The Civic Coalition (in Spanish, ''Coalición Cívica'') was a political

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. It was founded by

Elisa Carrió Elisa María Avelina "Lilita" Carrió (born 26 December 1956) 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 Ai ...

, 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

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and GEN -

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. Carrió ran for presidency on the 2007 election representing the Civic Coalition, along with the

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for

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. The coalition lost the election, although it did well in the largest cities of Argentina, getting support especially from the

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middle and

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. Carrió aroused a wave of murmurs by differentiating what he promised to be his

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from the one he observes today. She promised to "reestablish brotherhood with

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" as his first gesture of winning the presidency. She also said that he will promote a "new deal with the

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History

Leading figures of the Coalition, as well as Carrió, Bullrich and Stolbizer, include

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, former head of the Central Bank, and Senators

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and

Samuel Cabanchik Samuel, Manuel Cabanchik (born August 18, 1958) is an Argentine philosopher, academic and politician. He was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2007, representing the City of Buenos Aires on the Civic Coalition ticket. He left the Civic Coaliti ...

. The embrace by Carrió of these centrist figures proved controversial among more left-wing members of ARI and some national legislators declined to join the new expanded Civic Coalition grouping in Congress following the 2007 elections and instead formed a separate block called the Autonomous ARI. In May 2008, the block, led by

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, announced that they were forming a new party,

Solidarity and Equality Solidarity and Equality ( es, Solidaridad e Igualdad - SI, or simply SI) is a centre-left Argentine political party, founded in 2008 as a splinter from ARI. As part of building a broader coalition ahead of the 2007 elections, the ARI leader Elisa ...

(''Solidaridad e Igualdad - SI''). Others who left ARI were

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, Nelida Belous,

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and

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. Senator

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also appeared at the launch of SI. Several of the legislators who created the new party had won their seats in the 2007 election as part of the Civic Coalition, which they later opposed. The ARI deputies from Tierra del Fuego sit with the SI members in a separate block in the Chamber of Deputies. Subsequently Senators

and José Carlos Martínez left ARI altogether in March 2009. Since 2009, the coalition refounded itself as a party, called ''

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'' (CC-ARI), and works with the

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, Federal Consensus (ConFe), the vehicle of Vice-President

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) and the

, in the alliance

Civic and Social Agreement The Social and Civic Agreement ( es, Acuerdo Cívico y Social, ACyS) was a center-left congressional alliance in Argentina, integrated by the Radical Civic Union (UCR) the Socialist Party (PS) and the Civic Coalition ARI (CC-ARI), which acted as ...

(''ACyS''), although the actual situation of it varies in each district. The Civic Coalition left the Civic and Social Agreement on 12 August 2010.Con más críticas, Carrió se aleja del Acuerdo Cívico, ''La Nación''

Coalition members

Former members

References

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