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Patriotic Front Frente Patriota | |
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| Abbreviation | BV |
| President | Alejandro Biondini [es] |
| Vicepresident | Leonardo Bariani |
| Founded | 14 June 2017 (as an electoral alliance) 27 November 2018 (as a political party) |
| Preceded by | Bandera Vecinal (Local Front) Gente en Acción (People in Action) Partido Nuevo Triunfo (New Triumph Party) |
| Headquarters | Rivadavia Avenue 8811,Buenos Aires |
| Youth wing | Juventud Nacionalista Darwin Passaponti |
| Membership(2020) | 7,817 (2020)[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colors | Light blue white |
| Slogan | Nacionalismo o más de lo mismo (Nationalism or more of the same) |
| Seats in theSenate | 0 / 72 |
| Seats in theChamber of Deputies | 0 / 257 |
| ProvinceGovernors | 0 / 24 |
| Website | |
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Patriot Front (Spanish:Frente Patriota) is afar-right,neofascist,Argentine nationalist political party formed by the fusion of Bandera Vecinal and Gente en Acción parties in 2017, originally starting as apolitical alliance. It has been described as aultranationalist,antisemitic, andmilitarist political party. Its leader isAlejandro Biondini [es], a far-rightperennial candidate politician.
It was officialized by the Court Supreme as apolitical alliance in 2017, after the union of Bandera Vecinal and Gente en Acción. It had a heavy controversy during2017 Argentine legislative election in which the party was criticized because of receiving 20 millionpesos for ballot print, but the National Electoral Council decided to decrease his funds, however the party printed all their ballots and presented their candidates nevertheless. Patriot Front took the case to the Jury and finally, the Court revoked the council's decision in favor of the party. In those elections, they gained 4,100 votes inBuenos Aires, and 28,500 votes in theprovince of Buenos Aires for national deputies and 31,500 for national senators.
The party describes itself as "a party of nationalist men and women united by the same thought and scale of values: the deep love for our Argentina and the firm determination to fight against its internal and external enemies".[10] The party has been described as far-right and that it embracesultranationalist values. It is widely unpopular among the population, mainly because of itsantisemitic and ultranationalist positions, its apologist position towards the military dictatorships of the country, and its support for apatriarchal society.
Patriot Front has an online manifesto. It follows an aggressive foreign policy, which includes good relations with neighbours, annexing theFalkland Islands and severing diplomatic relations with theUnited Kingdom andIsrael. It supports theArgentine Antarctica claim and opposecolonialism. Patriot Front supports restoringconscription.
For the2019 Argentine general election, Patriot Front presented Biondini as a candidate for president and Enrique Venturino as Biondini's running mate for vice president, but during primary vote, it obtained 0.24% and 58,944 of the total voters in the country. Having failed to have 1.5% of the required, it was disqualified from the elections.
In the2023 Argentine general election, Biondini's son César Biondini ran for president under his father's coalition, alongside Mariel Avedaño as his running mate.[11]
