Proyecto Sur ( en, Project South) is a progressive political party established in 2007 in

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. It was founded and would be led by film maker Pino Solanas, who ran on the Proyecto Sur ticket for president in 2007 and for Mayor of

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in 2011. The party's progressive platform centers on the

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, rail, and

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which, as former State enterprises, had been

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during the 1989-99 administration of President Carlos Menem. Proyecto Sur maintains a

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, the ''Instituto Argentino de Propuestas'' (Argentine Institute for Proposals).

History

Pino Solanas (Guadalajara Film Festival)

The party developed in part from the

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, a political party established in 1993 by with Congressman Carlos Álvarez, film-maker Pino Solanas, human rights activist Graciela Fernández Meijide and others disaffected with President Carlos Menem's turn to the right. Solanas, a renowned film maker in the political cinema genre, established ''Proyecto Sur'' in August 2007 ahead of his campaign for president in that year's general elections. The ticket obtained fifth place (1.6%) and elected one Congressman. Solanas, however, was satisfied with the results, and declared that ''"we have planted our flag."'' Proyecto Sur elected four Congressmen in the 2009 mid-term elections. The party later sealed alliances with a number of other left-wing parties, including Solidarity and Equality, the MST, Free of the South Movement, the Authentic Socialist Party, and the Revolutionary Communist Party. These alliances brought the Proyecto Sur-led

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in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies to 11 members. Solanas entered into an alliance with the

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-led Broad Progressive Front in June 2011 for the general elections. He left the Front within a week, however, and announced the party and its allies would run on an independent Proyecto Sur slate; he nominated Congresswoman

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as their candidate for president. The party is part of the Frente de Todos coalition supporting the 2019 Argentine presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez during the 2019 Argentine general election.

References

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