Popular Unity () is a

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and

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. Previously known as Popular Assembly, they were born out of dissatisfaction with the Broad Front since it became the party in charge of the government, accusing it of being "not leftist enough". In 2013 they changed to the current name. They took part in the

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, when they got their first representative at the Chamber of Deputies, who has been a vocal critic of the

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government. Their candidate to the

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was once again Gonzalo Abella, with an anti-oligarchy and

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platform.Popular Unity's presidential candidate
/ref> In 2023 they reached an agreement with the

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and the Struggling Workers' Front, forming an electoral agreement called the Popular Unity - Workers' Front. The candidate for that front in 2024 was Gonzalo Martínez from the Popular Unity, with Andrea Revuelta from the Workers' Party as the running mate.

Composition

*Avanzar Movement *Bolshevik Party of Uruguay *Communist Refoundation * * March 26 Movement *National Group ProUNIR *

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*Retirement Defense Movement * Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay *Socialist Compromise *Socialist Intransigence *Workers' and Peasants' Party of Uruguay

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Chamber of Deputies and Senate elections

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