Popular Dignity (), also known as the Popular Dignity Party (), is a

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and

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political party founded by Ernesto Raúl Habrá in 2015 to compete in the

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elections as a

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party. By 2019, the group would cover several districts, thus becoming a national party.

History

In 2017, the Popular Dignity Party tried to form a district alliance with the

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of the same style, the Popular Party. The National Electoral Chamber ratified a first instance ruling in which the judge Juan Manuel Culotta confirmed that the measure taken underlined the absence of official minutes and documents, with the respective signatures of party authorities, which would have confirmed their real and active existence. It stopped due to formal defects the payment of 72 million pesos to the Federal Union Front (name that the future front would bear) to finance the printing of

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s for the next Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASSED). This

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was considered as a typical "electoral SME", and had registered 26 lists, 13 for deputies and 13 for senators. In 2019, the political group participated in the provincial elections in two districts without an alliance: in the province of Buenos Aires, in which it nominated Santiago Cuneo for

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, and in the city of

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where they chose Leonardo Martínez Herrero as the city's head of government. The party failed to qualify for the general elections in any of its districts. In the presidential elections, they joined the far-right and neo-Nazi

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at the national level, and as a candidate nominated the

Alejandro Biondini. In the

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, the party formed various district alliances, the majority of which were

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. In the province of Buenos Aires, they joined the

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front

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. In the city of Buenos Aires, as well as in the

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, they joined the Patriot Front. In the

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, they joined the far-right

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. In the

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, they joined the governative alliance

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. In the Santiago del Estero Province, they joined the Labourist Patriotic Front.

Electoral justice fine for 18 million

In August 2022, the electoral court disapproved of the expense report made by Avanza Libertad for the printing of ballots for the 2021 elections, following a complaint made by members of the front originally from the Democratic Party and the Union of the Democratic Centre accusing members of the party. Thus, the Avanza Libertad alliance was penalized for a total of 18,197,516 pesos for not having been able to duly prove the destination for which state contributions were used in the presentation of the final report of the primary election campaign.

Name change and merger

In 2022,

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began to form a group and political party of

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origin to compete within the

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alliance in the

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. The Popular Dignity Party decided to merge with the Loyalty and Dignity party to join Pichetto's party, Federal Republican Encounter.

References

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