Progresistas ( es, Progressives) was a

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political coalition in

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, led by

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. It was composed of

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, the

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, the

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and the Authentic Socialist Party.

was candidate for the presidency of Argentina in the

2015 Argentine general election General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015. A second round of voting between the two leading candidates took place on ...

for the Progresistas ticket. She finished fifth with 2.51% of the vote, not enough to pass the threshold for the run-off. In that election, the coalition's list got only one deputy elected to the Chamber of Deputies (

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). In the 2017 legislative election, the coalition's member parties formed different electoral alliances, and in the resulting composition of the National Congress, the Progresistas group was disbanded.

Members

Progresistas was composed of:

Electoral performance

President

Legisladores

National Deputies

National Senators

References

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