New Encounter

The Encounter for Democracy and Equality was officially launched as a political party on 14 September 2004 by then-intendente (mayor) of Morón, Martín Sabbatella. Sabbatella had until then led his own local party, called Nuevo Morón ("New Morón"), and had belonged to the Broad Front and been involved with the Communist Party Youth, as well as the Front for a Country in Solidarity (Frepaso).{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-40919-2004-09-12.html|work=Página/12|title=La hora de los pibes|last=Verbitsky|first=Horacio|language=es|date=19 September 2004|access-date=14 May 2020}} According to Sabbatella, the party was partly inspired by the Uruguayan Broad Front.

In 2009, ahead of the nationwide legislative election, Sabbatella and the EDE formed a coalition with the Communist Party, the Solidary Party, the Freemen of the South Movement, the Workers' Central Union, among others; the coalition was named New Encounter ({{langx|es|Nuevo Encuentro}}).{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-124077-2009-04-29.html|work=Página/12|title=Sabbatella inscribió su alianza para provincia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121113554/http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-124077-2009-04-29.html|date=29 April 2009|archive-date=21 January 2010|access-date=14 May 2020|language=es}} Sabbatella ran in the Buenos Aires Province party list as the first candidate, and the coalition eventually won 2,15% of the overall national vote and secured two seats in the Chamber of Deputies (the other elected deputy was Graciela Iturraspe).{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-127443-2009-06-29.html|work=Página/12|title=El día que la provincia se tiñó de colorado|last=Cibeira|first=Fernando|language=es|date=29 June 2009|access-date=14 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://agenciacta.org/spip.php?article21951|work=Agencia CTA|title=Graciela Iturraspe: Militante todoterreno|date=29 November 2016|access-date=14 May 2020|language=es}}

Ahead of the 2011 general election, New Encounter officially endorsed Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's bid for re-election, joining the broader Front for Victory.{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-170138-2011-06-15.html|work=Página/12|title=Nuevo Encuentro irá con el FpV|date=15 June 2011|access-date=14 May 2020|language=es}}

In 2015, New Encounter, the coalition, finally dissolved due to internal differences between its member parties. In 2017 the EDE, now popularly known as "New Encounter" itself, joined the Citizen's Unity coalition formed by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the aftermath of Mauricio Macri's victory in the 2015 presidential election and the dissolution of the Front for Victory, rejoining its previous allied parties, but now as part of the pan-kirchnerist coalition.{{cite news|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/2033501-que-partidos-integran-unidad-ciudadana-el-frente-electoral-de-cristina-kirchner|title=Qué partidos integran Unidad Ciudadana, el frente electoral de Cristina Kirchner|date=14 June 2017|access-date=14 May 2020|language=es|work=La Nación}} At the 2017 legislative election, the party (which ran under the Citizen's Unity list) got three of its members elected to the Chamber of Deputies: Hugo Yasky (chief of the Workers' Central Union), Mónica Macha, and Gabriela Cerruti.{{cite web|url=https://www.elorden.com/noticias/2017/06/30/1815-la-lista-de-nuevo-encuentro-fue-oficializada-dentro-de-unidad-ciudadana|work=El Orden|title= La lista de Nuevo Encuentro fue oficializada dentro de Unidad Ciudadana|date=30 June 2017|access-date=14 May 2020|language=es}}{{cite web|url=https://www.noticiasrionegro.com.ar/noticia/17492/el-partido-politico-nuevo-encuentro-comienza-su-construccion-en-dina-huapi|work=Noticias Río Negro|title= El partido político Nuevo Encuentro comienza su construcción en Dina Huapi |date=15 March 2018|access-date=14 May 2020|language=es}}

File:24 de marzo de 2013 - Nuevo Encuentro.JPG march in Buenos Aires.]]

At the time of the party's foundation, Argentine media covering it and Sabatella himself described it as a "progressive" group, modelling itself after the Uruguayan Broad Front.

During his time in Congress, Sabbatella voted selectively in favor and against the Front for Victory government's proposed bills, and initially refused to explicitly align New Encounter with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her supporters in Congress.{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-136532-2009-12-06.html|work=Página/12|title=El grupo "a"|last=Mocca|first=Edgardo|date=6 December 2009|access-date=14 May 2020|language=es}} However, following Fernández de Kirchner's landslide victory in the 2011 presidential election, Sabbatella declared the party to be "[like] another leg of the Kirchnerist table", meaning the party would officially become part of the government-aligned bloc without "losing its own identity".{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-181618-2011-11-20.html|work=Página/12|last=Cibeira|first=Fernando|language=es|title=Como otra pata más de la mesa kirchnerista|date=20 November 2011|access-date=14 May 2020}}

• Argentine Workers' Central Union
• Carlos Heller
• Front for Victory

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• [http://nuevoencuentro.org.ar// Official website] {{in lang|es}}

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