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Unidad Ciudadana
Citizen's Unity () was a Centre-left politics, centre-left Kirchnerist political coalition in Argentina for the 2017 Argentine legislative election, 2017 legislative elections led by the former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. This coalition existed in the provinces of Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Catamarca Province, Catamarca, Chaco Province, Chaco, Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba, Misiones Province, Misiones, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires. The political force launched a campaign against the "retirement adjustment and labor flexibility that the government of Mauricio Macri is trying to impose." The result was a victory for the ruling Cambiemos alliance, being the most voted force in 13 of the 24 districts. Creation After finishing her second term, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner proposed the creation of a coalition of forces opposing Mauricio Macri's ruling party. By her own words, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Fernández De Kirchner
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born 19 February 1953), often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and former politician who served as the 56th president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015, and later as the 37th Vice President of Argentina, vice president under President Alberto Fernández from 2019 to 2023. The widow of Néstor Kirchner, she was also First ladies and gentlemen of Argentina, First Lady during his presidency from 2003 to 2007. She was the second female president of Argentina (after Isabel Perón) and the first to be directly elected to office. Ideologically self-identified as a Peronist and a Progressivism, progressive, her political approach is called Kirchnerism. Since 2024, she has been the president of the Justicialist Party, the main opposition party to incumbent President Javier Milei. Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, she studied law at the University of La Plata, and moved to Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, with her husband N� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misiones Province
Misiones (, ''Missions'') is one of the Provinces of Argentina, 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia, Argentina, Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by Paraguay to the northwest, Brazil to the north, east and south, and Corrientes Province of Argentina to the southwest. This was an early area of Roman Catholic missionary activity by the Jesuits in what was then called the province of Paraguay, beginning in the early 17th century. In 1984, the ruins of four mission sites in Argentina were designated World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. History Indigenous peoples of various tribes lived in the area of the future province for thousands of years. At the time of European encounter, the area was occupied by the Kaingang and Xokleng people, Xokleng tribes, later followed by the Guarani people, Guarani tribe. The first European to visit the region, Sebastian Cabot (explorer), Sebastian Cabot, discovered Apipé Falls while navigat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Encounter
Encounter for Democracy and Equality (; EDE), more commonly known as New Encounter () is a Kirchnerism, Kirchnerist political party in Argentina founded in 2004 by then-mayor of Morón, Martín Sabbatella. The party now forms part of the Union for the Homeland, Unión por la Patria, the coalition which supported former president Alberto Fernández and Sergio Massa's 2023 Argentine general election, presidential campaign. From 2009 to 2015, the party was aligned with the Communist Party of Argentina, Communist Party and the Solidary Party in a front called New Encounter, from which the EDE took its current common name. History The Encounter for Democracy and Equality was officially launched as a political party on 14 September 2004 by then-''intendente'' (mayor) of Morón, Martín Sabbatella. Sabbatella had until then led his own local party, called ''Nuevo Morón'' ("New Morón"), and had belonged to the Broad Front (Argentina), Broad Front and been involved with the Communist Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Kirchner
Alicia Margarita Kirchner Ostoić (born 18 July 1946) is an Argentine politician. She is the elder sister of the late former President Néstor Kirchner and served in his government as Minister of Social Development, a role which she held under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her sister-in-law, until the end of her presidential term on 9 December 2015. She served two consecutive terms as governor of her native Santa Cruz Province from 2015 to 2023. Since 2023, she has sat in the Argentine Senate as one of the three senators from Santa Cruz. She previously held the position from 2005 to 2006. Biography Kirchner worked as a teacher and social worker, holding a PhD in social work. From 1975 to 1983 she served as a sub-secretary of social action in her native Santa Cruz Province. From 1987 to 1990 she was a minister in the municipality of Río Gallegos, leading on public health, education, culture, social action, recreation and sport. For a few months in 1990, and ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolina
Kolina (an acronym of Corriente de Liberación Nacional, ) is a Kirchnerist political party in Argentina founded in 2010 by Alicia Kirchner, sister of former president of Argentina, Néstor Kirchner. The party now forms part of Unión por la Patria, the former ruling coalition supporting then-President Alberto Fernández. At the time of its foundation and until the alliance's dissolution, the party was a member of the Front for Victory. Following the 2019 general election, the party has representation in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies (the National Deputies Lisandro Bormioli, María Rosa Martínez and Paola Vessvessian belong to Kolina). In addition, Alicia Kirchner was governor of Santa Cruz Province from 2015 to 2023. History Foundation. Kolina was created on July 20, 2010, as a current rather than as a party, in order to express a "political space of the national movement" that goes beyond the idea of a party, admitting that it acts as a party. people not affili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Peronism
Federal Peronism (), also known as Dissident Peronism (), is the faction or branch of either moderate, centrist or right-wing Peronism (a political movement in Argentina), that is currently identified mostly by its opposition to Kirchnerism, the left-wing faction of Peronism. The term "Federal Peronism," as opposed to "metropolitan Peronism" (mainly from Greater Buenos Aires), was informally used since the 1980s to identify the more traditional and conservative Peronists from the Provinces of Argentina, whose List of Governors in Argentina, governors grew in number and influence during the administration of President Carlos Menem. "Dissident Peronism" is more properly used to refer to the Peronist opposition to the administrations and party leadership of left-leaning Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The term gained currency since the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector, when a number of party leaders, governors and legislators ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Rodríguez Saá
Alberto José Rodriguez-Saá (born August 21, 1949) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He was Governor of San Luis Province on two separate occasions. He was presidential candidate for the center-right peronism, Orthodox and Federal Peronism, in 2007 and 2011. The Rodriguez-Saá family is well known in the Province of San Luis and can be traced to the nineteenth century and to descendants of the Federalist revolutionary Juan Saá, an important figure in the Argentine Civil Wars of the mid nineteenth century. His brother, Adolfo Rodríguez-Saá, was governor of San Luis from 1983 until 2001, when he became interim President of Argentina, resigning after a week. Biography Born in San Luis, Rodriguez Saá completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires, where he earned a law degree in 1974, specializing in Constitutional Guarantees. He married María Antonia Salino, and they had three children; they were later divorced. He was hired as a legal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Commitment
Federal Commitment is a Peronist political party in Argentina formed by the fusion of Es Posible Party and the Independent Movement of Justice and Dignity. The party is currently part of the former governing Unión por la Patria coalition of former President Alberto Fernández and former Vice President Cristina Kirchner since 2019. History The Federal Commitment proposal postulates replicating the "San Luis" model at the national level. The province of San Luis, received different distinctions by the United Nations in terms of caring for the environment, and by the former Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore, who visited the province of San Luis in 2015. In the national order, the province of San Luis was rated in 2015 as the best managed in the country by private consultants for the seventh consecutive year in terms of Fiscal Efficiency, Social Indicators, Infrastructure, Fiscal Solvency, and Foreign Trade. In addition, in its ambition to create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Puiggrós
Adriana Puiggrós (born September 12, 1941) is an Argentine writer, academic and politician. Life Puiggrós was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. Her father was who was a historian and a communist. He changed political direction and joined the Peronist party, which was anti-Marxist, during the 1950s. Her father became the rector of the University of Buenos Aires in the early 1970s and Adriana was elected dean of the Philosophy faculty. She is a member of the Broad Front political party and on 17 December 2011 she was elected president of the party with Alberto Weretilneck as vice-president. In 2021 she was an adviser to the President Alberto Fernández Alberto Ángel Fernández (; born 2 April 1959) is an Argentine politician, lawyer, and academic who served as President of Argentina from 2019 to 2023. He was also the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2003 to 2008. His tenure as Cabin .... She was involved in a dispute over when to get children to return to school du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Front (Argentina)
The Broad Front (, FG) is a centre-left peronist political party in Argentina most prominent in the 1990s. The party is currently part of the former ruling Unión por la Patria coalition which supported Sergio Massa's presidential campaign. History The party was set up by a group of left-wing Justicialist Party members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, most notably Carlos Álvarez, and other left-wingers who were dissatisfied with the neo-liberal policies of President Carlos Menem, including dissident Christian Democrats led by Carlos Auyero and also figures such as Graciela Fernández Meijide. In 1990, the rebel Justicialists, having formed FredeJuSo, came together with the Communist Party of Argentina and others in a loose coalition. Álvarez proposed forming a unified party and dissolving the constituent members, thus automatically excluding the Communists, who left. In May 1993, they joined with '' Frente del Sur'', a party set up by film-maker Pino Solanas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Kirchner
Cristina is a female given name, and it is also a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Cristina (daughter of Edward the Exile), 11th-century English princess * Cristina (singer), Cristina Monet-Palaci (1956–2020), American singer * Infanta Cristina of Spain (born 1965), Spanish princess * Cristina D'Avena (born 1964), Italian singer and actress * Cristina Bazgan, French computer scientist * Cristina Boiț (born 1968), Romanian discus thrower * Cristina Bowerman, Italian chef * Cristina Butucea, French statistician * Cristina Buarque (1950–2025), Brazilian singer and composer * Cristina Cini (born 1969), Italian football assistant referee * Cristina Conati, Italian and Canadian computer scientist * Cristina Deutekom (1931–2014), Dutch opera singer * Cristina Dorcioman (born 1974), Romanian football referee * Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953), former president of Argentina * Cristina Fink (born 1964), Mexican high jumper * Cristina Gallardo-Domâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambiemos
(JxC, ) was a political coalition in Argentina. A liberal coalition, it was created in 2015 as Cambiemos (), and renamed in 2019. It was composed of Republican Proposal, Radical Civic Union, Civic Coalition ARI and United Republicans. These three parties respectively nominated Mauricio Macri, Ernesto Sanz, and Elisa Carrió as their representatives in the August 2015 primary elections, which were held to choose which candidate would run in the 2015 presidential election on 25 October. On 9 August, Macri was elected as the candidate who would represent Cambiemos in the presidential election; on 22 November, where he won in second round by 51%. Creation Initially, the pre-candidates Mauricio Macri, Daniel Scioli, and Sergio Massa had a triple tie in the polls for the 2015 presidential election. Scioli was the candidate of the Front for Victory, the ruling party at the time. The other parties created a political coalition, the Broad Front UNEN. Elisa Carrió, leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
