Workers' Left Front – Unity Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores – Unidad | |
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| Abbreviation | FIT-U |
| Leader | Nicolás del Caño |
| Founded | 14 April 2011; 14 years ago (2011-04-14) |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left[11] |
| Colours | Pink |
| Seats in theChamber of Deputies | 5 / 257 |
| Seats in theSenate | 0 / 72 |
TheWorkers' Left Front – Unity (Spanish:Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores – Unidad,FIT-U) is an electoral alliance of fourrevolutionaryTrotskyist parties inArgentina: theWorkers' Party (PO), theSocialist Workers' Party (PTS),Socialist Left (IS), and theWorkers' Socialist Movement (MST).[12] Initially founded in 2011, the alliance added MST in 2019.
After the2023 Argentine general election the FIT-U has five national deputies in theNational Congress of Argentina:Nicolás del Caño (PTS),[13]Christian Castillo (PTS),[14]Myriam Bregman (PTS),[15]Alejandro Vilca (PTS),[16] andRomina Del Plá (PO).
The predecessor of FIT-U was theFrente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores, Anticapitalista y Socialista, which consisted of the PTS, IS andNew Movement for Socialism (NMAS). It stood in the 2009 legislative elections.[17] Attempts to include the PO in this front broke down because the PO insisted on filling the first three positions on the lists with its own members.[17]
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On 12 June, they won a provincial deputy inNeuquén Province with 3.60% of the vote.[18] The post will be held in rotation byAlejandro López,Raúl Godoy (PTS),Angélica Lagunas (IS) andGabriela Suppicich (PO).[19][20] (However the deputies elected in June only took their seats on 10 December 2011, so each of the four sit for a year running from December to December.)[21]
On 24 July, in the town ofCapitán Bermúdez inSanta Fe Province, the PO had a councillor elected, Jorgelina Signa, with 17% of the vote.[22]
On 7 August,Liliana Olivero of IS was re-elected to theCórdoba provincial legislature, this post will be rotated withCintia Frencia (PO) andLaura Vilches (PTS). The list won 3.12% of the vote, this was largely concentrated in the provincial capital where it won 5.45%.
They stoodJorge Altamira of the PO for president andChristian Castillo of the PTS for vice-president on 23 October.[23] On 14 August Altamira and Castillo won 527,237 votes, 2.46%, in a primary election.[24]
On 23 October 2011, they came very close to winning a national deputy in two areas. InBuenos Aires city their vote was only 0.2% short. InBuenos Aires Province their share of the vote would have entitled them to a deputy, but they fell at a second hurdle where they needed to win 3% of the number of voters on the electoral register. The Front mounted a legal challenge to this hurdle, but the courts turned them down.
The Front participated in mobilisations in June 2012.[25] In 2013, it put forward proposals to limit officials' salaries.[26]
The Front contested the election forNeuquén city council on 30 June 2013. It won 5.7% of the vote, around double its vote for this election in 2011, and roughly in line with its vote in the provincial election that year.[27] Soon after it announced its candidates for the national election.[28][29]
At the primary elections on 11 August 2013, the Front won over 900 000 votes, fairly close to doubling its vote compared to 2011. It increased its vote in nearly all provinces, in some provinces picking up a significant vote from virtually nowhere, an exception was Buenos Aires city where its vote was down marginally on 2011.
On 6 October, the PO had a strong performance in provincial primary elections in Salta Province, winning 22% in Salta city.[30]
At themain election on 27 October, they won over a million votes, 5.11%, more than double their vote in 2011. They won three national deputies:Néstor Pitrola (PO) in Buenos Aires Province,Pablo Sebastián López (PO) inSalta andNicolás del Caño (PTS) inMendoza.[31][32][33] There was a challenge to the result in Córdoba Province, whereLiliana Olivero (IS) was the candidate.
They also won three provincial deputies (Cecilia Soria,Martín Dalmau andHéctor Fresina) and a provincial senator (Noelia Barbeito) in Mendoza, and one provincial deputy in each of Buenos Aires City (Marcelo Ramal), Buenos Aires Province (Christian Castillo) andSantiago del Estero (Andrea Ruiz), and five new councillors, all in towns in Mendoza Province.[34][35][36]
On 10 November, the PO had a serious success in provincial elections inSalta Province, winning a provincial senator (Gabriela Cerrano) and four provincial deputies (Julio Quintana,Claudio del Plá,Gabriela Jorge andNorma Colpari) all elected in the provincial capital.[37][38] They also won 17 councilors, including 9 out of the 21 seats on Salta city council, where the PO is now the largest party.[39]
On 29 January, the Front registered its alliance to contest the municipal election inMendoza Province. InMendoza, Argentina the list was headed byMacarena Escudero (PTS), a student, followed by Soledad Sosa and Andrés Elías (both PO). The PO headed the list inSan Carlos, Mendoza.[40][41]
On 30 March, the Front received 13.5% of the vote in Mendoza city, so Macarena Escudero was elected as a councillor.[42]
The Front's first election of 2015 was local primary elections on 22 February in Mendoza. The Front came 2nd with 16% of the vote, and Andrés Elías is predicted to be elected as a city councilor.[43][44]
In April, it won a second provincial deputy in Neuquén. The seats will be held byRaúl Godoy (PTS) and Patricia Jure (PO), to be followed byAngélica Lagunas (IS). It also won a councilor in the town ofAndacollo for the first time.
In June, in Mendoza Province Macarena Escudero was elected as a provincial deputy, andVíctor da Vila was elected as a provincial senator.[45]
In the presidential elections, two formulas competed in the primaries in August: one represented byNicolas del Caño andMyriam Bregman (both from the PTS) against another composed ofJorge Altamira (PO) andJuan Carlos Giordano (IS — Socialist Left). The PTS formula won, with 375,874 votes against 356,977 of the PO+IS one, both adding up to a 3.25% of the total vote.[46] On the main elections in October,Nestor Pitrola was elected as a national deputy for the Buenos Aires province, becoming the fourth Workers' Left Front deputy in the chamber, while the presidential formula headed by Del Caño got 812.530 votes, a 3.23% of the total.[47][circular reference]
After several weeks of meetings, the Workers' Socialist Movement (MST) agreed on June 11, 2019 to join the Front for theOctober general election.[12]
At the2021 Argentine legislative election, the Front had its best performance, winning 5.91% of the vote and four seats in the national Chamber of Deputies (two in Buenos Aires Province, one each in Buenos Aires City andJujuy Province).[48]
In the2023 Argentine general election, the Front won one national deputy.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)As a candidate for national deputy, the university professor and leader of the PTS, Christian Castillo, will be running; José Castillo, an economist and member of the Socialist Left, will be running for the position of Buenos Aires legislator; and the chosen candidate for national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires is Héctor Heberling, leader of the new MAS.
