| | Polity IV Country Report 2003: Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | However, the crisis and political instability was handled through constitutional due process and finally resulted in the election of a new president by a special joint session of congress and provincial governors (the second such election in an eight-day period). |
 | | Given that the Congress, judiciary and regional governorships are all dominated by members of the Peronist party, and that de la Rua was the candidate of a compromise among the opposition Alliance coalition, the power of the executive branch has been reduced in recent years. |
 | | Nevertheless, just as the Peronist Party is plagued by internal factional struggles, the Alliance, which is composed of the middle class-based Radical Civic Union (UCR) and the left-wing Front for a Country in Solidarity (Frepaso), has tenuous institutional foundations at best. |
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