Intransigent Party

The Intransigent Party ( _es. Partido Intransigente) is a political party in Argentina, founded in 1963 by Oscar Alende. Its membership came from the Intransigent Radical Civic Union ("Unión Cívica Radical Intransigente"), one of the two factions into which the Radical Civic Union had divided in 1956.

The party has social democratic ideas and was for a long time allied with Peronism in elections. Alende was presidential candidate in 1963, 1973 and 1983, in all three times without much success.

The party had its most successful period in 1985, becoming the third party. But it fell into oblivion after allying with the Justicialist Party from 1987. The party was part of the FrePaSo coalition from the 1990s and entered government in 1999 as part of the "Alianza" between FrePaSo and the Radical Civic Union that brought Fernando de la Rúa to the presidency. The "Alianza" collapsed in 2001 and FrePaSo effectively disappeared.

For the 2003 Presidential Election, the Intransigent Party was allied to ARI, the party of Elisa Carrió, supporting her for President, and allowing her to be candidate (because her party did not have members in all the provinces). For 2005 legislative elections, the Intransigent Party allied with the Great Front, Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Argentina, forming the coalition called 'Encuentro Amplio'.

In 2007 the Party backed the Front for Victory and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as candidate for President of Argentina.

External links

* [http://www.pi.org.ar/ Official web site]