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Topic: Peronist Party

	Ruling Peronists are mired in infighting while poverty worsens - The Minnesota Daily
		Analysts say Argentina’s ruling but rudderless Peronists face one their most profound crises since the party’s inception in the 1940s as party bosses engage in a bitter power struggle to be next in line for the presidency.
		Peronist lawmakers are falling into step behind different party factions, including many opposed to President Eduardo Duhalde, a former senator and Peronist party heavyweight who was named caretaker leader by Congress in January.
		Peronist candidates seeking lesser posts in the upper and lower houses of Congress have also tried to distance themselves from Duhalde, making it nearly impossible for the president to corral support for his policies.
	www.mndaily.com /printfriendly.php?id=121&year=2002 (513 words)

	What Would Evita Do?
		The candidates represent opposing sides of a power struggle that was started by their husbands, both of whom are members of the Peronist party.
		Ricardo Lopez Murphy, who heads an opposition party and is running for the same Senate seat as Fernandez Kirchner and Gonzalez Duhalde, told reporters last week that he believes the Peronist party simply wants to flood the ballot with its own people.
		According to national election rules, the victorious party chooses two of the three seats representing the province in the Argentine Senate; the second-place party chooses the third.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/30/AR2005073001050_pf.html (949 words)

	United Press International: Argentina stops debt payments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The mechanics of the transfer of power was the focus of heated debate within the ruling Peronist political party and a sticking point between the Peronists and the opposition Radical Civil Union party and other smaller left wing and some provincial political parties.
		Peronist party officials decided during closed door negotiations late Friday that the party, which holds a majority in the Senate and is the largest minority in the lower house, would appoint Saa as interim president until elections could be held on March 3.
		Juan Peron, military general turned populist leader, founded the Peronist party in the late 1940s as he gathered support from the country's labor unions.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=23122001-092027-9499r (1178 words)

	Left Party
		Parties in opposition to Peronism institutionalized the phrase ‘cabecita negra’ (Blackheads) referring to supporters of Peronism, mostly dark-skinned compared to the more white or light-skinned members of the middle class and the bourgeosie at the time.
		Peronists lost the 1982 elections because of the 'thug image' of its leaders at the time and because these leaders had no record of consistent struggle against the previous military dictatorship and against Britain during the Malvinas war.
		This sector of the Peronist movement had a sizable guerrilla movement, controlled the majority of the countrys universities and was a small but significant force in the trade unions of the 1970s.
	www.leftparty.org /docARGnotes.html (5455 words)

	Buenos Aires Herald
		But the Peronists know that in unity, in a society where consensus is scarce, lies their strength.
		In the 80s, after defeat by the Radical Party in presidential elections, the moribund party was left in the hands of aging union bosses with few ideas.
		Parties with only one contender will not be forced to hold a meaningless election, the governor said.
	www.buenosairesherald.com /columnist/note.jsp?idContent=4296 (2047 words)

	Global Insight // Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On April 27, Argentina’s voters sent a very clear signal to whomever wants to know what they desire: a party that can guarantee some sort of gobernabilidad, which is what Argentines call a political party’s ability to govern their complicated country.
		One of the reasons is, however, the hegemonic ideology that permeates this party: if you are not a Peronist, you are not a true Argentine, and whoever is against Peronism is against Argentina.
		Thus, right now, the Peronist Party has convinced a large majority of Argentines—almost 60% of the voting population—that they are the only guarantors of the country’s institutions, no matter how corrupt the Peronist Party and those institutions may be.
	www.globalinsight.com /Perspective/PerspectiveDetail385.htm (478 words)

	The Militant - 11/10/97 -- Ruling Party Set Back In Argentine Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The ruling Peronist party of Argentine president Carlos Menem was dealt a setback in October 26 elections for half of the seats in the House of Deputies.
		The Peronists - who for decades had held the allegiance of the working class - lost their majority in the lower house of the legislature, with the Alliance electoral coalition winning more than 45 percent of the vote.
		The Alliance is a bloc between the Radical Party, which is the traditional liberal party, and the bourgeois Frepaso party, which is supported by reformist left-wing forces.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/6139/6139_19.html (162 words)

	Argentina Reference Information - Politics and Power - Key Players
		Formerly the governor of the southern province of Santa Cruz the Peronist Party (Peronistas), Kirchner was elected to the Presidency in April 2003 with a weak mandate.
		In June a new political party was founded, the “Alternative for a Republic of Equals” (ARI, Alternativa por una República de Iguales, which is led by current Radical Party (UCR, Unión Cívica Radical) deputy for the Chaco province in the Assembly, Elisa ‘Lilita’ Carrió.
		The new political force is seen as filling the vacuum in the centre-left of the political spectrum left by the departure of former vice president and member of the left-wing Frepaso, Carlos “Chacho” Alvarez, from the national political stage.
	www.latin-focus.com /latinfocus/factsheets/argentina/argfact_pol_players.htm (538 words)

	Argentina's one-week president / As economic crisis worsens, he found no support for reforms
		Indeed, Rodriguez Saa's selection of a Cabinet dominated by party loyalists who have been the focus of a corruption investigation was one of the main complaints of protesters this past weekend.
		Party leaders were clearly irritated at signs he may have been thinking of shedding his interim status by running in an emergency presidential election scheduled for March 3.
		Independent economists and Peronist Party leaders have suggested that the initiative could lead to an immediate burst of inflation, and protesters expressed fear over the weekend that the government might transform their dollar and peso accounts into the new currency, which they view as worthless.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/12/31/MN158656.DTL&type=printable (679 words)

	Argentina - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This was accompanied by the rapid expansion of the city of Buenos Aires and the formation of the Socialist Party and both socialist and anarcho-syndicalist trade unions.
		In the general election of February 1946, which was held in an atmosphere of turbulence and violence, Perón was, in effect, the official candidate, and stood for the presidency as the self-proclaimed champion both of the masses against the plutocracy and of Argentina against the USA.
		The main parties were the UCR, led by Raúl Alfonsín, and the Peronist Justicialist Party (PJ), led by Italo Lúder.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Argentina (3941 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Who is Néstor Kirchner Argentina’s new President?
		Kirchner, who had obtained only 22% of the vote in the first round, is not necessarily bound to be a “weak president”: according to all the polls, he would have obtained between 70 and 78% of the vote in the ballotage.
		True, Néstor Kirchner is from the Peronist party, and was the “official” candidate of President Duhalde.
		Even when he belongs to the Peronist party, his language and style look more like that of the “civilized” progressive politicians of the late 1990s, and his was one of the only voices against Menem’s policies during the 1990s neoliberal euphoria.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2003-05/19adamovsky.cfm (1086 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Justicialist Party split and three PJ candidates stood in the election among a broad field of candidates.
		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.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Arg1.htm (1219 words)

	Narco News: Argentina: The Specter of Menem
		Fed up with mafia-style party politics, the steady deterioration of social conditions and an economic system that has padded the pockets of the rich as it has driven the middle and working classes into poverty, Argentines are read for a change.
		Peronist agendas span from center-left to the far right, and the lines that divide party factions are drawn not by ideas and proposals, but by political and personal allegiances.
		With the Radical Party held in contempt by the vast majority of the population after the disastrous presidency of De la Rua, a Radical who led the now-defunct Alianza coalition, its chances of winning are negligible.
	www.narconews.com /Issue27/article591.html (3298 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - Peronists ride high on apathy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This year, however, the party appears to be irreparably fractured, and for the first time, it will not be unifying behind a single candidate.
		And despite the party’s tarnished image, especially among the middle and upper classes, Peronism is still the primary political beacon for Argentina’s poor and working class.
		Nowhere is the Peronist party’s dominance more evident than in the conurbano, a swathe of urban sprawl sweeping around the centre of Buenos Aires.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=430782003 (1476 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: Interim President Saa Resigns -- Dec. 31, 2001
		After failing to garner support within his own Peronist party and a weekend of anti-government demonstrations, interim President Rodriguez Saa resigned late Sunday after one week in office, becoming the third president to quit in two weeks.
		Peronists, in turn, accused Saa of demonstrating a "selfish, petty attitude" that cost him party support, and admonished the iterim leader for failing to consult with other Peronists before declaring new government initiatives.
		Analysts predict a member from the Peronist party, with its roots in labor unions and protection of domestic industries, will be appointed as Argentina's interim president.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/december01/argentina_12-31.html (771 words)

	In Argentina, leaders' wives evoke Evita - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Latin America/Caribbean - News
		The race has split the Peronist party, which dominates politics more than a half-century after Evita helped her husband, President Juan Peron, define it.
		For politicians outside the Peronist party, the split is not the opportunity it might seem.
		Ricardo Lopez Murphy, who heads an opposition party and who is running for the same Senate seat as Fernandez Kirchner and Gonzalez Duhalde, told reporters last week that he believes the Peronist party simply wants to flood the ballot with its own people.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/08/01/in_argentina_leaders_wives_evoke_evita (634 words)

	MSN Encarta - Argentina
		In 1989 Carlos Menem, the presidential candidate of the Peronist Party, won a landslide election victory.
		Three politicians served briefly as president before the National Congress chose Eduardo Duhalde of the Peronist Party as president in January 2002.
		In the first round, former president Carlos Menem of the Peronist Party finished first but he did not win enough of the vote for an outright victory.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556250_12/Argentina.html (1641 words)

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		The problem is that he lacks a political party machinery of his own that can boost his favourites’ chances.
		But the Peronist party is extremely fragmented and, in practice, little more than a confederation of provincial and local bosses ("caudillos"), of whom Mr Duhalde is the strongest of all.
		The party has suffered major defections, with one centre-left group led by Ms Carrió and her ARI party, and another from the centre-right headed by Ricardo López Murphy and his Recrear party.
	www.viewswire.com /index.asp?layout=display_article&doc_id=1448201544 (1256 words)

	The Political Economy of Power
		As presidential candidates running under traditionally labor-based parties, Carlos Menem of Argentina and Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico were not the logical choice to carry out the liberalization and reform policies that the privatization process entailed in each country.
		In fact, in a 1995 World Bank publication, the role of political parties and agency politics are downplayed to the extent that potential opposition to state-owned enterprise privatization is said to be estimated primarily from the level of state firm over-staffing and the presence of strong labor unions.
		Both the PRI and the Peronist party are traditionally labor-based parties, so inter-agency competition did have the potential to significantly slow and affect the reform process.
	home.earthlink.net /~claymwest/writing/chap4.html (2295 words)

	University of Pennsylvania : Research at Penn : Society :: Argentina's Presidential Race Remains a Five-Way Tossup
		He arranged for the National Peronist Congress to cancel the primary elections of the party, and authorized that all three Peronist candidates -- Menem, Rodríguez Saá and Kirchner -- run in the upcoming presidential elections on behalf of the same party, with each defending his own faction.
		The three Peronist candidates are ahead in the polls of those people who say they will vote.
		He is the most populist of the Peronists and, on occasion, has suggested the possibility of breaking Argentina's ties with the IMF.
	www.upenn.edu /researchatpenn/article.php?640&soc (2680 words)

	Latin American Politics and Society: Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in ...
		Studies of parties in the advanced industrial democracies have tended to overlook this aspect of party organization because of the relatively high levels of routinization that are common in these countries, but routinization varies significantly outside these countries in other regions, such as Latin America.
		Levitsky also suggests that the Peronist adaptation and successes of the 1980s and 1990s were a crucial contribution to the stability of democracy in the country; the situation could have been much worse, as in Venezuela or Peru.
		The research on the Peronist party organization and its changes over the past several decades is first-rate, based on an extensive set of interviews and party elite surveys.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4000/is_200404/ai_n9363861 (1362 words)

	INFOBAE - Las esposas, en el centro de la batalla de poder en Argentina
		For Mr Duhalde, the de facto head of the country's ruling Peronist party, the struggle is about maintaining his grip on his traditional political stronghold, the most populous and richest of Argentina's 24 provinces.
		As a result, a rift in the ruling Peronist party has opened up and seems to be deepening by the day.
		Thanks to a constitutional reform in 1994, the victorious party wins two of the three seats each province is allocated in the national Senate while the second-place party wins the third seat.
	www.infobae.com /notas/nota.php?Idx=195138&IdxSeccion=100421 (803 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: State of Seige Reinstated -- Dec. 21, 2001
		Puerta, from the left-leaning Peronist party, said he expects a special presidential election to be held this March.
		The Peronist party is widely expected to win the election because of the unpopular neoliberal economic policies of De la Rua and the Alianza party.
		Yesterday, the Peronist party, which already holds a majority in the senate and the largest minority in the house, rejected De la Rua's bid to preserve his administration, which effectively forced the president to resign amid thousands of protesters demanding his departure.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/december01/argentina_12-21.html (782 words)

	Frontlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Both parties are responsible for a geometric growth of the foreign debt (now bigger than the national budget) and a complete submission to the dictums of the IMF, the World Bank and big European and US multinationals.
		Communist Party leader Patricio Echegaray stated that on December 19-20, “the party was caught not mounted on its horse.” The MST, possibly the largest of the factions that emerged from the implosion of the MAS and its most social democratic faction, held a National Committee days after December 19-20.
		Their refusal to mobilize their unions was designed to allow the Peronist Party (to which the “Official” is organically linked and the “Rebelde” pays allegiance to) to pick up the pieces of the political regime.
	www.sf-frontlines.com /print.php?sid=27 (3401 words)

	CNN - Anti-Peronist claims victory in Argentina presidential election - October 24, 1999
		Menem, who voted in his native La Rioja Province, had scoffed earlier at campaign polls suggesting his ruling Peronist party was headed for a resounding defeat in the presidential ballot.
		A win for De la Rua means the end 10 years of unbroken Peronist Party rule in the fourth national election since Democracy was restored in 1983.
		Vice President Carlos Ruckauf, a Peronist, and human rights campaigner Graciela Fernandez Meijide, of the Alliance, have fought a bitter battle for the governor's slot, and analysts said the race was too close to call at the finish line.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9910/24/argentina.election.03 (630 words)

	One more President
		Duhalde, a populist, is the second leader from the Peronist Party to become President within a span of two weeks.
		Saa belonged to the Peronist faction that was in favour of free-market policies.
		The two major parties - the Peronists and the Radicals - realised that it was not correct to go to the people when the country was in turmoil.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1903/19030500.htm (1232 words)

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