Partido Nuevo Triunfo (New Triumph Party) was a small
far-right
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political party in
Argentina
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banned on 17 March 2009 through a ruling by the
Argentine Supreme Court of Justice.
Origins
The party was formed by
Alejandro Biondini in 1990 as the ''Partido Nacionalista de los Trabajadores'' (Nationalist Worker's Party), initially as a breakaway from the
Justicialist Party
The Justicialist Party ( es, Partido Justicialista, ; abbr. PJ) is a major political party in Argentina, and the largest branch within Peronism.
Current president Alberto Fernández belongs to the Justicialist Party (and has, since 2021, served ...
.
['Kalki y las camisas negras'](_blank)
/ref> The party leader anticipated economic crisis in the country which he felt would set up the basis for a takeover by revolutionary nationalism. Biondini is a veteran of the international neo-Nazi scene, having established a group called ''Alerta Nacional'' in 1984, which he described as 'a small part of the great worldwide socialist movement'. This group attempted to form links between the country's various extreme right groups.
Development
The party was re-launched as the New Triumph Party in November 1997, identifying itself as 'the political, militant and electoral expression of Argentine national socialism'. At a time when use of the internet
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by fringe political groups was limited but growing in popularity the New Triumph Party's online publication ''Libertad de Opinión'' (''Freedom of Opinion'') broke new ground in Argentina by providing a regular forum for Argentine neo-Nazism and anti-Semitism
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Antis ...
. Ricardo Brinzoni
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Born in Buenos Aires, Brinzoni entered Military School on 1963, and trained as a paratrooper, q ...
was briefly associated with the group as his lawyer Juan Enrique Torres Bande was a member.
The party has consistently attempted to gain legal recognition but has been rejected. Nonetheless, in the 2005 Argentine legislative election
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Each district elected a number o ...
Biondini's wife and son, members of the party, stood as candidates for ''Acción Ciudadana'', a group headed by Jorge Colotto, the general commissioner of the Policía Federal Argentina
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.
Ideology
The party supports Neo-Nazism and seeks to use Argentina as the new Nazi base. It has been claimed that Biondini believes that Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
had identified Argentina as the future of Nazism
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. He has claimed that in the final days in the ''Führerbunker
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'' Hitler pointed to Argentina on a map and stated that 'from there the new leader will come'.
The party has also been vocal in its criticism of the major political parties and leaders, denouncing Fernando de la Rúa as a puppet of the Zionist Occupation Government
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, a conspiracy theory. As part of this rhetoric it also emphasises its grounding in Christianity
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.
Platform
The ideas of the party have been summed up by them in declaration of policies which states five aims for the Argentine people. These are listed as:
* The reaffirmation of the values of Argentina, based on God and country with a firm stance taken against all who would seek to damage these values.
* Dignity for the Argentine worker, through the establishment of a corporatist
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parliament.
* Defence of national sovereignty
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at all costs, with a systematic programme of rearmament in order to recover the Malvinas Islands (Falkland Islands) and Patagonia.
* The establishment of a purely Argentine economic system which would eliminate usury
Usury () is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an interest rate is ch ...
and unite classes under corporatism.
* A much stricter legal code, including punishments for those it feels have benefitted from Argentina's struggles.
References
External links
Official site
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