Progresistas

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Progresistas
Leader Margarita Stolbizer
Founded24 June 2015
Dissolved14 June 2017
Preceded by Broad Front UNEN
Ideology Social democracy [1]
Progressivism
Democratic socialism
Political position Centre-left [2]
Members PS
PSA
MLS
GEN
Website
progresistas.org.ar

Progresistas (Spanish : Progressives) was a center-left [3] political coalition in Argentina, led by Margarita Stolbizer. [4] It was composed of Generation for a National Encounter, the Freemen of the South Movement, the Socialist Party and the Authentic Socialist Party. [5]

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Margarita Stolbizer was candidate for the presidency of Argentina in the 2015 Argentine general election for the Progresistas ticket. She finished fifth with 2.51% of the vote, not enough to pass the threshold for the run-off. [6] In that election, the coalition's list got only one deputy elected to the Chamber of Deputies (Victoria Donda).

In the 2017 legislative election, the coalition's member parties formed different electoral alliances, and in the resulting composition of the National Congress, the Progresistas group was disbanded.

Members

Progresistas was composed of: [7]

PartyLeaderMain ideologyPosition
Socialist Party Antonio Bonfatti Social Democracy Centre-left to Left-wing
Authentic Socialist Party Mario Mazzitelli Democratic Socialism Left-wing
Freemen of the South Movement Humberto Tumini Left-wing Nationalism Centre-left to Left-wing
Generation for a National Encounter Margarita Stolbizer Social Democracy Centre-left

Electoral performance

President

Election yearCandidate1st round
# of overall votes % of overall vote
2015 Margarita Stolbizer 632,5512.51 (lost)

Legisladores

National Deputies

DiputadoPartidoProvincia
Alicia Mabel Ciciliani Socialist Party (Argentina) Santa Fe
Hermes Binner Socialist Party (Argentina) Santa Fe
Lucila Beatriz Dure Socialist Party (Argentina) Formosa
Gabriela Troiano Socialist Party (Argentina) Buenos Aires
Victoria Donda Freemen of the South Movement Buenos Aires
Federico Augusto Masso Freemen of the South Movement Tucumán
Graciela Cousinet Freemen of the South Movement Mendoza
Margarita Stolbizer Generation for a National Encounter Buenos Aires

National Senators

SenadorPartidoProvincia
Jaime Linares Generation for a National Encounter Buenos Aires

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References

  1. ""Somos la única fuerza política que expresa la socialdemocracia"".
  2. ""Somos la única fuerza política que expresa la socialdemocracia"".
  3. Para Stolbizer, la ruptura de UNEN fue "funcional a la continuidad del oficialismo"
  4. "Stolbizer: "No hubo nada más funcional al oficialismo que la destrucción de UNEN"". La Nación (in Spanish). 11 October 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  5. "Alianzas PASO 2015 Final" (PDF). electoral.gov.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  6. "Stolbizer quedó lejos, pero antició que va a "controlar al que gane"". Clarín (in Spanish). 26 October 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  7. {{(PDF) http://www.electoral.gov.ar/pdf/alianzas_paso_2015.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)