The government of Argentina,within the framework of a federal system,is a presidential representative democratic republic. The President of Argentina is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President. Legislative power is vested in the National Congress. The Judiciary is independent from the Executive and from the Legislature,and is vested in the Supreme Court and the lower national tribunals.
The politics of Argentina take place in the framework of what the Constitution defines as a federal presidential representative democratic republic,where the President of Argentina is both Head of State and Head of Government. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of the Argentine National Congress. The Judiciary is independent of the Executive and the Legislature. Elections take place regularly on a multi-party system.
Civic Coalition ARI,until October 2009 known as Support for an Egalitarian Republic,is a centrist political party in Argentina founded in 2002 by Elisa Carrió.
The Front for a Country in Solidarity was a center-left political coalition in Argentina. It was formed in 1994 out of the Broad Front,which had been founded mainly by progressive members of the Peronist Justicialist Party who denounced the policies and the alleged corruption of the Carlos Menem administration;the Frente joined with other dissenting Peronists,the Unidad Socialista and several other leftist parties and individuals. Its leading figures were JoséOctavio Bordón,Carlos "Chacho" Álvarez and Graciela Fernández Meijide.
Elisa María Avelina "Lilita" Carrió is an Argentine lawyer,professor,and politician. She is the leader of Civic Coalition ARI,one of the founders of Cambiemos,and was National Deputy for Chaco Province and Buenos Aires.
Aníbal Ibarra is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Buenos Aires.
Nilda Celia Garré is an Argentine lawyer,politician,and diplomat. She was Minister of Defense during the presidency of the late Nestor Kirchner and remained in this position,and as Minister of Security,under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. She was the first woman in her country's history to serve in either office. She also served as the Argentine Representative to the OAS. She served numerous terms as a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies,the latest one from 2015 to 2019.
María Laura Leguizamón is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She was a National Senator for Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2017 and for the City of Buenos Aires from 2003 to 2007. She also served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and in the Buenos Aires City Legislature.
Rosa Graciela Castagnola de Fernández Meijide,better known as Graciela Fernández Meijide is an Argentine teacher,human rights activist and politician. She came to prominence by investigating the forced disappearances of thousands of people during the Dirty War. She later served as a deputy,senator,and government minister for the FrePaSo party.
Alfredo Bravo was an Argentine Socialist politician,teacher,leader of the teachers' union CTERA,human rights fighter,and legislator.
The Civic Coalition was a political coalition in Argentina. It was founded by Elisa Carrió,as an association supported by the ARI party),as well as a number of other political groups and individual political leaders,notably UPT - Union for All of Patricia Bullrich and GEN - Generation for a National Encounter of Margarita Stolbizer.
María Eugenia Estenssoro is a Bolivian Argentine politician,journalist and activist for women's rights. She represented the city of Buenos Aires in the Argentine Senate from 2007 to 2013.
Solidarity and Equality is a centre-left Argentine political party,founded in 2008 as a splinter from ARI.
María Rosa Díaz de Vazquez is an Argentine politician,formerly of the Support for an Egalitarian Republic (ARI) party. She sat in the Argentine Senate representing Tierra del Fuego Province from 2007 to 2013.
JoséCarlos Martínez was an Argentine politician,formerly of ARI. He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Tierra del Fuego Province.
Graciela Ocaña is an Argentine politician.
Marta Gabriela Michetti Illia is an Argentine politician and was Vice President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019 during Mauricio Macri's administration. Before her,the only woman to serve as vice president was Isabel Perón.
Eduardo Gabriel Macaluse is an Argentine politician and teacher. He is a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and leads the Solidarity and Equality party (SI),a grouping of dissidents from the Support for an Egalitarian Republic party (ARI),which is part of the political party 'Proyecto Sur'.
Margarita Stolbizer is an Argentine lawyer and politician. Originally a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR),she founded her own party,Generation for a National Encounter (GEN) in 2007. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina on three occasions:from 1997 to 2005,from 2009 to 2017,and since 2021.
Evolución Ciudadana or simply Evolución,was an Argentine political coalition founded by Martin Lousteau in the City of Buenos Aires.
