The Salta Renewal Party ( es, Partido Renovador de Salta; PRS) is a

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provincial

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Salta Province Salta () is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy. To the north it borders Boliv ...

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. The party is a federalist party, believing in strong and renewed provinces with power decentralised from

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. It is a member of the national Recrear electoral alliance led by

Ricardo López Murphy Ricardo Hipólito López Murphy (born 10 August 1951) is an Argentine economist, academic and politician. He served as Minister of Defense and Minister of Economy during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa. His time at the helm of the econom ...

. The party was founded in the 1980s as the country was preparing for a return to democracy. Salta had a tradition of local parties, but the Salta Popular Movement had declined in the 1970s and the national

Radical Civic Union The Radical Civic Union ( es, Unión Cívica Radical, UCR) is a centrist and social-liberal political party in Argentina. It has been ideologically heterogeneous, ranging from social liberalism to social democracy. The UCR is a member of the So ...

(UCR) was not a strong opponent in Salta of the ruling

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. A group of activists formed the Party on 1983-10-30, named by Jorge Folloni. In the first provincial elections after the dictatorship, on 1983-10-30, the Salta Renewal Party received 52,000 votes and third place in the province, gaining 15 members of the provincial legislature. In 1991 Roberto Ulloa was elected governor of Salta for the party, with Víctor Montoya becoming Mayor of the City of Salta on the same day. In the late 1990s the Party took part in the 'Alianza', the alliance principally between the UCR and

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which took

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to the presidency in 1999. With the collapse of de la Rúa's government in 2001, the alliance also split and in 2003, along with several other provincial parties, the Salta Renewal Party joined the Federal Movement of Recrear. Until 2007, the Party had thirteen members of the Salta legislature, two deputies in the

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and one senator in the

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, Ricardo Gómez Diez, who contested the 2003 Argentine presidential elections as the running mate of López Murphy, coming third. In 2007, there was an acrimonious split in the PRS, with Gómez Diez losing the leadership by 48% to 52% to

Andrés Zottos Miguel Andrés Costas Zottos (born 30 December 1961) is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy elected in Salta Province from 2017 to 2021. A member of the localist Salta Renewal Party, Zottos previously served in both houses ...

, then a national deputy. In a similar split as that faced by the other national and provincial parties, the party divided between those who supported the nation policies of

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and those who opposed. Zottos and his supporters favoured the former position and entered into formal pacts with Kirchner's

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(FPV

Zottos stood as the running mate to the FPV's

Juan Manuel Urtubey Juan Manuel Urtubey (born September 6, 1969) is an Argentine politician, lawyer, university professor and former governor of Salta Province. Formerly a senior figure in the ruling Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party (PJ) in the ...

in the contest for the governorship and was duly elected Vice Governor in 2007. Between them the FPV list and the FPV-PRS list won all four national deputies. Gómez Díez helped set up a rival party, the Salta Proposition, but was largely wiped out electorally. Since 2016,

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has been the party's president and leader.

References

External links

Ricardo Gómez Diez official site
Provincial political parties in Argentina Salta Province {{Argentina-party-stub