Neighbourhood Action Movement Explained

Neighbourhood Action Movement
Native Name:Movimiento de Acción Vecinal
Colorcode:
  1. 029b48
Leader1 Title:President
Leader1 Name:Martín Dandach[1]
Founded:[2]
Membership Year:2017
Membership: 12,773[3] [4]
Ideology:Localism[5]
Centrism[6]
Position:Center-right[7]
Colors: Green[8]
Seats1 Title:Seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Seats2 Title:Seats in the Senate
Country:Argentina

The Neighbourhood Action Movement (es|Movimiento de Acción Vecinal; MAV) is a national localist[5] political party in Argentina based in Córdoba Province. It was founded in 1999 by Kasem Dandach, an immigrant from Lebanon who served as a provincial lawmaker.[2] It has run its own candidates in presidential elections in 2015 and 2019; both times, it has failed to secure enough votes to cross the threshold mandated by the Mandatory, Open and Simultaneous Primaries (PASO) to participate in the general election.[9] According to them, they are a centrist group, although the media consider them center-right.

According to Raúl Albarracín, the party's leader in Córdoba Province and twice presidential candidate, the Neighbourhood Action Movement stands for a free market economy, supporting regional economies in Argentina's provinces and introducing a reform of the judiciary.[6]

Electoral performance

President

Election yearCandidatePASOResult
  1. of overall votes
% of overall vote
2015Raúl Albarracínbgcolor=#029b48  39,5120.18 (11th) Failed to pass threshold
2019Raúl Albarracínbgcolor=#029b48  36,4110.14 (9th) Failed to pass threshold

Notes and References

  1. 30 July 2020. Martin Dandach en Vení Mañana por Telefé. Television production. es. 26 November 2020.
  2. Web site: "Queremos la unidad en serio". El Diario. 4 May 2019. 26 November 2020. es.
  3. Web site: AFILIACIONES A LOS PARTIDOS POLITICOS. electoral.gob.ar. es. 14 May 2020.
  4. Web site: Estadística de Afiliados. electoral.gob.ar. es. 2016. 14 May 2020.
  5. Web site: Hamid Dib precandidato a diputado del Parlasur. Diario Sirio Libanés. 5 August 2015. 26 November 2020. es.
  6. Web site: El candidato "contra": quién es el único presidencial que no lleva foto de su vice en la boleta. Clarín. 23 July 2019. 26 November 2020. es.
  7. Book: Corrêa, Sonia . Anti-gender politics in Latin America in the pandemic context . 2022 . Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinas de Aids - ABIA . 978-65-87854-15-1 . en-US.
  8. Web site: Así es la boleta de Movimiento de Acción Vecinal para las Elecciones 2019. La Nación. 25 July 2019. 26 November 2020. es.
  9. Web site: PASO 2019: quiénes son los precandidatos que no llegaron a octubre. La Nación. 11 August 2019. 26 November 2020. es.