Union for the Homeland explained

Union for the Homeland should not be confused with Union for Homeland.

Union for the Homeland
Native Name:Unión por la Patria
Leader1 Title:Leaders
Leader1 Name:Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Sergio Massa
Juan Grabois
Leader2 Title:Senate leader
Leader2 Name:Juliana Di Tullio (UC)
José Mayans (FNyP)
Leader3 Title:Chamber of Deputies leader
Leader3 Name:Germán Martínez
Predecessor:Frente de Todos
Ideology:Peronism[1]
Factions:
Kirchnerism
Federal Peronism[2]
Position:Big tent
Colours: Blue White Yellow
(Argentine national colours)
Slogan:Spanish; Castilian: La patria sos vos. Vamos a defenderla.
("You are the Homeland. Let's defend it.")[3]
Seats2 Title:Senate
Seats1 Title:Chamber of Deputies
Seats3 Title:Governors
Country:Argentina
Website:porlapatria.org

The Union for the Homeland (Spanish; Castilian: Unión por la Patria, UP) is a political and electoral coalition of Peronist political parties in Argentina who are the main opposition coalition since December 2023.

The coalition was formed to compete in the 2023 general election,[4] and is a successor to the previous Frente de Todos coalition, whose candidate in the 2019 presidential election, Alberto Fernández, was successfully elected President of Argentina.[5] The coalition is centred on the Justicialist Party and its allies both on the federal and provincial levels, including the Renewal Front of Sergio Massa, who was the coalition's candidate for president in the 2023 presidential election.[6] [7]

History

Background

See main article: 2019 Argentine general election. In the run-up to the 2019 presidential election, the Kirchnerist faction of the Justicialist Party arranged for the establishment of a common Peronist electoral front. This project ultimately materialized with the formation of the Frente de Todos coalition, which comprised the Justicialist majority along with a number of other parties of the political left and centre. This alliance was itself a successor to both the short-lived Citizen's Unity bloc formed for the 2017 midterm elections as well as the Front for Victory, which served as the political instrument of the Kirchnerist political camp between 2003 and 2017. The alliance presented Alberto Fernández as its sole candidate in the 2019 presidential primaries, in which he secured just under 48% of the vote. In the subsequent general election, Fernández again garnered 48% of the vote, against the 40% of incumbent president Mauricio Macri of the Juntos por el Cambio coalition, ousting the sitting administration and returning the Peronists to power after four years in the opposition.[8] Fernández, along with his vice president, the former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, went on to govern the country for the ensuing four-year period. Halfway through this term, the Frente de Todos coalition suffered a significant defeat in the 2021 Argentine legislative election, losing seats in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, and thereby losing control of Congress for the first time in nearly 40 years.[9]

2023 election

See main article: 2023 Argentine general election. In April 2023, President Alberto Fernandez announced that he would not seek re-election in the next presidential election.[10] In the primary elections on August of that year, Sergio Massa defeated Juan Grabois by a margin of nearly 16 percentage points, although it became the worst result for a ruling Peronist coalition since the PASO was first implemented in 2009.[7]

In the runoff in November 2023, Libertarian candidate Javier Milei defeated Massa in the second round with 55.65% of the vote, the highest percentage since Argentina's transition to democracy. Massa conceded defeat shortly before the official results were published.[11] [12]

Ideology

Union for the Homeland is a Peronist[13] coalition, along with its internal currents, Federal Peronism[14] and Kirchnerism.[15] The coalition is considered mostly centre-left.[16] [17] [18] However, it also includes communist[19] factions, left-wing and also right-wing populists;[20] [21] conservative,[22] Catholic[23] and progressive parties.[24] Overall, it is a broad alliance that has right-wing,[25] centrist and leftist parties.[26]

Member parties

PartyLeaderIdeology
Justicialist PartyAlberto FernándezPeronism
Renewal Front[27] Sergio MassaFederal Peronism
Syncretism
Party of Culture, Education and LabourHugo MoyanoFederal Peronism
Labourism
Federal CommitmentAlberto Rodríguez SaáFederal Peronism
KolinaAlicia KirchnerKirchnerism
Victory PartyDiana ContiSocial democracy
Kirchnerism
New EncounterMartín SabbatellaProgressivism
SomosVictoria DondaSocialist feminism
bgcolor= Proyecto SurJorge SelserProgressivism[28]
Broad FrontAdriana PuiggrósKirchnerism
Social democracy
Peronism
Solidary PartyCarlos HellerCo-operatism
Socialism
bgcolor=#00478F Popular UnitySocialism of the 21st century
Left-wing nationalism
National Alfonsinist MovementLeopoldo MoreauSocial democracy
K Radicalism[29]
FORJASocial democracy
K Radicalism[30]
Communist PartyVictor KotCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Guevarism
bgcolor=red Communist Party (Extraordinary Congress)Pablo PereyraCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
bgcolor=red Revolutionary Communist PartyJuan Carlos AldereteCommunism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Intransigent PartyEnrique Gustavo CardesaDemocratic socialism
Patria Grande FrontJuan GraboisSocialism of the 21st century
Feminism
Kirchnerism[31]
La patria de los comunesEmilio PérsicoKirchnerism[32]
Protector Political Force[33] José Luis RamónSocial democracy
Conservative People's Party[34] Marco MichelliFederal Peronism

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Benavides . Sofía . 2023-08-02 . Unión por la Patria: cuál es el origen de la coalición y quién la compone . 2023-12-10 . CNN . es.
  2. Web site: Sourtech . Elecciones de Argentina 2023: del hartazgo al miedo hubo un(a) PASO - El Economista . 2023-12-10 . eleconomista.com.ar . es-AR.
  3. Web site: 2023-07-16. 2023-07-31. es. Uno por uno, todos los spots de campaña de los precandidatos a Presidente. www.cronista.com.
  4. News: Elecciones Argentina 2023: "Unión por la Patria" es el nuevo nombre del Frente de Todos . es . Página12 . 14 June 2023.
  5. News: Argentine incumbent Mauricio Macri concedes defeat in presidential vote . CNBC . 27 October 2019.
  6. News: Múgica Díaz . Joaquín . Unión por la Patria es el nuevo nombre elegido por el Frente de Todos para las elecciones . es . Infobae . 14 June 2023.
  7. News: Goñi . Uki . 2023-08-14 . Far-right outsider takes shock lead in Argentina primary election . The Guardian . 2023-08-14 . 0261-3077.
  8. News: Watson . Katy . Argentina election: Centre-left Alberto Fernández wins presidency . BBC . 28 October 2019.
  9. News: Bronstein . Hugh . Misculin . Nicolás . Argentina's Peronists on the ropes after bruising midterm defeat . Reuters . 15 November 2021.
  10. News: Argentina's President Fernandez will not seek re-election . Al-Jazeera . 21 April 2023 . en.
  11. Web site: 19 November 2023 . Balotaje 2023, en vivo: los resultados y las noticias minuto a minuto de las elecciones . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231119085250/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/balotaje-2023-en-argentina-en-vivo-nid18112023/ . 19 November 2023 . 19 November 2023 . LA NACION . es.
  12. News: Tagliabúe . Leonardo . 19 November 2023 . Contundente triunfo de Javier Milei: será el próximo presidente de la Argentina . Spanish . . live . 19 November 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231120001825/https://www.infobae.com/politica/2023/11/19/sergio-massa-reconocio-la-derrota-y-javier-milei-sera-el-proximo-presidente-de-la-argentina/ . 20 November 2023.
  13. Web site: Benavides . Sofía . 2023-08-02 . Unión por la Patria: cuál es el origen de la coalición y quién la compone . 2023-12-14 . CNN . es.
  14. Web site: Sourtech . Elecciones de Argentina 2023: del hartazgo al miedo hubo un(a) PASO - El Economista . 2023-12-14 . eleconomista.com.ar . es-AR.
  15. Web site: 2023-06-14 . Adiós Frente de Todos: ahora el kirchnerismo se llama "Unión por la Patria" . 2023-12-14 . Perfil . es.
  16. Web site: 2023-06-24 . Ministro de Economía será el candidato del oficialismo a la presidencia de Argentina . 2023-06-25 . France 24.
  17. Lake . Tom . Lewis . Jack . MINI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS-Argentina PASO Preview . Market News . "Alliance: Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria) – UP – Peronism, centre-left, centrism, Kirchnerism.".
  18. Web site: Argentina: Outcome of the 2023 elections – Beginning of a new era? . 27 November 2023 . Marc . Jutten . . "The big losers in the primaries were the Peronists, the ruling centre-left 'Union for the Homeland' (Union por la Patria/UP), who gained just 27.3 % of the votes – a historically bad result (compared to 47 % in 2019).".
  19. Web site: Jorge Kreyness: "Estamos en Unión por la Patria porque no somos una izquierda sectaria" . 2023-12-14 . CNN . 16 June 2023 . es.
  20. Web site: The Hard Right Is Ascendant in Argentina . 2023-12-14 . jacobin.com . en-US.
  21. News: ¿Qué representa la candidatura de Massa a la presidencia argentina? . .
  22. Web site: Katz . Claudio . 2023-09-02 . Los dilemas de la izquierda ante las elecciones argentinas . 2023-12-14 . Jacobin Revista . es-AR.
  23. Web site: Juan Grabois: 'Massa is my internal rival but my political enemies are Bullrich and Morales' Buenos Aires Times . 2023-12-14 . www.batimes.com.ar.
  24. Web site: 2023-08-21 . What Do Young Libertarians Think about Argentina's Javier Milei? . 2023-12-14 . National Review . en-US.
  25. Web site: Molina . Federico Rivas . 2023-11-18 . Sergio Massa, el político incombustible . 2023-12-14 . El País Argentina . es-AR.
  26. Web site: Jorge Kreyness: "Estamos en Unión por la Patria porque no somos una izquierda sectaria" . 2023-12-14 . CNN . 16 June 2023 . es.
  27. Web site: El PJ apoya la fórmula Alberto Fernández-Cristina Kirchner: "La unidad es el camino". 18 May 2019 .
  28. Web site: Proyecto Sur. Movimiento político, social y cultural. 30 June 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090630051147/http://www.proyecto-sur.org/causas.html. 30 June 2009. proyecto-sur.org. dead.
  29. Web site: El ascenso de Moreau, la nueva figura del universo kirchnerista. 16 August 2017.
  30. News: Tierra del Fuego: Melella se impuso a Bertone en primera vuelta. La Nación. 17 June 2019. Arias. Mariela.
  31. Web site: Un frente antineoliberal. 27 October 2018. 27 April 2020. Página/12. es.
  32. Web site: Los Movimientos sociales lanzaron el partido La Patria de los Comunes: críticas al Gobierno y respaldo a CFK. Social movements started the party "La patria de los comunes": criticism to the government and support to CFK. Spanish. March 17, 2023. TN. March 20, 2023.
  33. Web site: Mendoza: Frente de Todos sumó a José Luis Ramón y quiere encabezar la lista de diputados. Perfil. 14 July 2021. 17 July 2021. Mozetic. Daniela. es.
  34. Web site: 16 August 2023 . Quiénes son los 'dueños' de los 16 partidos que integran UP, Unión por la Patria . 27 August 2023 . Memo . es.

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