Cambiemos
Cambiemos (Spanish: Let’s change) is an Argentine centre-right to centre to centre-left[1][2] [3] political coalition created in 2015. It is composed by the Republican Proposal, the Radical Civic Union, and the Civic Coalition. These three parties respectively nominated Mauricio Macri, Ernesto Sanz, and Elisa Carrió as their representatives in the August 2015 primaries, held to choose which candidates would finally run in the 2015 presidential election on 25 October.[4]
On 9 August 2015, voters selected Mauricio Macri as the candidate who would represent Cambiemos in the presidential election itself. On 22 November, Macri won the presidential election. He was appointed on November 23, 2015.
Creation[edit]
Initially, the precandidates Mauricio Macri, Daniel Scioli and Sergio Massa had a triple tie in the polls for the 2015 presidential election. The other parties created a political coalition, the Broad Front UNEN. Elisa Carrió, leader of the Civic Coalition (CC), left Unen and joined a coalition with Macri's Republican Proposal (PRO) instead. Both of them would run in the primary elections. The Radical Civic Union (UCR) was divided: Ernesto Sanz proposed to join Macri as well, and Julio Cobos proposed to stay in Unen. The party held a convention to decide what to do, and Sanz's proposal prevailed. Thus, the UCR left unen and joined the PRO-CC. The new coalition was named "Cambiemos", as it proposed a change from the 12-years long hegemony of Kirchnerism.
Macri, Sanz and Carrió ran for the primary elections, that Macri won by a wide margin. Mauricio Macri won the elections against the Kirchnerite candidate Daniel Scioli in a ballotage. In lower level districts, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta kept the city of Buenos Aires, and Cornejo and Morales became governors of Mendoza and Jujuy. María Eugenia Vidal defeated Aníbal Fernández and became the governor of the populous Buenos Aires Province, ending the hegemony of Peronism in the province since 1987.
References[edit]
- ^ El desafío que la nueva alianza opositora debe pasar en Diputados
- ^ [http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/07/150720_argentina_elecciones_buenos_aires_macri_men La derecha gana por solo tres puntos la alcaldía de Buenos Aires ]
- ^ Argentina set to shift to the right as Mauricio Macri wins at the polls
- ^ "Las 8 alianzas que competirán en las próximas elecciones" [The 8 alliances that will run in the next elections] (in Spanish). La Nación. June 11, 2015. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
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