Freedom Advances Avanza Libertad | |
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Abbreviation | AL |
Leader | José Luis Espert |
Founded | 12 June 2019 (Frente Despertar) 7 December 2020 (Avanza Libertad) |
Dissolved | 2024 |
Merged into | La Libertad Avanza |
Newspaper | Buenos Aires |
Ideology | |
Political position | Right-wing to far-right [A] |
Coalition members | Union of the Democratic Centre Libertarian Party Democratic Party Autonomist Party United Republicans |
Colours | Blue Black |
^ A: It included centre-right and far-right factions. [1] [2] [3] |
Avanza Libertad (English: Freedom Advances; AL), originally founded in 2019 as Frente Despertar (English: Awakening Front; FD), was an Argentine right-wing political coalition. Renamed in 2020, Avanza Libertad had legal status in the Buenos Aires Province. [4] [5] [6] Ideologically, it is libertarian conservative, [7] [8] [9] supportive of economic liberalism, [10] [11] [12] and critical of both Kirchnerism and Juntos por el Cambio. [13] Led by José Luis Espert, [14] [15] [16] it included centre-right and far-right factions, [1] [2] [3] with its more radical factions being compared to Spain's Vox. [17]
The coalition members included the Union of the Democratic Centre, [18] the Democratic Party of the City of Buenos Aires, [19] the Autonomist Party, [20] and the United Republicans. [21] Espert ran in the legislative elections with his own alliance of centre-right and right-wing parties. The presentation was made after the negotiations with the leaders of Juntos por el Cambio failed. [22] Previously, the alliance in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires also included Javier Milei, who later confirmed that he would compete separately from Espert. [23] [24] [25]
On 11 June 2019, the coalition Frente Despertar was made official before the courts, which led to José Luis Espert, as candidate for president, and Luis Rosales, as candidate for vice president, in the 2019 Argentine general election. [26] [27] Espert had declared his intention to participate in the presidential race on 23 December 2018. [28] This national alliance was made up of the Unite for Freedom and Dignity party, the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCEDE) except in the City of Buenos Aires, and some sectors of the Libertarian Party. [29] In the beginning, the alliance had the support of Alberto Asseff, president of the UNIR Constitutional Nationalist Party; after a sudden change, he decided to leave the front and support Juntos por el Cambio. [30] This fact caused that the ex alliance was almost terminated by Assef's sudden change; due to the signing of the UNITE seal, he was able to participate in the elections a few days later. [31]
Espert launched his electoral campaign at the Héctor Etchart stadium of the Ferro Carril Oeste club, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito, where he was accompanied by his main candidates. There he asked to vote "neither with fear nor anger" and abandon "the crack speech". [32] In the primary elections, the electoral coalition obtained 2.16% of the votes, a total of 550,593 votes. [33] Having exceeded 1.5% of the required votes, they were able to stand in the general elections. In the October elections they obtained a total of 394,206 votes, 1.47% of the votes; being, in this way, last in front of five other candidates. [34]
In September 2020, during a live broadcast with Espert, the economist Javier Milei confirmed that he would be a candidate for deputy for the City of Buenos Aires, on behalf of the Frente Despertar. [35] On 23 October 2020, the lawyer, Francisco Oneto also made the decision to support the space by adhering to its electoral proposals. [36]
On 10 March 2021, a meeting was held between the main referents of the Autonomist Party, the Democratic Party, the UCEDE, United Republicans, the Republican Liberal Party, and Valores para mi País for the formation of an electoral coalition called as Frente Vamos, whose objective was to compete in the 2021 Argentine legislative election. [37] Soon after, José Antonio Romero Feris, president of the Autonomist Party, announced that he would not participate in any electoral alliance that "divides the opposition political arc". [38]
In June 2021, Espert proposed a broad opposition front against the government of Axel Kicillof in the province of Buenos Aires for the 2021 legislative election, and that it would include anti-Kirchnerist sectors like Juntos por el Cambio. [39] [40]
On 14 July 2021, the closing day for the presentation of alliances for the legislative elections of 2021, the Avanza Libertad coalition was made official with parties from the Argentine political centre-right sector in the province of Buenos Aires. The UCEDE, the Democratic Party, and the Autonomist Party took part in the coalition, in addition to political groups in the province, such as United Republicans and the Republican Libertarian Movement. [41]
The electoral platform of Avanza Libertad has fourteen proposals. [42] They were announced in conjunction with Espert's candidacy and published on the coalition's website, where they were developed more broadly. [43]
Various journalistic media and referents of Argentine economic liberalism criticized the alleged financing by Kirchnerism of the 2019 Argentine general election campaign of the Despertar Front for which its campaign manager, the former member of the Civic Coalition ARI, Nazareno Etchepare, would have resigned. Luis Rosales forcefully denied all the accusations. [44] [45] [46] In turn, an alleged collaboration by Kirchnerism in the control of the ballots during the elections came to light and so that the front could print its ballots in the province of Buenos Aires glued to its local candidates. [47]
In August 2020, the journalist Eduardo Feinmann revived these accusations on his television program and social networks, stating that Espert's candidacy was promoted by the former president and political shipowner Eduardo Duhalde, [48] [49] that it was financed by Eduardo de Pedro and mayors of the suburbs and later by the head of government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. This last statement was confirmed by the former first candidate for Buenos Aires legislator linked to the convicted former minister Julio de Vido, [50] Gonzalo Díaz Córdoba, [51] who was appointed in 2020 by the Buenos Aires government as trustee of the Puerto Madero Corporation. [52] [53] [54] The economist Diego Giacomini, who accompanied Espert during the first part of his 2019 campaign, and the musician Emmanuel Danann, also confirmed the previous accusations, [55] indicating that Espert would have been promoted by Eduardo Duhalde and Carlos Menem to subtract votes from Mauricio Macri's camp and allow the Frente de Todos to reach the ballot. [56] [57]
The Despertar Front was also accused of having rented the parties presided over by Alberto Assef (UNIR) and José Bonacci (UNITE) in exchange for money. [58] [44] Although the financing reports of the Frente Despertar campaign did not declare private contributions, it is suspected that the campaign was financed by Federico "Fred" Machado, a businessman arrested for crimes of illicit association for the manufacture and distribution of cocaine, money laundering, and fraud. [59] [60] [61] It was also argued that the campaign received contributions from the governor of the province of Formosa, Gildo Insfrán, and the late banker Jorge Horacio Brito, thanks to the link between Sergio Massa and Daniel Ivoskus. [62] [63] Finally, it was said that Daniel Vila, president of Grupo América, supported Espert's candidacy. [64] [65] As a result of the doubts related to the financing of the presidential campaign of the ex-Frente Despertar in 2019 and the ties with Machado, Espert was denounced along with Rosales, Milei, Jimena Aristizabal, and Nazareno Etchepare, before the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 8, for the crimes of concealment and illicit association. [66] [67]
Party | President | Ideology | Position | |
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Union of the Democratic Centre | Hugo Bontempo | Classical liberalism | Right-wing | |
Democratic Party of the City of Buenos Aires (left in 2022) | Carlos Nestor Onteiro (interventor) [68] | Conservative liberalism | Centre-right | |
Libertarian Party (left in 2021) | Lucas Gazzotti | Libertarian conservatism | Right-wing | |
Autonomist Party | José Romero Feris | Autonomism | Centre-right | |
United Republicans | Sebastián "Vasco" Pascual | Liberalism | Right-wing | |
Republican Libertarian Movement | Luciano Silva | Liberalism | Centre-right | |
Popular Dignity | Ernesto Raúl Habra | Neo-Nazism [69] | Far-right | |
Alternative Plural Encounter | Andrés Resa | Federal Peronism [70] | Right-wing |
Year | Ticket | Primary | First round | Result | Notes | ||||
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President | Vice President | Votes | % | Votes | % | Position | |||
2019 | José Luis Espert | Luis Rosales | 550.593 | 394,206 | 6th |
Year | Primary | General | Seats | Position | |||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | Obtained | Total | ||
2021 | 417.858 | 656.487 | 2 / 35 | 2 / 70 | 3º |
Year | Votes | % | Seats | Position | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Obtained | Total | ||||
2021 | 288.536 | 3 / 46 | 3 / 92 | 3th |
Year | Votes | % | Seats | Position | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Obtained | Total | ||||
2021 | 334.228 | 0 / 23 | 0 / 46 | 3th |
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