TheHomeland Force (Spanish:Fuerza Patria,FP),[1][2] also known as theUnion for the Homeland (Spanish:Unión por la Patria,UP orUxP) until 2025,[26] is acentre-left[27] toleft-wing[19] political and electoral coalition ofPeronist political parties inArgentina. It has been the main opposition coalition since December 2023.
The coalition was formed to compete in the2023 general election,[28] and is a successor to the previousFrente de Todos coalition, whose candidate in the2019 presidential election,Alberto Fernández, was successfully electedPresident of Argentina.[29] The coalition is centred on theJusticialist Party and its allies both on the federal and provincial levels, including theRenewal Front ofSergio Massa, who was the coalition's unsuccessful candidate for president in the 2023 presidential election.[30][31]
In the run-up to the2019 presidential election, theKirchnerist faction of theJusticialist Party arranged for the establishment of a commonPeronist electoral front. This project ultimately materialized with the formation of theFrente de Todos coalition, which comprised the Justicialist majority along with a number of other parties of the politicalleft andcentre. This alliance was itself a successor to both the short-livedCitizen's Unity bloc formed for the2017 midterm elections as well as theFront for Victory, which served as the political instrument of the Kirchnerist political camp between 2003 and 2017. The alliance presentedAlberto Fernández as its sole candidate in the2019 presidential primaries, in which he secured just under 48% of the vote.
In the subsequent general election, Fernández again garnered 48% of the vote, against the 40% of incumbent presidentMauricio Macri of theJuntos por el Cambio coalition, ousting the sitting administration and returning the Peronists to power after four years in the opposition.[32] Fernández, along with his vice president, the formerPresident of ArgentinaCristina Fernández de Kirchner, went on to govern the country for the ensuing four-year period. Halfway through this term, the Frente de Todos coalition suffered a significant defeat in the2021 Argentine legislative election, losing seats in both theChamber of Deputies and theSenate, and thereby losing control of Congress for the first time in nearly 40 years.[33]
In April 2023, President Alberto Fernandez announced that he would not seek re-election in the nextpresidential election.[34] In theprimary elections in August of that year,Sergio Massa defeatedJuan Grabois by a margin of nearly 16 percentage points, although it became the worst result for a ruling Peronist coalition since the PASO was first implemented in 2009.[31]
In the runoff in November 2023,Libertarian candidateJavier Milei defeated Massa in the second round with 55.65% of the vote, the highest percentage sinceArgentina's transition to democracy. Massa conceded defeat shortly before the official results were published.[35][36]
In July 2025, Union for the Homeland was renamed to Homeland Force (Spanish:Fuerza Patria). The new name was proposed by the leader of the Justicialist Party, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.[37]
In the2025 Buenos Aires provincial election held in September, Fuerza Patria won 47% of the popular vote, while the ruling La Libertad Avanza won 34% of the vote, trailing the Peronist coalition by 13 percentage points. The result was considered a "landslide defeat" for Milei's administration.[38] Fuerza Patria was led by the left-wing[39]Governor of Buenos Aires ProvinceAxel Kicillof in the election,[40] who has been seen as "the new face of Peronism" ever since his victory.[41]
The margin of Fuerza Patria's victory was considered surprising, as the ruling coalition was expected to lose only narrowly. Analysts expected La Libertad Avanza to lose by a few points to the Peronists. Fuerza Patria has since used its power to obstruct Milei's austerity policies and increase social spending. As Buenos Aires makes up over 40% of Argentina's voters, the result was seen as a good omen for the Peronist coalition in the October2025 Argentine legislative election.[42]
Despite the success in the Buenos Aires provincial election, the coalition failed to win the2025 Argentine legislative election, as the party of president Milei, La Libertad Avanza, finished first and won over 40% of the popular vote, beating expectations and polls which anticipated Milei's bloc to win about 30% of the popular vote instead.[43] In turn, Fuerza Patria won about 34% of the vote, finishing as distant second.[44] While La Libertad Avanza massively expanded the number of its seats, the Peronist camp stayed stagnant - the coalition managed to maintain its 98 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (by defending its 46 seats that were up for election),[45] but lost 12 of its senators, reducing its amount of seats in the Senate from 34 to 22.[46]
Fuerza Patria is aPeronist andKirchnerist coalition.[47] The coalition is centre-left to left-wing on the political spectrum,[51][19] with minorFederal Peronist,[52]right-wing,[53]centrist and non-Peronistleftist parties.[54] It includescommunist factions,[54]socialists,[40]left-wing and alsoright-wingpopulists;[57] as well asCatholic,[58] andprogressive parties.[59] It postulates four political banners based on Peronism and Kirchnerism: national sovereignty, social justice, state intervention to fight wealth inequality, and greater integration of Latin American countries against foreign interference.[60]
The party has been described as "left-wing wealth redistributive",[61]labourist and nationalist,[62] as well as economically interventionist and anti-neoliberal.[63] The coalition has extensive ties with the trade unionGeneral Confederation of Labour,[64] and positions itself againstneoliberalism andausterity. The coalition advocatesanti-neoliberal and redistributive policies, along with financial sovereignty based on rejecting theIMF;[65] it considers the IMF to be Argentina's "public enemy".[66] Fuerza Patria is considered Peronist,[68] and left-wing populist in character.[70] The main policy of the coalition is expanding the role of the state in the economy through progressive and redistributive policies to secure the Peronist ideal of social justice.[61]
The coalition strongly favours stronger economic and political ties with China,[71] and denounced the Milei administration's relationship with United States, including the $40 billion bailout agreement with the US presidentDonald Trump, which Union for the Homeland decried as a form of economic dependency.[72] In wake of the2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Fuerza Patria rejected the declaration that accusedNicolás Maduro of committing electoral fraud.[73] All other major Argentine coalitions - theCivic Coalition ARI,Republican Proposal, andLa Libertad Avanza, signed the declaration and declaredEdmundo González Urrutia the legitimate victor.[74] Fuerza Patria also rejects theUNHRC andOAS reports that allege human rights violations in Venezuela andFSLN-led Nicaragua.[75] In October 2025,Jorge Taiana, the coalition's leading candidate for national deputy in theBuenos Aires Province, denied that Venezuela is a dictatorship and argued that it is a "flawed democracy" instead.[76]
In June 2025, the coalition attempted to impeach president Milei for declaringIran the "enemy of Argentina" and for declaring Argentina's support for Israel and the United States.[77] The coalition criticized Israel in theGaza War, denouncing Israeli military occupation ofGaza Strip and calling for Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to be "declared persona non grata" in Argentina.[78] In response to theRusso-Ukrainian War, it declared that it "intends to maintain a normal relationship with Russia".[79]
| Election year | Candidate | First round | Second round | Result | ||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| 2023 | Sergio Massa | 9,853,492 | 36.78 (#1) | 11,598,720 | 44.35 (#2) | Lost |
| Election year | Leader | Votes | % | Seats won | +/– | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Germán Martínez | 9,298,491 | 37.88 | 58 / 130 |  8 | Opposition |
| 2025 | Germán Martínez | 7,741,775 | 33.81 | 47 / 127 |  11 | Opposition |
| Election year | Leader | Votes | % | Seats won | +/– | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | José Mayans | 5,076,244 | 43.72 | 13 / 24 | 4 | Opposition |
| 2025 | José Mayans | 1,911,002 | 36.62 | 9 / 24 | 4 | Opposition |
Allí se llevaron a cabo las negociaciones que permitieron consolidar el armado del nuevo espacio que cambió el nombre de Unión por la Patria a Fuerza Patria.[There, negotiations took place that led to the consolidation of the new political space, which changed its name from Unión por la Patria to Fuerza Patria.]
Far from being a new space, it is simply a front that replaces the name "Unión por la Patria" with "Fuerza Patria", in a new attempt by Kirchnerism to distance itself from the failure of its last administration.
El principal opositor de LLA es el frente peronista Fuerza Patria (FP), que ha ido recortando distancias con Milei en los últimos meses.[LLA's main opponent is the Peronist front Fuerza Patria (FP), which has been closing the gap with Milei in recent months.]
Both agreements were then renewed in 2020 for another three years during the Presidency of Alberto Fernández, the leader of the Union for the Homeland (UxP), which was the new name for the Front for Victory, the left-wing faction of Peronism associated with the Kirchners.
The candidates in the main opposition coalition, United for Change (a conservative centre-right movement), obtained 28% and the current governing coalition Union for the Homeland (Peronist, centre left coalition) 27% of the votes, respectively.
Instead, the sweeping victory of Fuerza Patria, an alliance of Peronists and Kirchnerists, cast doubt on the government's ability to push reforms over the next two years.
The Peronist Fuerza Patria cruised to victory with an ample margin against President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) in Sunday's Buenos Aires province local legislative election, with 47% of the vote, according to preliminary results with over 90% of the vote counted.
This puts him in the lead as an individual candidate, but his party overall is in third place behind the other two big coalitions: Unión por la Patria (the Peronist successor to the Frente de Todos party created by Cristina Kirchner in 2015) and Juntos por el Cambio (the center-right heir to former President Mauricio Macri's party).
Likewise, Management & Fit gives Milei's libertarian party 39.6%, while Peronism, grouped under Fuerza Patria (FP), would reach 34%.
On the other hand, Kirchnerism, now renamed Union for the Fatherland, remains in a crouching position (at times with destitute demonstrations toward Milei) after its terrible four-year government, which ended up leaving the accounts absolutely in red and a burst social structure.
The result also left the pro-government (Kirchnerist) Union for the Fatherland, which, although it did not expect, barring a miracle, to win the PASO, did not expect to come in third – to the point of not entering the October run-off if these positions were repeated – nor to obtain a percentage of votes clearly lower than that predicted by the polls.
Son parti La Libertad Avanza est aujourd'hui au coude-à-coude dans les sondages avec Fuerza Patria, la formation kirchnériste.[His party, La Libertad Avanza, is currently neck and neck in the polls with Fuerza Patria, the Kirchnerist party.]
The decision became known at midnight on Sunday, August 17, when Kirchnerism, under the banner of Fuerza Patria, selected its main candidates in the country's most relevant districts.
Instead, the sweeping victory of Fuerza Patria, an alliance of Peronists and Kirchnerists, cast doubt on the government's ability to push reforms over the next two years.
"Estamos en una situación insólita, otra vez venimos a la carga con la necesidad de dar una respuesta a la universidad pública argentina", abrió el debate la diputada Blanca Osuna, del frente kirchnerista Unión por la Patria.[‘We are in an unusual situation, once again we are faced with the need to respond to the Argentine public university system,’ said Deputy Blanca Osuna, from the Kirchnerist Union for the Fatherland, as she opened the debate.]
Jorge Taiana, the current candidate for national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires for the Kirchnerist front Fuerza Patria, was arrested on June 26, 1975 during the constitutional government of María Estela Martínez de Perón.
Javier Milei, from the La Libertad Avanza party, defeated Sergio Massa, the current Minister of Economy and candidate of the Unión por la Patria party, previously known as Frente de Todos, with a progressive and Peronist tendency.
Secondly, Unión por la Patria, which represents a progressive or center-left sector, is leaning towards a candidate with known links to local and international businessmen and whose political origin is in a right-wing party.
Unión por la Patria, coalición gobernante durante 2019-2023 de tendencia peronista y progresista, presentó como candidato al entonces ministro de Economía, Sergio Massa.[Unión por la Patria, the ruling coalition during 2019-2023 of Peronist and progressive tendency, presented the then Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, as its candidate.]
Mileis Gegenkandidat war der bisherige Wirtschaftsminister Sergio Massa. Er war für das sogenannt progressive peronistisch geführte Bündnis «Unión por la Patria» angetreten.[Milei's opponent was the incumbent Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa. He ran for the so-called progressive Peronist-led alliance ‘Unión por la Patria’.]
Unión por la Patria is a political coalition in Argentina that brings together various parties and Peronist, progressive, and center-left-orientated movements.
La primera de ellas, Unión por la Patria (UP) caracterizada por un conjunto de propuestas progresistas, desde un Estado presente en la defensa de derechos, en la inversión y redistribución de recursos y políticas públicas.[The first of these, Unión por la Patria (UP), is characterised by a set of progressive proposals, ranging from a state that defends rights to investment and redistribution of resources and public policies.]
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of October 2025 (link)To this end, the cases of Apruebo Dignidad (Chile), Pacto Histórico (Colombia), Federação Brasil da Esperança (Brazil) and Unión por la Patria (Argentina) are reviewed, all of them progressive forces that participated in the presidential elections in the period 2021-2023.
Unión por la Patria is ideologically left-wing, like Peronism, they are also interventionist in the economy and totally reject what they call neoliberal ideas.
In recent years, this coalition has been called Frente para la Victoria [Front for Victory], Frente de Todos [Front for Everyone], and the current Unión por la Patria [Union for the Homeland]. […] Despite the heterogeneity, a transcendent Peronist identity allows transversal alliances in certain historical moments. Defining this identity is not easy, but it is generally associated with a redistributive perspective on the State, an anti-neoliberal discourse, the continued expansion of social rights, development policies, financial sovereignty, and the idea that the popular sectors are the identity core of the country.
Con el respaldo de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Axel Kicillof y Sergio Massa, el nuevo frente busca unificar a sindicatos, movimientos sociales y pymes para enfrentar las políticas neoliberales del candidato libertario.[With the backing of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Axel Kicillof and Sergio Massa, the new front seeks to unify trade unions, social movements and SMEs to confront the neoliberal policies of the libertarian candidate.]
In the 2023 general elections, the Partido Justicialista (PJ) formed the coalition Union por la Patria, encompassing parties from nationalist Peronismo to far-left groups. […] In 2019, the coalition, then named Frente de Todos, produced an extensive 33-page platform, though still with a minimal local focus, criticizing the previous government's neoliberalism and neglect of the elderly, while calling for a more inclusive regional approach.
Unión por la Patria se prepara para la defensa contra el neoliberalismo.[Unión por la Patria prepares to defend against neoliberalism.]
Es una construcción contra Milei, contra de la derecha, contra el neoliberalismo.[It is a movement against Milei, against the right wing, against neoliberalism.]
For instance, in January, the nation's largest union, CGT, called for a general strike. The CGT is closely tied to the populist left-wing, Peronist Union por la Patria (Union for the Homeland).
Voters punished Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria, UP), the ruling left-wing populist coalition of President Alberto Fernández, who has presided over a crushing cost-of-living crisis that's left 40% of Argentines in poverty amid 116% inflation.
Mit Nein stimmten vor allem die linkspopulistische Union für das Vaterland (UP, 99 Sitze).[The left-wing populist Union for the Fatherland (UP, 99 seats) was particularly vocal in its opposition.]
Legislators of the moderate center-right PRO largely supported Milei's legislative initiatives (see last columns to the right), while the left-populist Peronist UxP overwhelmingly opposed them.
Argentina's left-populist movement held first place and widened its lead compared to the 2023 elections by two percentage points.
Por un lado, el hasta el 14 de junio de 2023 Frente de Todos (FdT) luego Unión por la Patria (UP), que reúne desde el peronismo conservador hasta los partidos comunistas, pasando por el kirchnerismo como el componente más activo.[On the one hand, until 14 June 2023, the Frente de Todos (FdT), later Unión por la Patria (UP), which brings together conservative Peronism and communist parties, with Kirchnerism as the most active component.]
Es ideológicamente una agrupación que contiene sectores de centro-centroizquierdaizquierda, con variantes progresistas, kirchneristas, peronistas no kirchneristas, socio liberales, Radicales K, y socialistas del siglo XXI.[Ideologically, it is a grouping that includes centre, centre-left, [and] left sectors, with progressive, Kirchnerist, non-Kirchnerist Peronist, socio-liberal, Radical K, and socialism of the 21st century variants.]
The big losers in the primaries were the Peronists, the ruling centre-left 'Union for the Homeland' (Union por la Patria/UP), who gained just 27.3 % of the votes – a historically bad result (compared to 47 % in 2019).
Unión por la Patria, the largest party on the left, shows low support (37%), while 43% of right-leaning La Libertad Avanza supporters show support, indicating that views do not follow a simple left–right divide.
The CGT is closely tied to the populist left-wing, Peronist Union por la Patria (Union for the Homeland).
Both agreements were then renewed in 2020 for another three years during the Presidency of Alberto Fernández, the leader of the Union for the Homeland (UxP), which was the new name for the Front for Victory, the left-wing faction of Peronism associated with the Kirchners.
On the other hand, the Union for the Fatherland, the left-wing main opposition party affiliated with Peronism (the political ideology that succeeded former President Juan Domingo Peron and Nestor Kirchner), holds 45% of the Senate seats.
"We suffered an electoral defeat and we must accept it," Milei said, commenting on the victory of the left-wing coalition Fuerza Patria, which received over 43 percent of the vote.
Although pollsters' percentage vote share projections have remained in a range from the low 30s to the low 40s, LLA's lead has narrowed as support for the leftwing Peronist coalition, known as Fuerza Patria, has increased.
A couple of years after entering institutional politics, with no political party of his own to speak of, he defeated the two coalitions that had been alternating in government and had polarized the country: on the left of the political spectrum, Unión por la Patria-peronismo, and on the right, Juntos por el Cambio.
The Frente de Todos successor Unión por la Patria for the 2023 elections has ties to Kirchnerism but maintains a leftist stance.
"We suffered an electoral defeat, and we must accept it," Milei said, commenting on the victory of the left-wing coalition Fuerza Patria, which garnered over 43 percent of the vote.
The candidates were libertarian populist Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances) and government candidate Sergio Massa of left-wing Unión por la Patria (Union for the Homeland).
Lastly, the ruling left-wing coalition Unión por la Patria (UP) won 27% of the votes, with Economy Minister Sergio Massa obtaining 21%.
Die peronistische Linksallianz „Unión por la patria" kam bei den Vorwahlen auf 27 Prozent.[The Peronist left-wing alliance ‘Unión por la Patria’ won 27 per cent of the vote in the primaries.]
Unión por la Patria is ideologically left-wing, like Peronism, they are also interventionist in the economy and totally reject what they call neoliberal ideas.
The government of Javier Milei has taken advantage of this second invasion of mosquitoes, which has the media and social networks on alert, to attack the leftist Union for the Homeland, the main opposition coalition, which headed the government for the last four years.
In the run-off, outsider Javier Milei of the far-right La Libertad Avanza (LLA) beat Sergio Massa of the governing left-wing Unión por la Patria (UP, a coalition of Peronist parties) by a landslide.
Police used pepper spray to clear a line of demonstrators, sending at least four opposition lawmakers to the hospital, according to the left-wing Peronist party, Unión por la Patria.
Although pollsters' percentage vote share projections have remained in a range from the low 30s to the low 40s, LLA's lead has narrowed as support for the left-wing Peronist coalition, known as Fuerza Patria, has increased.
Although Buenos Aires boasts more developed infrastructure, the governor of that province, Axel Kicillof of the left-wing Peronist Unión por la Patria (UP), is unlikely to support the ratification of the RIGI.
A right-wing libertarian, Javier Milei of the La Libertad Avanza, and the candidate for the governing leftwing Peronist Union por la Patria, Sergio Massa, and their supporters raised the stakes of the election to a fever pitch, arguing that if they were to lose Argentina's democracy would be at risk.
Er lag mit 55,69 Prozent deutlich vor Wirtschaftsminister Massa von der linken Union por la Patria (Union für das Vaterland) mit 44,30 Prozent, wie das Wahlamt des südamerikanischen Landes nach Auszählung fast aller Stimmen am Sonntagabend (Ortszeit) mitteilte.[With 55.69 per cent of the vote, he was well ahead of Economy Minister Massa of the left-wing Union por la Patria (Union for the Fatherland) with 44.30 per cent, according to the South American country's electoral office after almost all votes had been counted on Sunday evening (local time).]
Alguns anos depois de entrar na política institucional, sem nenhum partido político próprio para falar, ele derrotou as duas coalizões que estavam se alternando no governo e polarizavam o país: à esquerda do espectro político, Unión por la Patria-peronismo, e à direita, Juntos por el Cambio.[A few years after entering institutional politics, without a political party of his own to speak of, he defeated the two coalitions that had been alternating in government and polarising the country: on the left of the political spectrum, Unión por la Patria - Peronism, and on the right, Juntos por el Cambio.]
An August survey by consulting firm Analogias shows Peronism's leftist Fuerza Patria leading with 36.9% support compared to La Libertad Avanza's 32.3%.
In elections held 4th, the ruling party took 33.71% of the vote, receiving a devastating report card that trailed the leftist Peronist coalition Fuerza Patria, which recorded 47.28%, by more than 13 percentage points.
Alliance: Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria) – UP – Peronism, centre-left, centrism, Kirchnerism.
Fuerza Patria, anteriormente conocida como Unión por la Patria, es una coalición política argentina de tendencia peronista y progresista.[Fuerza Patria, formerly known as Unión por la Patria, is an Argentine political coalition with Peronist and progressive leanings.]
The candidates in the main opposition coalition, United for Change (a conservative centre-right movement), obtained 28% and the current governing coalition Union for the Homeland (Peronist, centre left coalition) 27% of the votes, respectively.
The big losers in the primaries were the Peronists, the ruling centre-left 'Union for the Homeland' (Union por la Patria/UP), who gained just 27.3 % of the votes – a historically bad result (compared to 47 % in 2019).
Unlike in past years, when political alliances had no real internal competition, this time there are battles for the nominations of the two main groupings: Union for the Homeland, the Peronist centre-left alliance that is currently in government, and Together for Change, the centre-right opposition alliance founded by former president Mauricio Macri.
Just this month, the research firm Nueva Comunicacion found the centre-left political party Fuerza Patria leading Milei's La Libertad Avanza by 15 points ahead of the vote.
The traditional right-of-centre coalition Juntos por el Cambio (Together for Change) earned 28 percent of the vote in the primaries, while the ruling centre-left Peronist coalition, known as Union por la Patria (Union for the Homeland), clinched 27 percent.
Most polls peg the center-right opposition alliance Together for Change (JxC) with a slight edge against the center-left ruling coalition Union for the Homeland (UP).
Milei's strongest competitors are seen as Economy Minister Sergio Massa of the governing left-of-center Union for the Homeland coalition and Patricia Bullrich of the main opposition coalition, the right-of-center United for Change.
The left-wing Peronist political movement — which was going to present two rival candidates — changed its mind in the final 24 hours before the registration deadline. La Unión por la Patria [Union for the Homeland] coalition — a renamed version of the ruling coalition — will offer up a single unity candidate for the October 22 elections: Sergio Massa, the incumbent minister of economy, who is steering the country through troubled financial waters. This decision left a vacuum in the center-left bloc, which has been dominated by the Kirchner family for the past two decades — first by Néstor Kirchner (who governed from 2003 until 2007) and then by his wife, Cristina, who was president from 2007 until 2015.
While Milei's speech couched his successes as wins for the Argentine people, a boycott by members of Argentina's left-leaning opposition Peronist party, Unión por la Patria, left the typically packed legislative chamber half-empty.
In Argentina, at the time of data collection, the centre-left coalition, called Unión por la Patria (UxP) included the long-running Peronist party.
The vote followed a long and heated debate in the lower chamber, with deputies for the main center-left Peronist opposition bloc, Union por la Patria, voicing fierce rejection of Milei's policies while supporters urged them not to obstruct the bill.
The CGT is closely tied to the populist left-wing, Peronist Union por la Patria (Union for the Homeland).
On the other hand, the Union for the Fatherland, the left-wing main opposition party affiliated with Peronism (the political ideology that succeeded former President Juan Domingo Peron and Nestor Kirchner), holds 45% of the Senate seats.
The left-wing governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, has been touted as a future presidential candidate, long ahead of the elections in 2027. He has spoken in favour of the welfare state.
Instead, the sweeping victory of Fuerza Patria, an alliance of Peronists and Kirchnerists, cast doubt on the government's ability to push reforms over the next two years.
Alliance: Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria) – UP – Peronism, centre-left, centrism, Kirchnerism.
The big losers in the primaries were the Peronists, the ruling centre-left 'Union for the Homeland' (Union por la Patria/UP), who gained just 27.3 % of the votes – a historically bad result (compared to 47 % in 2019).
The candidates in the main opposition coalition, United for Change (a conservative centre-right movement), obtained 28% and the current governing coalition Union for the Homeland (Peronist, centre left coalition) 27% of the votes, respectively.
Unión por la Patria is ideologically left-wing, like Peronism, they are also interventionist in the economy and totally reject what they call neoliberal ideas.
For instance, in January, the nation's largest union, CGT, called for a general strike. The CGT is closely tied to the populist left-wing, Peronist Union por la Patria (Union for the Homeland).
Voters punished Union for the Homeland (Unión por la Patria, UP), the ruling left-wing populist coalition of President Alberto Fernández, who has presided over a crushing cost-of-living crisis that's left 40% of Argentines in poverty amid 116% inflation.
In relation to authoritarian governments in the region, they stress that there are specialized forums where Argentina's position is precisely where it votes, namely the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva and the OAS, always expressing its rejection of allegations of violations (the Bachelet report linked to Venezuela) and its rejection of violations in Nicaragua.
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