List of political parties in Argentina

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This article lists political parties in Argentina.

Argentina has a multi-party system with two or three strong political parties or alliances, and many smaller parties that enjoy representation at the National Congress.

Since the 1990s, there is a strong decentralizing tendency within the national parties, along with the growing national relevance of province-level parties and alliances. In the last decade, most of the newly formed parties remained as junior partners of the main alliances or as district-level relevant political forces.

Historic background

From the "national organisation" process (1862–80) up to 1916, the oligarchic National Autonomist Party directed Argentine politics, before being replaced, through the first secret ballot elections, by the Radical Civic Union. The "Infamous Decade" (1930–43), initiated by the first modern coup d'état in Argentina, represented a return of the conservatives, who implemented a so-called "patriotic fraud" electoral practice. Since 1946, the strongest party has been the Justicialist Party, emerging around the leadership of Juan Perón (when not banned, justicialists lost only three presidential elections, in 1983, 1999 and 2015). From 1946 to 2001, the second most important party was the Radical Civic Union, until the 2001 financial crisis. From then on, left-wing Justicialists Néstor Kirchner and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won the 2003, 2007 and 2011 general elections. After that, in the 2015 general election, Kirchnerism was defeated by a centre-right coalition, Cambiemos, composed of the Radical Civic Union and Republican Proposal, a new liberal conservative party.

Current parties

Major parties and alliances (as of 2015)

Minor national parties (as of 2015)

Other parties and alliances enjoying national legislative representation or Provincial Governorships.

Electoral Alliances

Recent or prominent electoral alliances (as of 2009[1])

  • Plural Consensus (Concertación Plural)
  • Civic and Social Agreement (Acuerdo Cívico y Social, ACyS)
  • Union PRO (Buenos Aires Province)
  • Justicialist Front (Frente Justicialista)
  • Federal Santa Fe (Santa Fe Federal, Santa Fe Province)
  • Federal Civic Front (Frente Cívico Federal, Mendoza Province)
  • Federal Consensus (Consenso Federal, ConFe)
  • Front of the Popular Movement (Frente del Movimiento Popular, UP)
  • Alliance Union of Cordoba (Alianza Unión de Córdoba, Córdoba Province)
  • Alliance New Front (Alianza Frente Nuevo, Córdoba Province)
  • Justicialist Front of Entre Ríos (Frente Justicialista de Entre Ríos, Entre Ríos Province)
  • Front for Integration (Chubut) (Frente para la Integración, Chubut Province)
  • Front of Jujuy (Frente Jujeño, Jujuy Province)
  • Concertation for Development (Río Negro) (Concertación para el Desarrollo, Río Negro Province)
  • Change for Growth (Santa Cruz) (Cambio para el Crecimiento, Santa Cruz Province)
  • Salta Federal Front (Frente Salta Federal, Salta Province)
  • We are all Salta (Todos Somos Salta, Salta Province)
  • Front It Is Possible (Frente Es Posible)
  • Democratic Party PRO (Mendoza) (Partido Demócrata PRO, Mendoza Province)
  • Pueblo Nuevo (La Pampa) (Pueblo Nuevo, La Pampa Province)
  • Anticapitalist and Socialist Front of the Left and the People (Frente Anticapitalista y Socialista de la Izquierda y el Pueblo)
  • Party of Labour and of the People (Partido del Trabajo y del Pueblo)

Defunct parties and alliances

19th Century and early 20th Century
Mid 20th Century
Late 20th Century and early 21st Century

See also

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