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The People's Front (, abbreviated FREPU) was a political coalition in
Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
, formed ahead of the 1985 parliamentary election. FREPU consisted of the
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,
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and a small group of
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ists. FREPU obtained around 350,000 votes.''Un siglo de luchas: historia del movimiento obrero argentino''. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Antídoto, 1988. pp. 315-316


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