Broad Front (Argentina)

Foundation The party was set up by a group of left-wing Justicialist Party members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, most notably Carlos Álvarez, and other left-wingers who were dissatisfied with the neo-liberal policies of President Carlos Menem, including dissident Christian Democrats led by Carlos Auyero and also figures such as Graciela Fernández Meijide. In 1990, the rebel Justicialists, having formed FredeJuSo, came together with the Communist Party of Argentina and others in a loose coalition. Álvarez proposed forming a unified party and dissolving the constituent members, thus automatically excluding the Communists, who left. The Broad Front was officially created in May 1993, when Álvarez along with other members of the party joined forces with when two minor centre-left parties, Frente por la Democracia y la Justicia Social (FREDEJUSO) and Frente del Sur, a party set up by film-maker Pino Solanas, joined forces to form the Frente Grande. ==Ideology==

The party has a left-wing Peronist background, and was formed by anti-Menemist Peronists, various left-leaning groups and parties such as Intransigent Party, and some members of the Communist Party of Argentina. It has a Peronist-like personalist structure, initially oriented around its long-time leader Carlos Álvarez. According to one of its founders, the human activist Graciela Fernández Meijide, Broad Front has "a moderate and democratic left identity with realistic goals, such as the improvement of wealth distribution, the safeguarding of people’s basic rights and the restoration of the institutional excellence of the Republic". The Broad Front is described as progressive, and presents itself as a leftist and "true Peronist" opposition to the neoliberal economic and social model of its historical adversary, Menemism. Its program has also been described as populist, reformist and progressive, and its policies are considered "closely in line with social democracy". ==Electoral performance==