Civic Coalition (Argentina)
Civic Coalition Coalición Cívica | |
|---|---|
Centre[6] | |
| Colors | Light blue and Green |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies | 5 / 257
|
| Seats in the Senate | 1 / 72
|
| Website | |
| http://www.coalicioncivica.org.ar/ | |
The Civic Coalition (in Spanish, Coalición Cívica) was a political
ARI party), as well as a number of other political groups and individual political leaders, notably UPT - Union for All of Patricia Bullrich and GEN - Generation for a National Encounter of Margarita Stolbizer
.
Carrió ran for presidency on the
upper classes
.
Carrió aroused a wave of murmurs by differentiating what he promised to be his
Armed Forces."[7]
History
Leading figures of the Coalition, as well as Carrió, Bullrich and Stolbizer, include
Alfonso Prat Gay, former head of the Central Bank, and Senators María Eugenia Estenssoro and Samuel Cabanchik. The embrace by Carrió of these centrist figures proved controversial among more left-wing members of ARI and some national legislators declined to join the new expanded Civic Coalition grouping in Congress following the 2007 elections and instead formed a separate block called the Autonomous ARI. In May 2008, the block, led by Eduardo Macaluse, announced that they were forming a new party, Solidarity and Equality (Solidaridad e Igualdad - SI). Others who left ARI were Carlos Raimundi, Leonardo Gorbacz, Delia Bisutti, Nelida Belous, Verónica Venas, Emilio García Méndez, Lidia Naim and María América González.[8] Senator María Rosa Díaz also appeared at the launch of SI.[9]
Several of the legislators who created the new party had won their seats in the 2007 election as part of the Civic Coalition, which they later opposed.
The ARI deputies from Tierra del Fuego sit with the SI members in a separate block in the Chamber of Deputies. Subsequently Senators María Rosa Díaz and José Carlos Martínez left ARI altogether in March 2009.[10][11]
Since 2009, the coalition refounded itself as a party, called Civic and Social Agreement (ACyS), although the actual situation of it varies in each district.
The Civic Coalition left the Civic and Social Agreement on 12 August 2010.[12]
Coalition members
| Party | Leader | Ideology | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civic Coalition ARI | Elisa Carrió | Social liberalism | Centre | |
| Socialist Party | Rubén Giustiniani | Social democracy, Democratic socialism | Centre-left
| |
| Open Policy for Social Integrity | José Octavio Bordón | Peronism, Social democracy | Centre | |
| Radical Civic Union (Faction) | Ernesto Sanz | Social democracy, Social liberalism | Centre | |
| Freedom Union | Patricia Bullrich | Conservative liberalism | Right Wing
| |
Former members
| Party | Leader | Ideology | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generation for a National Encounter | Margarita Stolbizer | Social democracy | Centre-left | |
References
- ^ "¿Qué es la Coalición Cívica?" Archived 2012-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, sitio oficial de la Coalición Cívica.
- ^ "El ala izquierda de la CC presiona a Carrió". 5 November 2007.
- ^ "¿Nace un partido liberal progresista en la Argentina?. Por Gabriel C. Salvia".
- ^ "Se fractura coalición de Carrió - Internacionales - ABC Color".
- ^ "El ala izquierda de la CC presiona a Carrió". 5 November 2007.
- ^ "El ala izquierda de la CC presiona a Carrió". 5 November 2007.
- ^ "Carrió llevó a EE.UU. Su denuncia de fraude". 20 September 2007.
- ^ El ARI Autónomo mutó a Solidaridad e Igualdad SI, parlamentario.com, 18 May 2008.
- Página/12, 18 May 2008.
- Telamnews agency, 25 March 2009.
- ^ Senate votes today on early election Archived 2009-07-05 at the Wayback Machine, Buenos Aires Herald, 26 March 2009.
- ^ Con más críticas, Carrió se aleja del Acuerdo Cívico, La Nación (in Spanish)