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Workers Left Front
The Workers' Left Front – Unity ( es, Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores – Unidad, FIT-U) is an alliance of initially three Trotskyist parties in Argentina formed to fight a number of elections in 2011, announced at a press conference in April that year. They are the Workers' Party (PO), the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS), and Socialist Left (IS). In 2019, the Workers' Socialist Movement (MST) joined the alliance. These parties had stood separately at the Argentine elections of 2007 and 2009, the PO on its own, and the PTS and IS in an alliance with the Movement for Socialism (MAS). At these two elections the PO did better than the PTS-IS-MAS alliance, and in 2009 both groupings seriously increased their vote in proportion to their vote in 2007. History 2011 On 12 June they won a provincial deputy in Neuquén Province with 3.60% of the vote. The post will be held in rotation by Alejandro López, Raúl Godoy (PTS), Angélica Lagunas (IS) and Gabriela Suppicich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Del Caño
Nicolás del Caño (born 6 February 1980) is an Argentine politician from the Socialist Workers' Partyhttp://www.diariouno.com.ar/mendoza/Nicolas-Del-Cao-compartira-la-banca-con-Soledad-Sosa-Empezamos-a-escribir-otra-historia-dijo--20131028-0009.html report on his election with photo (Spanish) and twice presidential candidate for the Workers' Left Front (FIT). Political career In 2006 he moved to Mendoza to help build the PTS in that province. He later entered to the National University of Cuyo, where he studied sociology while he had several jobs, such as selling ties or working in a call center. He won a seat for the Workers' Left Front in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Mendoza Province at the 2013 Argentine legislative election. This post was rotated with Soledad Sosa. During the 2011 elections he was candidate for Governor of Mendoza Province, managing 1.6% of votes. However, it was a surprise when, during the primary elections for the 2013 Argentinian legisl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Suppicich
Gabriela Suppicich is an activist in the Workers' Party (Argentina). She is a provincial deputy in Neuquén Province in Argentina. She was elected as a candidate of the Workers' Left Front, she holds the post in rotation, and took over from Angelica Lagunas in December 2014. She has previously worked as a social worker, and a lecturer at the National University of Comahue The National University of Comahue ( es, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, UNCNavarro, Fernando A. ''. Tremédica, Asociación Internacional de Traductores y Redactores de Medicina y Ciencias Afines/UNCoPortal de Prensa de la Uncoma, Universidad .... External links report (Spanish) of her taking her seat Living people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Sebastián López
Pablo Sebastián López (born 8 November 1975, Salta) is a member of the Workers' Party (Argentina), and a member of the Argentine national chamber of deputies. He was elected as a provincial deputy in Salta Province in 2001 and re-elected in 2005, and was replaced by Claudio del Plá in 2009. He was elected as a national deputy for Salta in the 2013 Argentine legislative election, nominally as a candidate of the Workers' Party, but effectively part of the Workers' Left Front The Workers' Left Front – Unity ( es, Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores – Unidad, FIT-U) is an alliance of initially three Trotskyist parties in Argentina formed to fight a number of elections in 2011, announced at a press conference .... He will be the Workers' Party's candidate for mayor of Salta city at the next election. References External links blog (Spanish) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Néstor Pitrola
Néstor Antonio Pitrola (born 1 April 1952, in Córdoba) is an Argentine trade unionist and leading member of the Workers' Party () of Argentina. Pitrola was his party's candidate for President of Argentina in October 2007. He and his running mate Gabriela Arroyo gained 113,004 votes, amounting to 0.62% of the vote in ninth place. Education and career *He did his secondary studies in Córdoba, where he was a student leader. *He began working as a bank clerk, was elected delegate from the Bank Galicia in the first half of the 70s . *After the coup of 1976 he moved to Buenos Aires, working in the printing industry and was elected the first delegate of the Editorial Atlantida and then, in 1984, deputy general secretary of the Graphical Federation . *In 1997, the plant closed Atlantis Publishing Garin, organized a protest picketing cutting the Panamerican Highway . Within the Labour Party (Argentina), helped organize the Polo Obrero, a group that achieved a significant presence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Argentine Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 27 October 2013. Open primary elections (PASO) were previously held on 11 August 2013 to determine eligible party lists for the general election. As in 2011 – when such primaries were held for the first time – each party list had to reach a 1.5% threshold at the provincial level in order to proceed to the 27 October polls. The elections renewed half of the members of the Chamber of Deputies for the period 2013–2017 and a third of the members of the Senate for the period 2013–2019. Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) elections were held in every district; Senate elections were, in turn, held in the provinces of Chaco, Entre Ríos, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, Santiago del Estero, and Tierra del Fuego, as well as in the City of Buenos Aires. Corrientes Province held the only elections for governor in 2013, doing so on 15 September. These elections included two significant novelties. Following the enactment of a law to that eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuquén
Neuquén (; arn, Nehuenken) is the capital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province. It occupies a strip of land west of the confluence of the Limay and Neuquén rivers which form the Río Negro, making it part of the ecoregion of Alto Valle del Río Negro. The city and surrounding area have a population of more than 340,000, making it the largest city in Patagonia. Along with the cities of Plottier and Cipolletti, it is part of the Neuquén – Plottier – Cipolletti conurbation. Founded in 1904, it is the newest provincial capital city in Argentina. Etymology The name of the city comes from the Neuquén River, which in Mapuche language means "water that has strength". This name was already used since 1884 for the federal territory. Since 1902, it was used for the railway station of the town, which at that time was a hamlet called Confluencia. The name of the town was officially chosen in 1904, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province and the province's capital until it was federalized in 1880. Since then, in spite of bearing the same name, the province does not include Buenos Aires proper, though it does include all other parts of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The capital of the province is the city of La Plata, founded in 1882. It is bordered by the provinces of Entre Ríos to the northeast, Santa Fe to the north, Córdoba to the northwest, La Pampa to the west, Río Negro to the south and west and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to the northeast. Uruguay is just across the Rio de la Plata to the northeast, and both are on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Almost the entire province is part of the Pampas geographical regio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Castillo (politician)
Christian Carlos Hernan Castillo (born March 28, 1967) is an Argentinian activist, politician, sociologist and university teacher. He is a founding member of the Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina) (PTS). In the 2013 elections he was voted in as a deputy for the Buenos Aires Province for the Workers Left Front; he resigned to his seat on June 10, 2015 to leave his place to the next candidate based on the banking rotation between the different parties that make up the Front. He was pre-candidate to Governor of the Buenos Aires Province during the 2015 primary elections, losing to Néstor Pitrola. University He was director of the Sociology department at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences. As a Marxist intellectual, he heads the Karl Marx Free Cathedra, which is taught in the Buenos Aires, La Plata, Neuquén, Córdoba, Mendoza, Jujuy, La Matanza, Tucumán and Quilmes Universities. As a university teacher, he has actively participated in struggles defend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Altamira
Jorge Altamira (born José Saúl Wermus in 1942), is an Argentine activist and politician leading the Workers' Party (''Partido Obrero'') in Argentina. He was born José Saúl Wermus (sometimes spelled "José Huermus") in Buenos Aires, on 14 April 1942. Altamira's parents were ethnically Jewish but spiritually atheist and he was raised without religious conviction. Son of a printing worker active in the Graphist Union, Altamira began participating in the labor movement at an early age, and took part in a number of strikes. Altamira had a son. He founded an advocacy magazine, ''Política Obrera'', in 1964, and, later a party by the same name. The party was banned following the March 1976 coup, however, though in 1982, amid the political liberalization that preceded the 1983 return to democracy, he founded the Workers' Party of Argentina. He was among five Workers' Party leaders arrested during the 1989 riots in Argentina on suspicion of incitement; the charges were later dropp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Vilches
Laura Vilches (born 24 March 1982) is an Argentinian teacher and politician. She is one of the national referents of the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS), a trotskyist party member of the Workers' Left Front (FIT) for which she was a provincial deputy in Córdoba Province from 2014 to 2015, and later from 2015 to 2019. She previously worked as a teacher of literature. Biography Laura Vilches was born on 24 March 1982 in the Santa Fe Province, but has lived in Córdoba since 1987. She grew up and lived as a child in the Bella Vista neighborhood. She studied highschool in the Manuel Belgrano school, where she was an activist and was several times elected as delegate of her class. In 2005, as she was studying Modern Languages in the National University of Córdoba, she participated in the protests for the abolishment of the Higher Studies Law (Ley de Educación Superior), approved years before by Carlos Menem and which Néstor Kirchner harshened. During that time, she would com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cintia Frencia
Cintia Frencia (born 18 May 1987) is a former member of the provincial legislature in Córdoba Province, Argentina. She is a member of the Workers' Party (Argentina), and was elected as a candidate of the Workers' Left Front. She held the post in rotation, taking over from Liliana Olivero in December 2013, and handing over to Laura Vilches in December 2014. She previously studied at the National University of Córdoba The National University of Córdoba ( es, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,) is an institution of higher education in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Founded in 1613, the university is the oldest in Argentina, the third oldest university of t .... External links article (Spanish)interview (Spanish)*Defensa de la banca del FIT (Spanish) Living people Workers' Party (Argentina) politicians 21st-century Argentine women politicians 21st-century Argentine politicians Politicians from Córdoba, Argentina 1987 births National University of Córdoba alum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Córdoba Province, Argentina
Córdoba () is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country. Its neighboring provinces are (clockwise from the north) Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, La Pampa, San Luis, La Rioja, and Catamarca. Together with Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, the province is part of the economic and political association known as the Center Region. Córdoba is the second-most populous Argentine province, with 3,308,876 inhabitants,Proyecciones y estimaciones de población 2001-2015 - INDEC - Pág 16. and the fifth by size, at about . Almost 41% of its inhabitants reside in the capital city, Córdoba, and its surroundings, making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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