The Renewal Front (Spanish: Frente Renovador, FR[13]) is a Peronist[14] political party in Argentina led by Sergio Massa, who is part of the centre-left political coalition Union for the Homeland.[15] Massa is a Peronist and said he wants to "build the Peronism of the 21st century".[16][17]

Renewal Front
Frente Renovador
AbbreviationFR
LeaderSergio Massa
PresidentPablo Mirolo
Founded24 June 2013; 10 years ago (2013-06-24)
Split fromJusticialist Party
HeadquartersAv. del Libertador 850, Buenos Aires
Youth wingLa Renovadora
IdeologyPeronism[1]
Federal Peronism[2][3][4][5]
Syncretism[6][7]
Political positionCentre[8][9] to centre-right[10][11][12]
National affiliationUnion for the Homeland
Colors  Blue
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies
11 / 257
Seats in the Senate
0 / 72
Province Governors
1 / 24
Website
frenterenovador.ar

History

It was in opposition against the ruling Front for Victory faction within the Justicialist Party and therefore considered part of the dissident Peronist wing[18] until 2019.

The Front was founded by Sergio Massa, the mayor of Tigre, in 2013, ahead of the Argentine mid-term elections.[19] Massa was chief of the cabinet under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2008 to 2009 and member of the Front for Victory, but broke with the Kirchnerist faction and formed his own political movement.

In the October 2013 mid-term election for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, the party won 43.9% of the votes and 16 of 35 seats in Buenos Aires Province, distancing the Front of Victory by more than 11 percentage points.[20][21]

The Renewal Front demonstrated against a possible reform of the National Constitution to enable a third consecutive term of the then President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.[22]

The Renewal Front held Sergio Massa's candidacy for Presidency within the national coalition for United for a New Alternative. Massa triumphs in the intern against José Manuel de la Sota and is a candidate in the 2015 presidential elections, where he obtained third place and failed to enter the ballotage.

In the 2017 legislative elections, it is grouped together with Generation for a National Encounter, led by Margarita Stolbizer, to form the 1 Country front which promoted the Massa formula for senator and Felipe Solá for deputy.[23]

After discrepancies regarding the direction that space should take in October 2018, Felipe Solá with Facundo Moyano, Daniel Arroyo, Fernando Asencio and Jorge Toboada decided to leave the space, forming another block in congress and definitively breaking with Sergio Massa.[24]

In 2019, the Renewal Front formed the Frente de Todos supporting the presidential formula Alberto FernándezCristina Fernández de Kirchner. The leader of the party, Sergio Massa, ran for the first national deputy candidate for the province of Buenos Aires. Massa became President of the Chamber of Deputies and Mario Meoni became Minister of Transport. In July 2022, Sergio Massa transferred to economy 'superminister', leading a new ministry overseeing economic, manufacturing and agricultural policy.[25]

In the 2023 Argentine general election, Massa was the presidential candidate of the ruling Union for the Homeland. In the runoff, Libertarian candidate Javier Milei defeated Massa with 55.7% of the vote, the highest percentage of the vote since Argentina's transition to democracy. Massa conceded defeat shortly before the official results were published.[26][27]

Electoral performance

President

Election Candidate Coalition First round Second round Result
Votes % Votes %
2015 Sergio Massa United for a New Alternative 5,386,977 21.39 (#3) Lost
2019 Alberto Fernández (PJ) Everyone's Front 12,473,709 48.10 (#1) Won
2023 Sergio Massa Union for the Homeland 9,853,492 36.78 (#1) 11,516,142 44.31 (#2) Lost

See also

References

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  2. ^ Sourtech. "Elecciones de Argentina 2023: del hartazgo al miedo hubo un(a) PASO - El Economista". eleconomista.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Sin Lavagna, el peronismo federal se reúne para avanzar en definiciones". 28 May 2019.
  4. ^ "El peronismo federal busca contener a Lavagna y Massa". 22 May 2019.
  5. ^ "El peronismo federal rechaza la idea de aliarse con el kirchnerismo". 22 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Massa: "La seguridad no es ni de derecha ni de izquierda"". Clarín (in Spanish). 25 July 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  7. ^ "Sergio Massa: "Tenemos los brazos abiertos para peronistas y radicales"". La Nación.
  8. ^ "Sergio Massa, el 'malabarista' candidato oficialista y de oposición a la vez". RFI. 17 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  9. ^ Aramendi, Nicolás (9 September 2014). ""El Frente Renovador va a ser una fuerza de centro"". ON24 (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  10. ^ Lazreg, Nordin; Angel, Alejandro; Saint-Martin, Denis (2021). "Are They All the Same? The Distribution of Personal Wealth Between the Left and the Right in Latin America". Journal of Politics in Latin America. 13 (1): 67–85. doi:10.1177/1866802X20975036. ISSN 1866-802X.
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  13. ^ "Cristina Fernandez defeated in Argentina's main electoral districts; Massa pledges 'end to confrontation'", MercoPress, 12 August 2013
  14. ^ Sergio Massa se reunió con sus aliados para diseñar su estrategia electoral peronista y modernista Archived 28 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine, La Nación, June 24, 2013
  15. ^ "Así quedaron definidas las principales alianzas para competir en las elecciones". La Nación (in Spanish). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  16. ^ "La pelea por el voto peronista | en el Día de la Lealtad, Massa optó por atacar al kirchnerismo". 18 October 2017.
  17. ^ "Vuelve el peronista arrepentido | Mensaje de Massa al PJ para después de octubre". 11 October 2017.
  18. ^ "Massa presenta su partido y se inquietan los intendentes K". www.lapoliticaonline.com.
  19. ^ Confirmado: Sergio Massa será candidato a diputado Archived 2015-09-27 at the Wayback Machine (La Nación)
  20. ^ "Poll setback for Argentine President Cristina Fernandez", BBC News, 28 October 2013
  21. ^ Gilbert, Jonathan (28 October 2013), "Voters, in Midterm Elections, Give New Momentum to the Opposition in Argentina", The New York Times
  22. ^ Massa y sus candidatos firmaron un compromiso contra la reelección Archived 26 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine (La Nación)
  23. ^ "Massa y Stolbizer presentan "1País", el Frente Electoral que armaron el Frente Renovador y el GEN". www.telam.com.ar.
  24. ^ Redacción LA NACION (22 October 2018). "Felipe Solá anunció su alejamiento del Frente Renovador y la creación de un nuevo bloque: "Red x Argentina"". La Nación (in Spanish). ISSN 0325-0946. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  25. ^ "Argentina's lower house leader Massa named economy 'superminister". Reuters. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  26. ^ "Balotaje 2023, en vivo: los resultados y las noticias minuto a minuto de las elecciones". LA NACION (in Spanish). 19 November 2023. Archived from the original on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  27. ^ Tagliabúe, Leonardo (19 November 2023). "Contundente triunfo de Javier Milei: será el próximo presidente de la Argentina". Infobae (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.

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