Republican Proposal

PRO began as an alliance between Commitment to Change (CPC) of Mauricio Macri, and Recreate for Growth (Recrear) of Ricardo López Murphy created in 2005.

At the 2005 legislative elections the alliance won 9 of the 127 deputies up for election.

Other provincial center-right parties joined under the Recrear banner within PRO. Macri and López Murphy had been in discussions with Governor Jorge Sobisch, leader of the Neuquino People's Movement, another leading center-right politician, although these discussions broke down. Macri is the President of the alliance.

In the June 2007 elections in the City of Buenos Aires, PRO decisively won the election, with Macri becoming Head of Government and the alliance taking 15 of the 30 seats in the city legislature. In addition to Commitment to Change and Recreate for Growth, the alliance included the Democratic Progressive Party, the Democratic Party, the Federal Party, the Movement for Integration and Development (MID), the Popular Union, the White Party and the Front of Independent Youth.

In the October 2007 Presidential and legislative elections, PRO did not officially back a candidate but gave tacit support to the bid of López Murphy, who stood as the Recrear candidate. Sobisch also stood. López Murphy did poorly, gaining just 1.45% of the vote. PRO and its allies stood in the congressional elections and made a net gain of 2 seats in the Chamber of Deputies winning 6 seats overall. However, its 13% share of the vote in October 2007 in the city of Buenos Aires contrasted with its 44% share just a few months prior in the city elections.

In the provincial elections of Buenos Aires in 2007, Mauricio Macri formed an electoral alliance with Francisco de Narváez called Unión-PRO, which presented the formula Francisco de Narváez - Jorge Macri as candidates for governor and vice governor. De Narváez obtained third place with 15% of the vote

For the 2009 legislative elections, Francisco De Narváez and Felipe Solá were the main candidates for national deputies for the Buenos Aires Province.

In August 2009, Recreate for Growth gave up its formal independence and was completely absorbed by Republican Proposal. On 3 June 2010, the alliance became recognized as a national political party.[10]

In the legislative elections of June 28, 2009, the PRO was presented with its own list with Gabriela Michetti in the City of Buenos Aires and in alliance with the Federal Peronism in the province of Buenos Aires. Unión PRO won 19.21% of the votes and third place nationally.

In July 2011, PRO obtained a 46.1% vote in the City of Buenos Aires. In the second round on July 31, he reached the victory and re-election of Macri as Head of Government with 64.3% of the votes.

That same year, Jorge Macri was elected first mayor of the conurbano through PRO in the October elections with 38.4% in Vicente López.

In the province of Santa Fe, Unión PRO Federal, headed by Miguel del Sel obtained 35.2% of the votes, but Bonfatti obtained the governorship with 38.7%.

In the 2013 elections, he obtained legislative seats in the Córdoba Province, Entre Rios Province, La Pampa Province, Salta Province, San Juan Province, Santa Fe Province and the City of Buenos Aires. In the province of Buenos Aires he did not take his own candidate. In total, the PRO obtained 3 senators and 18 deputies with 7.7% of the votes in the whole country.

In June 2015, the Republican Proposal (PRO), Radical Civic Union and the ARI Civic Coalition formed Cambiemos, a big tent political coalition that proposes a change before the twelve years of government center-leftkirchnerists. Subsequently joined the FE Party, Union for Freedom, the Popular Conservative Party and the Progressive Democratic Party.

These three parties nominated Mauricio Macri, Ernesto Sanz and Elisa Carrió as their representatives in the August 2015 primary elections, which were held to choose which candidate would run for the 2015 presidential election on October 25. On August 9, 2015, Mauricio Macri was elected with 80.75% of the votes as the candidate who would represent Cambiemos in the presidential election.

On October 25, he won second place with 34.15% and managed to enter the ballotage. On November 22, he was elected President of Argentina with 51.34% of the votes after winning in the second round the Kirchnerist Daniel Scioli.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta was elected Head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires under another district coalition: Unión-PRO. María Eugenia Vidal (PRO) defeated Aníbal Fernández and became governor of the province of Buenos Aires, putting an end to 28 years of Peronist control.

Republican Proposal joined the International Democrat Union on 17 January 2017.[11]

In the legislative elections of 2017, Esteban Bullrich, member of Republican Proposal, obtained the first place and Cambiemos defeated the Citizen's Unity of the former Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

In June 2019, an extension of the Cambiemos alliance was made: it is renamed Juntos por el Cambio, by adding to Federal Peronism led by Miguel Ángel Pichetto, who would share the presidential formula of space together with Mauricio Macri. In the 2019 presidential elections, JxC was in second place, with 40% of the votes, behind Fernández, who won first round with 48% of the votes.

In the province of Buenos Aires, Governor María Eugenia Vidal sought re-election but was defeated by the candidate of the Frente de Todos, Axel Kicillof, who won 52% of the votes against 38% obtained by Together for Change.

In the City of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta joins the Radical Civil Union and the Socialist Party (Argentina) to the district alliance and is reelected as Head of Government with 56% of the votes in the first round.

President Macri and Vicepresident Gabriela Michetti, in their Inauguration Ceremony in Argentine Parliament, on 10 December 2015.

The party claims to revive the "spirit" of Arturo Frondizi, who was Argentine president of the Radical Civic Union between 1958 and 1962, on the website. In general, PRO can be classified as moderate conservatism, and there are also elements of economic liberalism.

PRO can be classified as a center-right party close to the liberal-conservative tradition and the economic liberal paradigm. An important part of PRO's fundamental ties come from other right-wing parties. From its inception, PRO sought alliances with parties and self-identified political leaders center-right. PRO is affiliated with the International Democratic Union, which groups conservative parties from different countries and has links with international networks of center-right think tanks such as the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Political analysts of the media, leaders of majority parties, and even some PRO officials agree in qualifying the party as "center-right." Mauricio Macri defined his own strength as "pro-market", which makes him convergent with the ideas of the center-right as they are usually defined in Latin America.

Despite the majority of PRO members, they refuse to accept that their party be classified as "right-wing" for various reasons. In Argentina, only 20% of citizens recognize themselves as right-wing and PRO, like other modern parties, to seek where there is a greater amount of potential votes, hoping to add voters to the center without losing the support of those on the right-wing. Among the PRO cadres, a rejection to be placed in the field of the right-wing prevails, which in Argentina is strongly associated with authoritarianism.

Young PRO (Jóvenes PRO) is the young wing within this political party with an ideology based on economic liberalism and social liberalism.[16] They are full members of the International Youth Democrat Union, a global association of conservative and center-right youth organizations.[17]

For many years, the youth wing of this match was led by Marcos Peña, one of the biggest referents of the PRO party.

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