Union for the Homeland

Union for the Homeland Unión por la Patria
Leaders	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Sergio Massa Juan Grabois
Senate leader	Juliana Di Tullio (UC) José Mayans (FNyP)
Chamber of Deputies leader	Germán Martínez
Founded	14 June 2023 (2023-06-14)
Preceded by	Frente de Todos
Ideology	Peronism[1][2] Left-wing populism[3][4] Factions: Kirchnerism[2] Federal Peronism[5]
Political position	Centre-left[1][6][7][8][A]
Colours	Blue   White   Yellow (Argentine national colours)
Slogan	La patria sos vos. Vamos a defenderla. ("You are the Homeland. Let's defend it.")[9]
Chamber of Deputies	99 / 257
Senate	33 / 72
Governors	7 / 24
Website
porlapatria.org[usurped]
Politics of Argentina Political parties Elections ^ A: A centre-left coalition,[6][7][8] it has also been described as big tent.[10] It is formed by parties ranging from the left to the right.[11] However, a majority is centre-left (Kirchnerism),[12][6] with left-wing,[13] centre-right[14][15] and centrist factions.[16][17]

The Union for the Homeland (Spanish: Unión por la Patria, UP) is a centre-left political and electoral coalition of Peronist political parties in Argentina. It has been the main opposition coalition since December 2023.

The coalition was formed to compete in the 2023 general election,^[18] and is a successor to the previous Frente de Todos coalition, whose candidate in the 2019 presidential election, Alberto Fernández, was successfully elected President of Argentina.^[19] The coalition is centred on the Justicialist Party and its allies both on the federal and provincial levels, including the Renewal Front of Sergio Massa, who was the coalition's candidate for president in the 2023 presidential election.^[20][21]

In the run-up to the 2019 presidential election, the Kirchnerist faction of the Justicialist Party arranged for the establishment of a common Peronist electoral front. This project ultimately materialized with the formation of the Frente de Todos coalition, which comprised the Justicialist majority along with a number of other parties of the political left and centre. This alliance was itself a successor to both the short-lived Citizen's Unity bloc formed for the 2017 midterm elections as well as the Front for Victory, which served as the political instrument of the Kirchnerist political camp between 2003 and 2017. The alliance presented Alberto Fernández as its sole candidate in the 2019 presidential primaries, in which he secured just under 48% of the vote. In the subsequent general election, Fernández again garnered 48% of the vote, against the 40% of incumbent president Mauricio Macri of the Juntos por el Cambio coalition, ousting the sitting administration and returning the Peronists to power after four years in the opposition.^[22] Fernández, along with his vice president, the former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, went on to govern the country for the ensuing four-year period. Halfway through this term, the Frente de Todos coalition suffered a significant defeat in the 2021 Argentine legislative election, losing seats in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, and thereby losing control of Congress for the first time in nearly 40 years.^[23]

In April 2023, President Alberto Fernandez announced that he would not seek re-election in the next presidential election.^[24] In the primary elections in August of that year, Sergio Massa defeated Juan Grabois by a margin of nearly 16 percentage points, although it became the worst result for a ruling Peronist coalition since the PASO was first implemented in 2009.^[21]

In the runoff in November 2023, Libertarian candidate Javier Milei defeated Massa in the second round with 55.65% of the vote, the highest percentage since Argentina's transition to democracy. Massa conceded defeat shortly before the official results were published.^[25][26]

Union for the Homeland is a Peronist^[27] coalition, along with its internal currents, Federal Peronism^[28] and Kirchnerism.^[29] The coalition is considered mostly centre-left.^[30][31][32] However, it also includes communist^[33] factions, left-wing and also right-wing populists;^[34][35] conservative,^[36] Catholic^[37] and progressive parties.^[38] Overall, it is a predominantly centre-left alliance,^[1] with left-wing,^[13] right-wing,^[39] centrist and leftist parties.^[40] Despite it broad character, the coalition has extensive ties with the trade union General Confederation of Labour,^[3] and is considered to be Peronist,^[1][2] and left-wing populist in character.^[3][4] The party's ideology has also been described as labourist and nationalist, in line with Peronism.^[41]