Self-determination and Freedom ( es, Autodeterminación y Libertad, AyL) is a

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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

, with Luis Zamora as its most prominent member. Many of its leading members were part of the

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Movement for Socialism ( es, Movimiento Al Socialismo or MAS) active in the 1980s and one of the more successful of its many splinter groups, the Socialist Workers' Party. Luis Zamora and José Roselli were elected as National Deputies for AyL in the 2001 elections with 10% of the votes in

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, a record for a party of the hard left. Roselli was ejected from the Party the following year. In 2003, the party was particularly successful in the elections to the Buenos Aires city legislature, gaining eight seats. However, all but one, Zamora's then wife Noemí Oliveto, soon defected. Zamora left Congress in 2005.

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Official web site
Socialist parties in Argentina Trotskyist organisations in Argentina {{Argentina-party-stub