The Popular Socialist Party ( es, Partido Socialista Popular) was a

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formed in 1972 with the merger of the Argentine Socialist Party, the '' Movimiento de Acción Popular Argentino'' (MAPA) and other minor groups. Headed by the more radical left group of the Party, it became important in particular in the

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, where

Guillermo Estévez Boero Guillermo Estévez Boero (28 December 1930 – 3 February 2000) was an Argentine student activist, lawyer and Socialist politician. Estévez Boero was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, and studied law at the National University of the Littoral, ...

was elected deputy in 1987, resulting in being the first Socialist parliamentary since

Alfredo Palacios Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios (August 10, 1880 – April 20, 1965) was an Argentine socialist politician. Palacios was born in Buenos Aires, and studied law at University of Buenos Aires, after graduation he became a lawyer and taught at the univer ...

' 1965 death. In 1989, the PSP won the second city of the country, Rosario, with the election of

Héctor Cavallero Héctor Cavallero (2 October 1939 – 2 October 2020), nicknamed ''El Tigre'' ("The Tiger"), was an Argentine politician, who was mayor of Rosario, Santa Fe, and a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Province of Santa Fe. Biogra ...

(1989–1995), and again with the election of

Hermes Binner Hermes Juan Binner (June 5, 1943 − June 26, 2020) was an Argentine physician and a politician. He was Governor of Santa Fe from 2007 to 2011.Carlos Menem and

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, and then founded his own party, Binner became the first Socialist governor of Argentina following the 2007 general elections, being elected in the Province of Santa Fe. The '' Movimiento Nacional Reformista'' (MNR, National Reformist Movement), which is the estudiantine branch of the PSP, has been one of the most representative estudiantine organization since the 1970s, having several times been represented at the presidency or general secretary of the

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(FUA) and of various local federations. The PSP represented Argentina in the

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and the Latin American Socialist Coordination. In 2002, it merged with the Democratic Socialist Party to form the

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