Frente País Solidario
The Frente País Solidario (abbreviated FrePaSo , German Front Solidarisches Land ) was a left party alliance in Argentina .
history
The Frente País Solidario was founded in 1994 through a merger of several left small parties: the Frente Grande , founded in 1993 , the two spin-offs of the Partido Socialista Partido Socialista Popular (PSP) and Partido Socialista Democrático (PSP) , the Política Abierta para la Integridad Social ( PAIS) and the Christian Democratic Partido Demócrata Cristiano . Its legal form was that of a Confederación , a permanent party alliance.
FrePaSo's greatest success came in the 1995 presidential election, when its candidate José Octavio Bordón received the second most votes with 28.4% and thus outperformed the UCR.
In 1997, the party alliance joined forces with the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) to form the alliance Alianza para el Trabajo, la Justícia y la Educación . The coalition won the House of Representatives elections in the same year and the 1999 presidential election with the radical Fernando de la Rúa as a candidate.
After the 2001 elections, it became the third largest party in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies with 17 out of 257 seats. The party campaigned together with the larger Unión Cívica Radical party.
As a consequence of the Argentina crisis , the alliance was further weakened, also because the voters blamed it for the failure of the de la Rúa government. The parties that founded the alliance have since appeared separately in politics or entered into alliances with other forces, which means that it has failed. PSP and PSD merged with the Partido Socialista in 2002 , PAIS initially supported the Frente para la Victoria , and from 2007 the Coalición Cívica ; the Frente Grande remained independent for a while, but from 2011 supported the Frente para la Victoria.
Aníbal Ibarra , who held the important post of mayor of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires from 2003 , appeared under the umbrella of the FrePaSo until his dismissal in 2006.
Known party members
- Carlos Álvarez , founding member and former Argentine Vice President
- Aníbal Ibarra , former mayor of Buenos Aires