfway through this term, the Frente de Todos coalition suffered a significant defeat in the
2021 Argentine legislative election , losing seats in both the
Chamber of Deputies and the
Senate , and thereby losing control of Congress for the first time in nearly 40 years.
[13]
2023 election
In April 2023, President Alberto Fernandez announced that he would not seek re-election in the next
presidential election .
[14] In the
primary elections on August of that year,
Sergio Massa defeated
Juan Grabois by a margin of nearly 16 percentage points, although it became the worst result for a ruling Peronist coalition since the PASO was first implemented in 2009.
[11]
In the runoff in November 2023,
Libertarian candidate
Javier Milei defeated Massa with 55.7% against 44,35% of the vote, the highest percentage of the vote since
Argentina's transition to democracy . Massa conceded defeat shortly before the official results were published.
[15]
[16]
Ideology
Union for the Homeland is a
Peronist
[17] coalition, along with its internal currents,
Federal Peronism
[18] and
Kirchnerism .
[19] The coalition is considered centre-left.
[20]
[21]
[22] It also includes
Communist
[23] factions,
left-wing and also
right-wing
populists ;
[24]
[25]
conservative ,
[26]
Catholic
[27] and
progressive ones.
[28] It is a broad alliance that ranges from the
center-right
[29] to
leftist positions.
[30]
Member parties
References
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a
b Benavides, Sofía (2023-08-02).
"Unión por la Patria: cuál es el origen de la coalición y quién la compone" . CNN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-10 .
^ Cazón, Sebastián (2023-10-01).
" "Unidad nacional": La propuesta de Massa agita la interna radical y enfurece a Macri | La idea de un gobierno transversal y búsqueda de apoyo para un balotaje" . PAGINA12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-13 .
^ Sourtech.
"Elecciones de Argentina 2023: del hartazgo al miedo hubo un(a) PASO - El Economista" . eleconomista.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-10 .
^
"Ministro de Economía será el candidato del oficialismo a la presidencia de Argentina" . France 24 . 2023-06-24. Retrieved 2023-06-25 .
^ Lake, Tom; Lewis, Jack.
"MINI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS-Argentina PASO Preview" (PDF) . Market News . Alliance: Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria) – UP – Peronism, centre-left, centrism, Kirchnerism.
^ Jutten, Marc (27 November 2023).
"Argentina: Outcome of the 2023 elections – Beginning of a new era?" .
European Parliament . The big losers in the primaries were the Peronists, the ruling centre-left 'Union for the Homeland' (Union por la Patria/UP), who gained just 27.3 % of the votes – a historically bad result (compared to 47 % in 2019).
^
"Uno por uno, todos los spots de campaña de los precandidatos a Presidente" . www.cronista.com (in Spanish). 2023-07-31. Retrieved 2023-07-16 .
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"Elecciones Argentina 2023: "Unión por la Patria" es el nuevo nombre del Frente de Todos" . Página12 (in Spanish). 14 June 2023.
^
"Argentine incumbent Mauricio Macri concedes defeat in presidential vote" . CNBC . 27 October 2019.
^ Múgica Díaz, Joaquín (14 June 2023).
"Unión por la Patria es el nuevo nombre elegido por el Frente de Todos para las elecciones" . Infobae (in Spanish).
^
a
b Goñi, Uki (2023-08-14).
"Far-right outsider takes shock lead in Argentina primary election" . The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-08-14 .
^ Watson, Katy (28 October 2019).
"Argentina election: Centre-left Alberto Fernández wins presidency" . BBC .
^ Bronstein, Hugh; Misculin, Nicolás (15 November 2021).
"Argentina's Peronists on the ropes after bruising midterm defeat" . Reuters .
^
"Argentina's President Fernandez will not seek re-election" . Al-Jazeera . 21 April 2023.
^
"Balotaje 2023, en vivo: los resultados y las noticias minuto a minuto de las elecciones" . LA NACION (in Spanish). 19 November 2023.
Archived from the original on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023 .
^ Tagliabúe, Leonardo (19 November 2023).
"Contundente triunfo de Javier Milei: será el próximo presidente de la Argentina" .
Infobae (in Spanish).
Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023 .
^ Benavides, Sofía (2023-08-02).
"Unión por la Patria: cuál es el origen de la coalición y quién la compone" . CNN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^ Sourtech.
"Elecciones de Argentina 2023: del hartazgo al miedo hubo un(a) PASO - El Economista" . eleconomista.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^
"Adiós Frente de Todos: ahora el kirchnerismo se llama "Unión por la Patria" " . Perfil (in Spanish). 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^
"Ministro de Economía será el candidato del oficialismo a la presidencia de Argentina" . France 24 . 2023-06-24. Retrieved 2023-06-25 .
^ Lake, Tom; Lewis, Jack.
"MINI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS-Argentina PASO Preview" (PDF) . Market News . Alliance: Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria) – UP – Peronism, centre-left, centrism, Kirchnerism.
^ Jutten, Marc (27 November 2023).
"Argentina: Outcome of the 2023 elections – Beginning of a new era?" .
European Parliament . The big losers in the primaries were the Peronists, the ruling centre-left 'Union for the Homeland' (Union por la Patria/UP), who gained just 27.3 % of the votes – a historically bad result (compared to 47 % in 2019).
^
"Jorge Kreyness: "Estamos en Unión por la Patria porque no somos una izquierda sectaria" " . CNN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^
"The Hard Right Is Ascendant in Argentina" . jacobin.com . Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^
"¿Qué representa la candidatura de Massa a la presidencia argentina?" .
El Economista .
^ Katz, Claudio (2023-09-02).
"Los dilemas de la izquierda ante las elecciones argentinas" . Jacobin Revista (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^
"Juan Grabois: 'Massa is my internal rival but my political enemies are Bullrich and Morales' | Buenos Aires Times" . www.batimes.com.ar . Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^
"What Do Young Libertarians Think about Argentina's Javier Milei?" . National Review . 2023-08-21. Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^ Molina, Federico Rivas (2023-11-18).
"Sergio Massa, el político incombustible" . El País Argentina (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^
"Jorge Kreyness: "Estamos en Unión por la Patria porque no somos una izquierda sectaria" " . CNN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-14 .
^
"El PJ apoya la fórmula Alberto Fernández-Cristina Kirchner: "La unidad es el camino" " .
^
"Proyecto Sur. Movimiento político, social y cultural" . 30 June 2009. Archived from
the original on 30 June 2009 – via proyecto-sur.org.
^
"El ascenso de Moreau, la nueva figura del universo kirchnerista" . 16 August 2017.
^ Arias, Mariela (17 June 2019).
"Tierra del Fuego: Melella se impuso a Bertone en primera vuelta" . La Nación .
^
"Un frente antineoliberal" .
Página/12 (in Spanish). 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2020 .
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"Los Movimientos sociales lanzaron el partido La Patria de los Comunes: críticas al Gobierno y respaldo a CFK" [Social movements started the party "La patria de los comunes": criticism to the government and support to CFK] (in Spanish). TN. March 17, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023 .
^ Mozetic, Daniela (14 July 2021).
"Mendoza: Frente de Todos sumó a José Luis Ramón y quiere encabezar la lista de diputados" .
Perfil (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 July 2021 .
^
"Quiénes son los 'dueños' de los 16 partidos que integran UP, Unión por la Patria" . Memo (in Spanish). 16 August 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023 .
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