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

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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

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s, had been

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during the 1989-99 administration of President

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. 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

's turn to the right. Solanas, a renowned film maker in the

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genre, established ''Proyecto Sur'' in August 2007 ahead of his campaign for president in that year's

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. 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

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to 11 members. Solanas entered into an alliance with the

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-led

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in June 2011 for the

. 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

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coalition supporting the 2019 Argentine presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez during the

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References

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