Front for a Country in Solidarity
{{Short description|Center-left political coalition in Argentina}}
{{more citations needed|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox political party
| country = Argentina
| name = Solidary Country Front
| native_name = Frente País Solidario
| abbreviation = FREPASO
| colorcode = purple
| logo = Frepaso logo.jpg
| logo_size = 100px
| leader = Carlos Álvarez
| foundation = August 1994
| dissolution = 20 December 2001
| headquarters = Buenos Aires
| ideology = Social democracy
Factions:
Christian democracy
Syncretism
Humanism
Democratic socialism
Communism
| merger = FG
PCA
PI
PH
FdS
PDC
PAIS
PSP
PSD
| position = Center-left{{cite book|last=Vázquez|date=2014|first=Amancio|language=|pages=1–17|publication-place=Universidad Nacional del Litoral|title=La conformación de La Alianza UCR – Frepaso (1997 – 2001). Usos de las teorías de negociación política para el estudio de las coaliciones.}}{{Cite thesis|url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=123306|title = La centroizquierda en la Argentina: El frente país solidario (FREPASO), la alianza y el frente para la victoria (FPV)-Kirchnerismo|year = 2016|publisher = Universidad de Salamanca|last1 = Escudero|first1 = Laura Verónica}}{{Cite journal|url=https://static.nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/2720_1.pdf|title=Argentina ¿Hacia una nueva configuración política?|last1=Castiglioni|first1=Franco|date=November–December 1998|journal=Nueva Sociedad|issue=158|pages=4–11}}
| national = The Alliance (1997–2001)
| international =
| colours = Blue, red and yellow
| seats1_title =
| website =
}}
The Front for a Country in Solidarity ({{Langx|es|Frente País Solidario}} or {{Lang|es|FREPASO}}) was a center-left{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1995/10/10/internacional/813279615_850215.html|title=Derrota peronista en las elecciones de Buenos Aires|newspaper=El País|date=9 October 1995|last1=Aznárez|first1=Juan Jesús}} political coalition in Argentina. Its leading figures were José Octavio Bordón, Carlos "Chacho" Álvarez and Graciela Fernández Meijide.
History
The coalition was formed in 1994 out of the Broad Front (Frente Grande), which had been founded mainly by progressive members of the Peronist Justicialist Party who denounced the neoliberal policies and alleged corruption of the Carlos Menem administration;{{cite book|author=Wendy Hunter|title=The Transformation of the Workers' Party in Brazil, 1989–2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tquM3XUW5ccC&pg=PA189|date=13 September 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49266-9|pages=188–190}} the Broad Front joined with other dissenting Peronists, the Unidad Socialista (Popular and Democratic Socialist Party) and several other leftist parties and individuals.
Shortly after its foundation, the coalition contested the 1995 elections, with José Octavio Bordón running for president with Carlos "Chacho" Álvarez as running mate. While the coalition didn't win the election, the campaign was considered nonetheless very successful for a newly-formed alliance, as Bordón came second with 29,3% of the vote. Subsequently, Bordón proposed converting FrePaSo into a unified party, while Álvarez wanted a loose confederation of different parties. On May 17, 1995, Bordón and Álvarez announced the formation of a confederation, with a unified political platform and leadership, with the third largest block in the Argentine National Congress. The Intransigent Party and the Christian Democratic Party joined the coalition. Bordón later resigned after a leadership battle and returned to the Justicialist Party.
The FrePaSo campaigned for the 1999 elections in an alliance with the larger Radical Civic Union (UCR) and a few provincial parties, the Alliance for Work, Justice, and Education (known simply as the Alliance), which won the presidency for Fernando de la Rúa. Frepaso politician Aníbal Ibarra was elected Mayor of Buenos Aires in 2000 on the Alliance ticket. However, that same year vice president Chacho Álvarez resigned amidst public intra-party accusations of bribery in the Senate, followed shortly after by other leading members.
After the 2001 elections, FrePaSo became the joint third largest party in the federal Chamber of Deputies, with 17 of 257 deputies.
Following the December 2001 riots, the party disintegrated. Many members re-joined the Peronist movement within the centre-left Front for Victory faction of President Néstor Kirchner, with others supporting the ARI party of Elisa Carrió. Until 2007 the party nominally retained one senator, Vilma Ibarra, who sat as a lone 'Party for Victory' member but in practice supported the Front for Victory, for which she became a national deputy in 2007. Her brother Aníbal Ibarra was removed as Mayor of Buenos Aires in 2006 in the wake of the Cromañón nightclub fire.
Member parties
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%" |
| colspan=2|Party
!Leader{{efn|At the time of the front's dissolution (2001)}} !Ideology |
|---|
| style="background:#172683" | |
| style="background:#ff2400" | |
| style="background:{{party color|Christian Democratic Party (Argentina)}}" |
| Mario Alfredo Marturet |
| style="background:{{party color|Intransigent Party}}"|
| Enrique Gustavo Cardesa |
| style="background:orange" |
| Humanism |
| style="background:#FF6700;"| |
| style="background:#FE9B00;"| |
| style="background:#4f85c5;"|
| Open Politics for Social Integrity | Peronism |
| style="background:#000000" |
| Front of the South |
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See also
References
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Category:Defunct political party alliances in Argentina
Category:Political parties established in 1994
Category:1994 establishments in Argentina