Popular Dignity Dignidad Popular | |
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| Founder | Ernesto Raúl Habrá |
| Founded | 17 September 2019 (2019-09-17)(Partido Dignidad Popular) 13 October 2022 (2022-10-13)(Dignidad Popular)[1] |
| Dissolved | 10 June 2022 (2022-06-10)[2] (as a registered party) |
| Split from | Justicialist Party |
| Succeeded by | Encuentro Republicano Federal[3] |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires |
| Ideology | Orthodox Peronism[4] Neo-Nazism[5][6][7] Antisemitism[8] Anti-abortion[9] |
| Political position | Far-right[10][11][5] |
| National affiliation | Patriot Front |
| Colours | Red |
 logo used in the 2019 elections in CABA | |
Popular Dignity (Spanish:Dignidad Popular), also known as thePopular Dignity Party (Spanish:Partido Dignidad Popular), is afar-right andneo-Nazi[5] political party founded by Ernesto Raúl Habrá in 2015 to compete in theBuenos Aires Province elections as adistrict party. By 2019, the group would cover several districts, thus becoming a national party.
In 2017, the Popular Dignity Party tried to form a district alliance with thepolitical party of the same style, the Popular Party. The National Electoral Chamber ratified a first instance ruling in which the judge Juan Manuel Culotta confirmed that the measure taken underlined the absence of official minutes and documents, with the respective signatures of party authorities, which would have confirmed their real and active existence. It stopped due to formal defects the payment of 72 million pesos to theFederal Union Front (name that the future front would bear) to finance the printing ofballots for the next Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASSED). Thispolitical coalition was considered as a typical "electoral SME", and had registered 26 lists, 13 for deputies and 13 for senators.[12][13][14]
In 2019, the political group participated in the provincial elections in two districts without an alliance: in the province of Buenos Aires, in which it nominated Santiago Cuneo forgovernor,[15] and in the city ofBuenos Aires where they chose Leonardo Martínez Herrero as the city's head of government.[16] The party failed to qualify for the general elections in any of its districts. In the presidential elections, they joined the far-right and neo-NaziPatriot Front at the national level, and as a candidate nominated theneo-Nazi Alejandro Biondini.[17]
In the2021 Argentine legislative election, the party formed various district alliances, the majority of which wereright-wing. In the province of Buenos Aires, they joined theright-wing libertarian frontAvanza Libertad.[18] In the city of Buenos Aires,[19] as well as in theMendoza Province,[20] they joined the Patriot Front. In theCórdoba Province, they joined the far-rightLa Libertad Avanza.[21] In theCatamarca Province, they joined the governative allianceFrente de Todos.[22] In the Santiago del Estero Province, they joined the Labourist Patriotic Front.[23]
In August 2022, the electoral court disapproved of the expense report made by Avanza Libertad for the printing of ballots for the 2021 elections, following a complaint made by members of the front originally from theDemocratic Party and theUnion of the Democratic Centre accusing members of the party. Thus, the Avanza Libertad alliance was penalized for a total of 18,197,516 pesos for not having been able to duly prove the destination for which state contributions were used in the presentation of the final report of the primary election campaign.[24]
In 2022,Miguel Ángel Pichetto began to form a group and political party ofPeronist origin to compete within theJuntos por el Cambio alliance in the2023 Argentine general election. The Popular Dignity Party decided to merge with theLoyalty and Dignity party to join Pichetto's party, Federal Republican Encounter.