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Union for the Homeland
Argentine political coalition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Union for the Homeland (Spanish: Unión por la Patria, UP), renamed in 2025 as Homeland Force (Spanish: Fuerza Patria, FP),[1][2] is a centre-left[21] to left-wing[14] political and electoral coalition of Peronist political parties in Argentina. It has been the main opposition coalition since December 2023.
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The coalition was formed to compete in the 2023 general election,[22] 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.[23] The coalition is centred 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.[24][25]
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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.[26] 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.[27]
2023 election
In April 2023, President Alberto Fernandez announced that he would not seek re-election in the next presidential election.[28] In the primary elections in 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.[25]
In the runoff in November 2023, Libertarian candidate Javier Milei defeated Massa in the second round with 55.65% of the vote, the highest percentage since Argentina's transition to democracy. Massa conceded defeat shortly before the official results were published.[29][30]
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Ideology
Union for the Homeland is a Peronist coalition, along with its internal currents,[31] Federal Peronism[32] and Kirchnerism.[33] The coalition is predominantly centre-left to left-wing.[38][14] with right-wing,[39] centrist and leftist parties.[40] It includes communist factions,[41] left-wing and also right-wing populists;[44] conservative,[45] Catholic,[46] and progressive parties.[47] Despite its broad character, the coalition has extensive ties with the trade union General Confederation of Labour,[48] and is considered to be Peronist,[50] and left-wing populist in character.[52] The party's ideology has also been described as labourist and nationalist, in line with Peronism;[53] it is also considered economically interventionist and anti-neoliberal.[54]
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Notes
- It is not officially registered as a political party, but Marino himself maintains that he is the leader of the "Piquetero Party" and "Piquetero Unity", these being members of the Frente de Todos until 2023, and of Unión por la Patria since June 2023."The leader of the Piquetero Party is now a national deputy". parlamentario.com. 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2024-12-01."Who is Juan Marino, the social leader who aroused boos in the Chamber of Deputies". tn.com. 2023-12-07.
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