The Front for the Renewal of Social Concord (; FRCS), officially registered as the Party of Social Concord ( es, Partido de la Concordia Social) is a provincial

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

, based in

Misiones Province Misiones (, ''Missions'') is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by Paraguay to the northwest, Brazil to the north, east and south, and Corrientes ...

. It is the largest party within the eponymous Front for the Renewal of Concord alliance. Its purpoted ideological basis is the so-called "Misionerismo", which stands for further autonomy for Misiones. The Front was founded by

Carlos Rovira Carlos Eduardo Rovira (born February 18, 1956) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, until 2007 governor of Misiones Province at the head of the Front for the Renewal of Concord. Rovira was born in Posadas and studied chemical e ...

, who was

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of Misiones from 1999 to 2007. Since then, the three past governors of the province (

Maurice Closs Maurice Fabián 'Mauri' Closs (born 10 June 1971) is an Argentine politician, formerly of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) but now leading the Front for the Renewal of Concord, allied to the Front for Victory in support of President Cristina Fernán ...

from 2007 to 2015, Hugo Passalacqua from 2015 to 2019, and

Oscar Herrera Ahuad Oscar Herrera Ahuad (born 20 August 1971) is an Argentina, Argentine physician and politician who is currently Governor of Misiones Province, governor of Misiones Province, since 10 December 2019. Prior to that, he served as Vice Governor under ...

since 2019) have belonged to the FRCS. It is unrelated to the similarly named

Renewal Front The Renewal Front ( es, Frente Renovador, FR) is a Peronist political party in Argentina led by Sergio Massa, who is part of the Frente de Todos. Massa is a Peronist and said he wants to "build the Peronism of the 21st century." History It w ...

, with which it had a naming dispute in 2013; the Electoral Justice ruled in favor of the Renewal Front.

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