Broad Progressive Front (Argentina)
The Frente Amplio Progresista (abbreviated FAP, German translation: progressive front width ) is an Argentine party alliance, which was founded in June 2011. She is assigned to the center-left spectrum and sees itself as an opposition platform compared to the present ( 2012) the ruling Frente para la Victoria and the Partido Justicialista (PJ).
In the presidential elections of 2011, the candidate of the Alliance Hermes Binner gained 16.8 % in second place, but by far the election winner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ( FPV / PJ ), which gained an absolute majority.
Members
The member parties of the FAP have in common is that they are strongly represented in each case in certain regions of the country, but have hardly any influence on the national level.
- Generación para un Encuentro Nacional ( GEN), Social Democratic removal of the UCR in the Province of Buenos Aires
- Movimiento Libres del Sur, democratic socialist party
- Partido Nuevo / Frente Civico, a regional party of the province of Córdoba
- Partido Socialista, traditional socialist and social democratic party
- Solidaridad e Igualdad, Social Democratic Party
History
Preceded the establishment of the FAP was the dissolution of the party alliance Acuerdo Civico y Social, which was founded for the parliamentary elections in 2009 and the Unión Cívica Radical, the Socialist Party and the Alliance Coalition Cívica, the Coalition Cívica ARI, GEN and Unidad Popular and other parties belonged, included. After leaving the CC -ARI in 2010, the UCR negotiated with the remaining parties of a new alliance, but in mid-2011 finally failed when the UCR candidate Ricardo Alfonsín announced his collaboration with the Rechtsperonisten Francisco de Narváez.
The Partido Socialista, which is the only provincial-level government ( Province of Santa Fe ), announced subsequently on 26 June 2011, the foundation of the Frente Amplio Progresista known. Originally, the alliance should also include the strong in the city of Buenos Aires Left Party Proyecto Sur. Because of differences in the rankings list Proyecto Sur came separately to the 2011 election.
Even before the election, the deputies and senators from the member parties entered into a Interbloque (about: Group Community ) together, still pushed a deputy of the Coalition Cívica, Sebastián Cinquerrui added. The block is since the 2011 election in the House of Representatives with 23 representatives of the third-strongest force behind the FPV and the UCR.