The Front for a Country in Solidarity ( or ) was a center-left political coalition in

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. It was formed in 1994 out of the Broad Front (''Frente Grande''), which had been founded mainly by progressive members of the

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who denounced the policies and the alleged corruption of the

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administration; the Frente joined with other dissenting Peronists, the Unidad Socialista ( Popular and Democratic Socialist Party) and several other leftist parties and individuals. Its leading figures were

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, Carlos "Chacho" Álvarez and

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History

Shortly after the founding of the party, Bordón stood for President at the 1995 elections with Álvarez as running mate. The campaign was very successful, and Bordón came second with 33 percent of the vote. Subsequently, Bordón proposed converting FrePaSo into a unified party, while Álvarez wanted a loose confederation of different parties. On May 17, 1995, Bordón and Álvarez announced the formation of a confederation, with a unified political platform and leadership, with the third largest block in the

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. The

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and the Christian Democratic Party joined the coalition. Bordón later resigned after a leadership battle and returned to the Justicialist Party. The FrePaSo campaigned for the

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in an alliance with the larger

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(UCR) and a few provincial parties, which won the presidency for Fernando de la Rúa. Frepaso activist

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was elected Mayor of Buenos Aires in 2000 on the ''Alianza'' ticket - the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education. The alliance was effectively broken the next year, when vice-president Chacho Álvarez resigned amidst public intra-party accusations of bribery in the Senate, followed shortly after by other leading members. After the

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FrePaSo became the joint third largest party in the federal

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, with 17 of 257 deputies. Subsequently the party disintegrated. Many members re-joined the Peronist movement within the centre-left Front for Victory faction of President Néstor Kirchner, with others supporting the

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party of Elisa Carrió. Until 2007 the party nominally retained one

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, who sat as a lone 'Party for Victory' member but in practice supported the Front for Victory, for which she became a national deputy in 2007. Her brother Aníbal Ibarra was removed as Mayor of Buenos Aires in 2006 in the wake of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Front For A Country In Solidarity Defunct political party alliances in Argentina Political parties established in 1994 1994 establishments in Argentina Political parties disestablished in 2001 2001 disestablishments in Argentina

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