Evita Movement

The Evita Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Evita) is a social, piquetero, and union movement, and a political group of Argentina, which is defined by Peronist, national, popular, and revolutionary ideology.[3] It was created in 2004 and was part of the Front for Victory that governed from 2003 to 2015. In 2016 the Evita Movement separated from the parliamentary bloc of the Front for Victory, forming one of its own called Peronism for Victory.[4] Its name was adopted as a tribute to former First Lady Eva Perón. It is a member of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy (CTEP).

Evita Movement
Secretary-GeneralEmilio Pérsico
Bench leader in the Chamber of DeputiesLeonardo Grosso
FoundedJune 2004 (2004-06)
Youth wingJuventud Peronista Evita
IdeologyPeronism
Kirchnerism
Left-wing nationalism
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationFrente de Todos
Regional affiliationForo de São Paulo
Mercosur Parliament groupGrupo Progresista
ColorsWhite, Blue
Senators[1]
0 / 72
Deputies[2]
4 / 257
Governors
0 / 24
Mercosur Parliamentarians
1 / 43
Website
movimiento-evita.org.ar

Its general secretary is Emilio Pérsico.[5] Other major figures of the movement are former minister Jorge Taiana, national deputies Leonardo Grosso (president of the Movement's bloc in the Chamber of Deputies), Silvia Horne, Remo Carlotto, Lucila De Ponti, and Araceli Ferreyra, former senators Juan Manuel Abal Medina Jr. and Teresita Luna, the journalist Fernando "Chino" Navarro, and Evita-CTEP liaison Esteban Castro.[5]

History

The Evita Movement emerged in 2004, as a result of the union of diverse groups from the Quebracho Revolutionary Patriotic Movement and the Anibal Verón Current of Unemployed Workers, with roots mainly in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.[6]

In its first year, the Evita Movement organized itself as a piquetero unemployed movement (MTD), but later redefined its purpose to reorganize itself as a popular revolutionary wing of Kirchnerism, acting with ample autonomy both inside and outside the Justicialist Party (PJ). In 2007 Emilio Pérsico was named secretary of Territorial Organizations of the PJ. One of the unusual characteristics of the Evita Movement is that its electoral secretary has lacked interest in holding political office.[6]

The Evita Movement, like other movements of the unemployed, grants a central role to the organization of its members to work cooperatively, mainly in the construction of popular housing, financed by the state. The popular power policy of the Evita Movement was explained in these terms by one of its members:

The popular organization determines the possibility for participants' appropriation of public policy decisions and of the allocation of resources. And this generates a much more solid relationship of public policy [with the beneficiaries] that makes this process more difficult to reverse. When a person in a cooperative builds fifty houses, how can you tell him that he no longer has his job? On the other hand, when the houses are built by a company, the company just submits another tender to the state. This does not produce a relationship of power in which the active participants are the people. We call this social policy, as Evita [Perón] called it: "the organized popular force", "the popular power".[7]

It participated in the 2017 legislative election, joining the Citizen's Unity electoral front.[8]

References
  1. "Bloques Politicos" [Political Blocs] (in Spanish). Argentine Senate. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  2. "Interbloques" (in Spanish). Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  3. Boyanovsky Bazán, Christian (1 February 2012). "Epílogo" [Epilogue]. El aluvión: Del Piquete al Gobierno: Los movimientos sociales y el Kirchnerismo [The Alluvium: From the Picket to the Government: Social Movements and Kirchnerism] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House. ISBN 9789500735612. Retrieved 27 June 2018 – via Google Books.
  4. "El Movimiento Evita abandona el bloque kirchnerista en Diputados" [The Evita Movement Abandons the Kirchnerist Bloc in Deputies]. Perfil (in Spanish). 23 June 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  5. Caminos, Mauricio (12 October 2016). "Movimiento Evita, la organización kirchnerista que aún crece durante el macrismo" [Evita Movement, the Kirchnerist Organization that Still Grows During Macrism]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  6. Rossi, Federico M. (14 July 2015). "Beyond Clientelism: The Piquetero Movement and the State in Argentina". In Almeida, Paul; Cordero Ulate, Allen (eds.). Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America. Springer. pp. 117–127. ISBN 9789401799126. Retrieved 27 June 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. Rossi, Federico M.; von Bülow, Marisa, eds. (3 March 2016). "Conceptualizing Strategy Making in a Historical and Collective Perspective". Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America. Routledge. p. 36. ISBN 9781317053712. Retrieved 28 June 2018 – via Google Books.
  8. Bullorini, Jazmín (29 June 2017). "Efecto Cristina: Taiana se enojó con el Movimiento Evita porque apoya a Randazzo y pidió licencia" [Cristina Effect: Taiana Got Angry with the Evita Movement Because She Supports Randazzo and Asked for Leave]. Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2018.
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