Social and Civic Agreement

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The Social and Civic Agreement (Spanish: Acuerdo Cívico y Social, ACyS) is an active congressional alliance in Argentina, integrated by the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and the Socialist Party (PS), which acted as an umbrella national electoral alliance at the last 2009 Argentine legislative elections.^[1] The Civic Coalition, which was a founder member of the Social and Civic Agreement, left the alliance on 12 August 2010.^[2]

Background

During the 2008 conflicts between the Argentine Government and the agricultural sector, most factions of the parties that would later ally themselves into the ACyS took a strong stance against the National Government's agricultural policy. Previously, at the 2007 presidential elections, the Civic Coalition and the Socialist Party ran on a joint presidential ticket, and - since 2005 - both parties plus the Radical Civic Union make up the Progressive, Civic and Social Front alliance in Santa Fe Province that won the provincial Governorship on 2 September 2007 for socialist Hermes Binner.

2009 legislative elections

The ACyS was composed of the following parties in each Province:^[3]

District	Parties under ACyS umbrella	Foremost candidates	Notes	Results of the 28 June 2009 elections[4]
Buenos Aires Autonomous City	Civic Coalition Radical Civic Union	Alfonso Prat Gay Ricardo Gil Lavedra Elisa Carrió	The Socialist Party went on its own in the district.	19,05% 344.388 votes 3rd place
Buenos Aires Province	Civic Coalition Federal Consensus (ConFe) Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Margarita Stolbizer Ricardo Alfonsín Mario Barbieri		21,48% 1.555.825 votes 3rd place
Catamarca	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Genaro Collantes Oscar Castillo	As the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca governs the Province since 2003.	38,86% 57.499 votes Winner
Córdoba	Civic Coalition New Party (Córdoba) Socialist Party	Luis Juez Norma Morandini Gumersindo Alonso	Under the name Civic Front. The Radical Civic Union of Córdoba went on its own.	27,97% 462.561 votes Winner
Corrientes	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Nito Artaza	Under the name Encounter for Corrientes.	32,75% 141.021 votes 2nd place
Chaco	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Pablo Orsolini Alicia Terada	Under the name Front for Everyone	44,42% 227.006 votes 2nd place
Entre Ríos	Civic Coalition Radical Civic Union	Atilio Benedetti Hilda Ré	Socialist Party went on its own.	35,02% 228.263 votes Winner
Formosa	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Ricardo Buryaile María Inés Delfino		35,75 % 79.366 votes 2nd place
Jujuy	Jujuy Popular Movement Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Mario Fiad	Cambio Jujeño party, identified with Support for an Egalitarian Republic (ARI), went on its own.	30,97% 84.284 votes 2nd place
La Pampa	Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Juan Carlos Marino Ulises Forte	As Civic and Social Front of La Pampa.	35,47% 62.782 votes 2nd place
Mendoza	Civic Coalition Federal Consensus (ConFe) Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Ernesto Sanz Laura Montero	As Federal Civic Front.	48,40 % 414.822 votes Winner
Neuquén	Civic Coalition Socialist Party	Edgardo Kristensen Beatriz Kreitman	As Social and Civic Agreement (ARI-PS). Radical Civic Union of Neuquén went on its own.	5,05% 13.805 votes 6th place
Salta	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Propuesta Salteña Radical Civic Union	Ricardo Gómez Diez		4,86% 23.362 votes 7th place
San Juan	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Rodolfo Colombo		15,07% 47.836 votes 3rd place
San Luis	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Daniel Rodríguez Saá		11,94% 22.948 votes 4th place
Santa Cruz	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	Eduardo Costa	As Change for Growth.	42,54% 53.133 votes Winner
Santa Fe	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Communist Party Democratic Progressive Party Solidarity and Equality	Rubén Giustiniani Alicia Ciciliani Silvia Augsburger	As the Progressive, Civic and Social Front it governs the Province since 2007.	40,60% 662.210 votes 2nd place
Santiago del Estero	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	José Luis Zavalía		11,07% 33.781 votes 3rd place
Tierra del Fuego	Civic Coalition Socialist Party	Leonardo Gorbacz	As Progressive Project. The Radical Civic Union of Tierra del Fuego went on its own.	9,36 % 5.687 votes 5th place
Tucumán	Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union	José Cano Juan Casañas		15,62% 108.469 votes 2nd place

References

1. ^ Ámbito Financiero, El frente de Carrió y la UCR se llamará Acuerdo Cívico y Social, 28 April 2009
2. ^ (Spanish) Con más críticas, Carrió se aleja del Acuerdo Cívico, La Nación
3. ^ For complete candidates lists, copy and paste the entire link: http://www.urgente24.com/index.php?id=ver&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=122458&cHash=cbf2aeeec5
4. ^ Elecciones legislativas de 2009 - Resultados

See also

• Politics of Argentina