Alliance for Work, Justice, and Education
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The Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (in Spanish: Alianza para el Trabajo, la Justicia y la Educación), also known as Alliance (in Spanish: Alianza) was a political coalition in Argentina in the early 21st century. It was born from the alliance of the Radical Civic Union, the Front for a Country in Solidarity (FREPASO) and several smaller provincial parties in 1997. Initially center-left, before long conservative sectors took over the coalition. The Alliance disintegrated in the aftermath of the December 2001 riots, with its members returning to their former parties or finding new ones.
Alliance for Work, Justice and Education Alianza para el Trabajo, la Justicia y la Educación | |
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| Abbreviation | ALIANZA |
| Leader | Fernando De la Rúa |
| Party Presidents | Raúl Alfonsín (UCR) Carlos Álvarez (FREPASO) |
| Founded | 4 August 1997 |
| Dissolved | 20 December 2001 |
| Merger of | Radical Civic Union, FREPASO |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires |
| Ideology | Neoliberalism[1] Conservatism[1] Radicalism[1] Republicanism[2] |
| Political position | Centre-right[3] to right-wing[1][4] |
| Regional affiliation | COPPPAL Foro de São Paulo |
| International affiliation | Socialist International (UCR) |
| Colours | Light blue |
| Members | Radical Civic Union Front for a Country in Solidarity |
History
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The Alliance presented itself as a progressive, moderate centre-left alternative to the neoliberal government of Carlos Menem, with a mandate to end corruption and unemployment. In the 1995 elections, the-then President Carlos Menem was re-elected, reaching 49% of the vote. The opposition had presented itself divided into two great forces, FREPASO, an alliance of parties that obtained 29% of the votes, and the Radical Civic Union that obtained 17%. It was evident that together, both forces obtained an adhesion similar to that of the Justicialist Party. The coalition first took part in the 1997 legislative elections in which they emerged victorious against the ruling Justicialist Party. In the 1999 general elections it took Fernando de la Rúa (UCR) to the presidency, together with Carlos Álvarez (FREPASO) as his vice president, defeating, Buenos Aires Governor and former Vice President under Menem Eduardo Duhalde of the Justicialist Party.[5]
However, De la Rúa soon revealed himself as unable or unwilling to tackle corruption and to revive the Argentine economy, which was in a recession, with innovative measures. In 2000, amid a scandal caused by accusations of bribery involving UCR senators and members of the cabinet, Álvarez resigned from the vice presidency, gravely hurting the unity of the Alliance.[6] In the 2001 legislative elections, the Alliance suffered a large defeat winning only 35 seats of the 127 contested seats in the Chamber of Deputies an only 26 seats out of 70 in the Senate The socio-economic situation worsened, and De la Rúa was forced to resign by the December 2001 riots. The Alliance soon disintegrated, its members returning to their former parties or finding new ones.
References
edit- ^ a b c d Zícari, Julian Norberto (2017). "Las coaliciones neoliberales en la Argentina: los casos de la Alianza y Cambiemos". Realidad Económica (in Spanish). ISSN 0325-1926.
- ^ Fair, Hernán (2020). "Néstor Kirchner y Fernando De la Rúa: Transformaciones y continuidades ideológicas desde un análisis comparado del discurso". In C. Leiras, Santiago (ed.). ¿Giro a la izquierda o viraje al centro? (in Spanish). Teseo. ISBN 978-987-723-251-6.
- ^ Feliz, Mariano. Till Death Do Us? Kirchnerism, Neodevelopmentalism and the Struggle for Hegemony un Argentina, 2005-15 (PDF). ww.plutobooks.com.
- ^ Pereyra, Rubén (2019-07-10). "De la Rua, el radical que siempre estaba a la derecha". Informe Político (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ Daniel K. Lewis (15 October 2003). The History of Argentina. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 179–181. ISBN 978-1-4039-6254-6.
- ^ Clarín.com (2000-10-07). "Chacho renunció con críticas y De la Rúa dice que no hay crisis". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-15.