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1985 Argentine Legislative Election
The Argentine legislative elections of 1985 were held on 3 November. Voters chose their legislators and, with a turnout of 83.8%. Background Raúl Alfonsín's 1983 inaugural had ushered in a new beginning for Argentina in significant ways, chief among them a new relationship between the Argentine military and government. Economic policy continued to dominate political dynamics, however, a concern exacerbated by the economic crisis inherited from the previous regime. The nation's leading labor union, the CGT was close to Alfonsín's chief opposition, the Justicialist Party, and the tension between the CGT and Alfonsín so evident during 1984 (despite the President's populist early policies) turned to hostility after he replaced the pragmatic Bernardo Grinspun for the more conservative Juan Sourrouille in February 1985. Sorrouille curtailed his predecessor's wage indexation policy (amid 25% monthly inflation), leading to a sudden decline in real wages. Social discontent was comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Argentine General Election
The Argentine general election of 1983 was held on 30 October and marked the return of constitutional rule following the self-styled National Reorganization Process dictatorship installed in 1976. Voters fully chose the president, governors, mayors, and their respective national, province and town legislators; with a turnout of 85.6%. Background In 1976 the military announced a coup d'état against President Isabel Perón with problems of financial instability, inflation, endemic corruption, international isolation and violence that typified her last year in office. Many citizens believed the National Reorganization Process, the junta's government, would improve the general state of Argentina. As that regime's third dictator, General Leopoldo Galtieri, awoke in the early hours of June 18, 1982, to find a letter requesting he resign, however, he had no doubt that the Process had run its course. Against the wishes of Galtieri's commanders, the Joint Chiefs chose Army General Reyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty War
The Dirty War ( es, Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina ( es, dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina, links=no) for the period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military and security forces and right-wing death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA, or Triple A) hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism, left-wing Peronism, or the Montoneros movement.''Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina, '' Antonius C. G. M. Robben, p. 145, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard, ''Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo,'' p. 22, Rowman & Littlefield, 1994 It is estimated that between 9,000 and 30,000 people were killed or disappeared, many of whom were impossible to formally document due to the nature of state terrorism. The primary target, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workers' Party (Argentina)
The Workers' Party ( es, Partido Obrero, PO) is an Argentine Trotskyist political party. It is the largest national section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International. In the 2009 legislative election, the party received 1.1% of the vote. Its strongest vote in this and some other recent elections has been in Salta Province in the north west, particularly in the city of Salta itself; its next best was in neighbouring Catamarca. Its members have included Jorge Altamira, Néstor Pitrola, Claudio del Plá, Amanda Martin Amanda Dillon is a fictional character from the American daytime television soap opera '' All My Children''. She is the daughter of police officer/detective Trevor Dillon and longtime series villain Janet Marlowe aka "Janet from Another Planet"; ... and Mariano Ferreyra. It participates in the Workers Left Front, which had some success in elections in 2011. Following elections in 2013 it now has two national deputies, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Party (Argentina)
The Christian Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC), also called simply Christian Democracy ( es, Democracia Cristiana, DC), is a Christian democrat political party in Argentina. History In 1947 the Christian Democrat Organization of America was founded to advocate the principles of Christian Democracy in their respective countries. Each of the member parties is different, sometimes having differing views of Christian Democracy itself. Some of the member parties are in government in their country, others are in coalition government, and others are not in government. When President Perón was reelected in 1952, the government's relationship with the Catholic Church also worsened. As Perón increasingly distanced itself from the Church, the government, which had first respected the Church's privileges, now took them away in a distinctly confrontational fashion. By 1954, the Peronist was openly anti-Church. Meanwhile, a Christian Democratic Party was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salta Renewal Party
The Salta Renewal Party ( es, Partido Renovador de Salta; PRS) is a conservative provincial political party in Salta Province, Argentina. The party is a federalist party, believing in strong and renewed provinces with power decentralised from Buenos Aires. It is a member of the national Recrear electoral alliance led by Ricardo López Murphy. The party was founded in the 1980s as the country was preparing for a return to democracy. Salta had a tradition of local parties, but the Salta Popular Movement had declined in the 1970s and the national Radical Civic Union (UCR) was not a strong opponent in Salta of the ruling Justicialist Party. A group of activists formed the Party on 1983-10-30, named by Jorge Folloni. In the first provincial elections after the dictatorship, on 1983-10-30, the Salta Renewal Party received 52,000 votes and third place in the province, gaining 15 members of the provincial legislature. In 1991 Roberto Ulloa was elected governor of Salta for the party, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Mendoza)
The Democratic Party is a provincial conservative and liberal party in Mendoza, Argentina. It was founded in 1931. History and principles Since the return of the democracy in 1983, the party has been the third political force in Mendoza, except in 1999 when it won the second position in the elections. For many years it was led by former national deputy and candidate for governor of the province Carlos Balter. In 2006, the president of the Democratic Party and national deputy, Omar De Marchi, asked "forgiveness" for the participation of leaders of this party during the last dictatorship. The Democratic Party promised to strengthen the role of the party in Cambiemos, which governs the province with Alfredo Cornejo. History It was member of the national Recrear electoral alliance led by Ricardo López Murphy although in 2007 it supported the presidential bid of Roberto Lavagna rather than that of López Murphy. In the 2013 legislative elections, it formed a center-rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Corrientes
The Liberal Party of Corrientes ( es, Partido Liberal de Corrientes) is a liberal provincial political party in Corrientes Province, Argentina. Founded in 1856, it is the oldest political party in Argentina still active."Un siglo y medio del Partido Liberal" '''', 15 December 2006. Accessed 13 April 2009."El Partido Liberal celebra el 15 de diciembre 152 años de vida" '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autonomist Party Of Corrientes
The Autonomist Party of Corrientes ( es, Partido Autonomista de Corrientes) is a liberal provincial political party in Corrientes Province, Argentina. History It is the claimed successor of the National Autonomist Party The National Autonomist Party ( es, Partido Autonomista Nacional; PAN) was the ruling political party of Argentina from 1874 to 1916. In 1880, Julio Argentino Roca assumed the presidency under the motto "peace and administration". History The ... in the Province of Corrientes. References Provincial political parties in Argentina {{Argentina-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Progressive Party (Argentina)
The Democratic Progressive Party () is a political party in Argentina, principally active in Santa Fe. History It was founded by Lisandro de la Torre Lisandro de la Torre (6 December 1868 – 5 January 1939) was an Argentine politician, born in Rosario, Santa Fe. He was considered as a model of ethics in politics. He was a national deputy and senator, a prominent polemicist, and founde ... at the Savoy Hotel in Buenos Aires on December 14, 1914. In the 1983 election, the Democratic Progressive Party made an alliance with the Socialist Democratic Party by proposing the Formula Martínez Raymonda - René Balestra, obtaining 0.32% of the vote, without obtaining parliamentary representation. References Provincial political parties in Argentina Political parties established in 1914 Conservative parties in Argentina 1914 establishments in Argentina {{Argentina-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (Argentina)
The Socialist Party ( es, Partido Socialista, PS) is a centre-left political party in Argentina. Founded in 1896, it is one of the oldest still-active parties in Argentina, alongside the Radical Civic Union. The party has been an opponent of Kirchnerism and Mauricio Macri Mauricio Macri (; born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previo .... History Early history The history of socialism in Argentina began in the 1890s, when a group of people, notably Juan B. Justo, expressed the need for a greater social focus. The PS itself was founded in 1896, led by Justo and Nicolás Repetto, thus becoming the first Political party#Types of political parties, mass party in the country. The party affiliated itself with the Second International. Between 1924 and 1940 it was a member of the Labour and Socialist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Party (1973)
The Federal Party is an Argentine political party founded by Francisco Manrique in 1973. It was intended to be the successor party to the military government created by coup d'etat in 1966 and known as the Argentine Revolution of which its founder was a minister. For the March 1973 Argentine general election, they allied with the Democratic Progressive Party, which contributed the candidate for vice-president , obtaining a third-place showing with 14.9% of the votes. From 1974 to 1976, it formed part of the opposition to Isabel Perón. In the 1983 Argentine general election, the first since the 1976 coup, it was part of the In 1987, the party merged into Raúl Alfonsín Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (12 March 1927 – 31 March 2009) was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989. He was the first democratically elected president after more than ...'s Convergencia Programática party, before separating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Front (Argentina)
The People's Front ( es, Frente del Pueblo, abbreviated FREPU) was a political coalition in Argentina, formed ahead of the 1985 parliamentary election. FREPU consisted of the Communist Party of Argentina, Movement for Socialism and a small group of Peronist trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...ists. FREPU obtained around 350,000 votes.''Un siglo de luchas: historia del movimiento obrero argentino''. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Antídoto, 1988. pp. 315-316 References Communist Party of Argentina Defunct political party alliances in Argentina {{Argentina-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
