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The Broad Front or FA (in Spanish: Frente Amplio) is an Uruguayan coalition of centre-left political parties and organizations. Frente Amplio is led by Tabaré Vázquez, the current President of Uruguay. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT trade union and the cooperative housing movement.
[edit] History
Frente Amplio was founded as a coalition of more than a dozen fractured leftist parties and movements in 1971. The first president of the front and its first candidate for the presidency of the country was General Líber Seregni. The front was declared illegal during 1973 military coup d'état of and emerged again in 1984 when democracy was restored in Uruguay.
In 1994 Progressive Encounter (Encuentro Progresista) was formed by split-offs from the National Party and Colorado Party, as well by groups who had left FA. EP and FA started contesting elections jointly under the name Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio. Later another force, Nuevo Espacio, became linked to the front. Thus it started contesting elections as Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio - Nueva Mayoria.
In 2005 member organizations of Progressive Encounter and New Majority (essentially Nuevo Espacio) merged into the front, and the coalition was renamed Frente Amplio. Previously, EP and later NM had been allied with FA but organizationally separate structures.
At the 2004 general election, the party won 51.4% of the popular vote and 52 out of 99 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 17 out of 31 in the Senate, making its presidential candidate, Tabaré Vázquez, win the same day.
The alliance is - as far as available - formed by:
[edit] 2004 electoral strength
[edit] Results in the 2004 internal elections
In 2004 the first internal elections for EP-FA-NM was held. Previously elections had only been held within FA.
| List |
Party |
Votes |
% |
| 609 |
|
148,426 |
33.18 |
| 90 |
| Espacio 90 |
| Partido Socialista |
| Movimiento Socialista Emilio Frugoni |
| Partido por la Seguridad Social |
| Acción Renovadora |
|
|
79,090 |
17.68 |
| 2121 |
|
40,741 |
9.11 |
| 738 |
|
37,628 |
8.41 |
| 77 |
|
34,536 |
7.72 |
| 99000 |
|
30,762 |
6.88 |
| 1001 |
|
26,569 |
5.94 |
| 326 |
|
12,175 |
2.72 |
| 1303 |
|
8,776 |
1.96 |
| 1813 |
| Liga Federal Frenteamplista |
|
7,425 |
1.66 |
| 5271 |
| Corriente de Izquierda |
| Tendencia Marxista |
| Alternativa Popular 1815 - Espacio Solidario |
| Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores-CI |
| Unión Popular |
|
|
5,233 |
1.17 |
| 567 |
|
2,664 |
0.64 |
| 9393 |
| Corriente de Unidad Frenteamplista |
|
2,354 |
0.53 |
| 1968 |
| Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores-IV Internacional |
|
387 |
0.09 |
| 871 |
| Partido Obrero Revolucionario (Trotskista-Posadista) |
|
371 |
0.08 |
| 5205 |
|
198 |
0.04 |
| 11815 |
|
86 |
0.02 |
| 2571 |
| Agrupación 5 de Febrero de 1971 |
|
23 |
0.01 |
|
|
447,313 |
|
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