The Federalist Union Party ( es, Partido Unidad Federalista, PAUFE), initially named Party of Buenos Aires Unity ( es, Partido de la Unidad Bonaerense, PUB), is a

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active in various provinces of

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. Its most visible leader is the former police chief,

Luis Patti Luis Abelardo Patti (born 26 November 1952) is an Argentina, Argentine politician and a former senior police officer, convicted of involvement in torture and murder during the 1970s. He is leader of the conservative Federalist Union Party. Biogra ...

, former Mayor of Escobar, who is accused of torturing people during the last dictatorship. The Party has attracted many

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and takes an authoritarian line on law and order. Patti himself is a former policeman. Patti's

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wing of PaUFe was the first and has traditionally been the most successful. At the

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of 23 October 2005, Patti was candidate for National Deputy. He and one other PaUFe candidate were elected but he was prevented from taking his seat by a vote of deputies. The Party supported the

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candidate for Senator, Chiche Duhalde. Other deputies for the party have included former

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and Argentina

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er,

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, elected in 2001. The

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exposed the internal differences in PaUFe. In Buenos Aires, the Party largely stood in opposition to the governing

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(FPV) but there were splits. Both PaUFe deputies in the provincial legislature left the party to unofficially support the FPV. Patti stood to be governor of the Province. In Tierra del Fuego Province, a PaUFe section under the leadership of Juan Flores claims to be entirely separate from Patti. In 2007 this party supported

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for President and saw the election of its candidate,

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(a former

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governor), to the

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. Patti threatened to take the Tierra del Fuego party to court to prevent them supporting the FPV

Despite the Tierra del Fuego party's claims of being entirely separate, their relationship with Patti, who was taken into custody in November 2007, continued to be questioned. The PaUFe bloc in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, Chamber of Deputies has one deputy, Adriana Tomaz, who follows the Buenos Aires line. Colazo joined the majority FPV bloc in the Senate, as did Mariel Calchaquí, Tierra del Fuego deputy, in the Lower House.

References

External links

Official site (Buenos Aires)

Official site (Tierra del Fuego)
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