Argentina Legislative Election 2017

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Legislative elections will be held in Argentina on 22 October 2017.
The election is held in "two" rounds: the PASO (August 13) and the actual election

In he PASO (Simultaneous and mandatory open primaries) all parties run primary elections in a single election. All parties must take part in it, both the parties with internal factions and parties with a single candidate list. Citizens may vote for any candidate of any party.

Parties must also get 1.5% or higher of the vote in the district they're running in  to be allowed to run in the main elections

In this election we'll vote for 127 out of 257 Deputies (Representatives) , from all provinces (and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires), and  24 out of  72 Senators, representing 8 provinces

Deputies are voted by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method in a closed list with a 3% threshold, each province voted for their own deputies.



Senators from one province are all elected at the same time and the allocation is: 2 for the largest party and 1 for the second largest

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Buenos Aires Province is by far the most important province voting in this election, as it gets 27% of all deputies voted in this election
Despite the Province's traditional Peronist leanings, it has recently turned into a closer district.


Senator candidates:

Frente para la Victoria:

-Cristina Kirchner, the former president hasn't formally announced her intention to run, but it's for all purposes an open secret, and has been endorsed by several mayors who think she should be a "unity candidate" for the FPV and that the primaries should be avoided

-Florencio Randazzo, who is seen as one of the most honest and efficient ministers in Cristina's cabinet .He tried to run for President in 2017, but he was rejected by the majority of the FPV's politicians. He may be sharing the list  with former President of the Chamber of Deputies and failed 2015 pre-candidate for governor Julian Dominguez His main endorsement is former Chief of cabinet Alberto Fernández , who recently distanced himself from Massa

Cambiemos
No candidates so far as Lilita Carrió and Jorge Macri have rejected this candidacy, and Facundo Manes has been demoted to the first candidate in the deputy on Cambiemos' ballot

Frente para la Victoria+GEN
-Sergio Massa+Margarita Stolbizer . An unusual alliance between Massa's Frente Renovador (a moderate populist party without s strong ideology) and Stolbizer (a progressing) and her allies

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Dear God, nobody needs Kirchner back in politics.

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Buenos Aires City votes only for Deputies and is Macro's strongest district.

Cambiemos:
The formula will be led by Elisa "Lilita" Carrió, who will be renewing her seat. She has a long political career (running unsuccessfully for the presidency in all elections since 2003)  for the presidency in is seen as one of the country's most honest politicians and comes from a myriad of progressive parties and often distances herself from Macri despite being in the same alliance

ECO
The non-kirchnerista center-left coalition in the City is led by Martin Loustau, Minister if Economy (2007-2008) under Cristina, he resigned in opposition to the counter-revolution measures regard inflation and the general unpleasantness of secretary of commerce (a lower ranked possition) Guillermo Moreno and allied himself with Carrió, with whom he was in the 2013 legislative elections. He ran in 2015 for the position of Mayor of the City, and got second place behing Cambiemos/Pro's Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, and was named by Macri as ambassador to the US (in a , a "kicked upstairs" fashion)  from which he recently resigned. he'll be running a very Trudeauvian campaign (update: he has made the fact that Cambiemos gets free advertisiing from the City government his campaign central reason, for some odd reason)

Frente Para la Victoria
The main formulas within the kirchnerista block may be those of Daniel Filmus and Juan Cabandie, the district has generally been a bad one for the kirchneristas and peronismo in general.

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Dear God, nobody needs Kirchner back in politics.

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Buenos Aires Province is by far the most important province voting in this election, as it gets 27% of all deputies voted in this election
Despite the Province's traditional Peronist leanings, it has recently turned into a closer district.


Senator candidates:

Frente para la Victoria:

-Cristina Kirchner, the former president hasn't formally announced her intention to run, but it's for all purposes an open secret, and has been endorsed by several mayors who think she should be a "unity candidate" for the FPV and that the primaries should be avoided

-Florencio Randazzo, who is seen as one of the most honest and efficient ministers in Cristina's cabinet . He tried to run for President in 2017, but he was rejected by the majority of the FPV's politicians. He may be sharing the list with former President of the Chamber of Deputies and failed 2015 pre-candidate for governor Julian Dominguez His main endorsement is former Chief of cabinet
Alberto Fernández who recently distanced himself from Massa

Cambiemos
No candidates so far as Lilita Carrió and Jorge Macri have rejected this candidacy, and Facundo Manes has been demoted to the first candidate in the deputy on Cambiemos' ballot

Frente para la Victoria+GEN
-Sergio Massa+Margarita Stolbizer . An unusual alliance between Massa's Frente Renovador (a moderate populist party without s strong ideology) and Stolbizer (a progressing) and her allies

Candidates for Deputies:

-FPV:

We  need to remember that senatorial election rule is that 1st placed list gets 2 seats and 2nd most voted list gets 1 seat, independently of results.

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It's very strange to see an alliance between Massa and Stolbizer. I don't know too much about Argentinian politics but I have a feeling that Massa is still lost and confused after being unabled to became the leader of Macri's opposition.

Could this mean the end of Peronism as we know it or is just a politician trying to save his career?


Also what about the PTS? I remember Nicolas del Caño, I liked him.

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It's very strange to see an alliance between Massa and Stolbizer. I don't know too much about Argentinian politics but I have a feeling that Massa is still lost and confused after being unabled to became the leader of Macri's opposition.

Could this mean the end of Peronism as we know it or is just a politician trying to save his career?


Also what about the PTS? I remember Nicolas del Caño, I liked him.

Both Massa and Stolbizer are confused, as Stolbizer decided to run for president and got an awful 2.5% when she could've gotten a decent result had she ran in the Province

Option 1

The FIT isn't going through a great moment, after the PTS got closer to the kirchneristas a few months ago and there's a lot of distrust between the Partido Obrero and PTS. I don't know how much this will affect the candidacies in each province, but I think they'll compete in the primaries under a single coalition

[Velasco]

It's very strange to see an alliance between Massa and Stolbizer. I don't know too much about Argentinian politics but I have a feeling that Massa is still lost and confused after being unabled to became the leader of Macri's opposition.

Could this mean the end of Peronism as we know it or is just a politician trying to save his career?

Sergio Massa came a strong third (21.4%) in the first round of the 2015 presidential election. The Federal UNA (featuring Frente Renovador and De la Sota's Union for Córdoba) is the third largest block in the Chamber of Deputies (37 seats).

Margarita Stolbizer came in fifth place with only 2.5% of the vote. Her result in Buenos Aires province was also poor. The centre-left non-peronist alliance (Progresistas) got a similarly terrible result in the legislative elections, winning a single seat (Victoria Donda in Buenos Aires City) when it was defending 12 seats won in 2011. That alliance is not going to run in this legislative election and its different parties (Socialists, GEN, Libres del Sur) will try to make alliances with other blocks at provincial level.

Thus it's not so strange that in order to survive Margarita Stolbizer makes an alliance with Sergio Massa in Buenos Aires Province. Stolbizer is anti-Kirchner and the Macri's Cambiemos alliance is too right-leaning for her. Despite his ambiguity and opportunism, Sergio Massa represents a certain third way between Macri and the Kirchner clan. There are no more options left.

It's good news that Lousteau runs in a centre-left front in Buenos Aires city.

On the other hand, I think that the alliance between the Socialist Party and the UCR in Santa Fe province will be broken in this election. The Civic Radical Union might join Cambiemos thus the PS will have a tough match in its traditional stronghold. The province is governed by the Civic and Social Front (FPCS: PS+UCR) since 2007.

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Yes, the Frente Progresista (PS, a small part of the UCR and their barely relevant allies) will run on its own and the Santafecina UCR will be a part of Cambiemos, the Peronistas will run on a unified list

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In this election we'll vote for 127 out of 257 Deputies (Representatives) , from all provinces (and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires), and  24 out of  72 Senators, representing 8 provinces

I may never have seen a political map of Argentina by itself. Buenos Aires is quite near the north-south center of the country. I was trying to figure out why all the provinces up by Paraguay had so few deputies, or whether there was an inset map for Buenos Aires.

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Could someone give a brief explanation of the Argentine party system?

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Could someone give a brief explanation of the Argentine party system?

There are two main alliances:
Cambiemos, the ruling coalition, an alliance between :
  -Pro, a Buenos Aires City-centered center-right party
  -and the UCR (or Radicales) a vaguely center-left to center-right centenarian "party" (the UCR works closer to a loose alliance of provincial parties than as an actual party). The UCR was traditionally one of the two big parties, but their role diminished significantly after​ the disaster that was the De La Rúa administration

Frente Para la Victoria, the ruling coalition between 2003  and 2015, a left wing peronista alliance between a usually center left national party and a bajillion of local and provincial parties. Generally left leaning on social issues and interventionist/populist on the economy.

There's also the UNA, an alliance led by Sergio Massa and Jose Manuel de la Sota, two very important non-kirchnerist politicians in two very important provinces (Buenos Aires Province and Córdoba). Massa is running on an interventionist platform on economic issues with a slight law-and-order bent



There are a lot of provincial parties that are usually more or less allied with the big three, and a few other small nation wide parties

[Velasco]

Could someone give a brief explanation of the Argentine party system?

Possibly knowing the current composition of the two chambers -and the size of their parliamentary blocks- can be helpful.

Chamber of Deputies (257 seats)

Cambiemos 87 seats
Parties: PRO (42), UCR (36), Civic Coalition (6), Others (4). Centre-right / Non-Peronist

Front for Victory 72 seats
Centre-left / Peronist

Federal UNA block 37 seats

Parties: Renewal Front (23), De la Sota crew (6), Others and provincial parties, including Neuquén People's Movement ( 8 ). Centre-right / Peronist

Justicialist block 17 seats

FPV split. Peronist.

Progressives 8 seats

Parties; Socialist (4), Free of the South Movement (3), GEN (1). Centre-left / Non Peronist

Civic Front for Santiago 6 seats

Provincial party of Santiago del Estero usually allied with the Kirchners (FPV)

Peronism for Victory 6 seats

It looks like another FPV split

United for Argentina 5 seats

Another peronist faction led by Darío Giustozzi, Mayor of Almirante Brown in Meropolitan Buenos Aires until 2013. That year Giustozzi was elected deputy in the Sergio Massa list (Frente Renovador), He switched later to the FPV and stood as pre-candidate for Mayor of Almirante Brown again, losing the primary election.

Compromiso Federal 3 seats

The Rodríguez Saá clan from San Luis province. Centre-right / Peronist

Workers' Left Front 3 seats

Trotskyst. Hard Left

Frente de la Concordia Misionero 3 seats

Provincial party of Misiones usually allied with the Kirchners

Others 10 seats

Mix of provincial, left-wing microparties and one-man bands

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1mara_de_Diputados_de_la_Naci%C3%B3n_Argentina


Senate (72 seats)

Justicialist-Front for Victory 36 seats

Cambiemos 17 seats

UNA 3 seats

Others and provincial 16 seats

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senado_de_la_Naci%C3%B3n_Argentina

I made a map of the first round of the 2015 presidential election. Since its size is too big to be uploaded to my gallery and Imgur doesn't work here, you can take a look through this link below:

https://saintbrendansisland.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/argentina-2015-primera-vuelta/

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Isn't Front for Victory technically a faction within the Justicialists?

[Velasco]

Isn't Front for Victory technically a faction within the Justicialists?

Yes, it is. The block in the Senate is actually called PJ-FPV. I edited the post and changed that, as well added something about the Darío Giustozzi block in the Chamber of Deputies.

Deciphering where the different Peronist factions stand can be a terrible mess. Also, the word "Justicialist" can be used by "officialist" and "dissident" factions. For instance, the "Justicialist block" in the Chamber of Deputies is made up by several members who left the FPV block in February 2016. In the Senate the term is used by the "official" Justicialist-Front for Victory block, but there are two provincial Justicialist blocks: PJ-La Pampa and PJ-San Luis (2 seats each).

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Isn't Front for Victory technically a faction within the Justicialists?

Technically, the Partido Justicialista is a member of the FPV coalition.
Despite this a lot of provincial and local "dissident peronistas" still identify as members of the PJ despite the national party's leanings, and some still control the official provincial party (this is mainly the case of San Luis, Cordoba,

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The period for presenting the alliances ended between yesterday and tomorrow morning, depending on the province

Buenos Aires Province (votes for 3 senators and 35 Deputies)

All the candidates I'll mention in the section for BA Province are running for Senator, unless otherwise specified
The FPV's cristinista wing decided not to participate in the primaries and there will be two independent coalitions, and they'll run outside of the official PJ structure. The faction lead by Cristina still hopes for a unity list (there's time until June 25 for nominating the  pre-cantidates), but the two egos are too large

•Unidad Ciudadana , the establishment kirchnerista list, led (presumably) in the Senate race by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (who hasn't yet formally announced her intention to run) and Jorge Tatiana, foreign affairs minister (2005-2010).Formed by Nuevo Encuentro (a Progressive kirchnerista party), Kolina (a small kirchnerista party / group with links to Alicia Kirchner -Cristina's sister in law), Partido de la Victoria (barely a party), Frente Grande (an important anti-Menem alliance in the mid-to-late 90s, now it's largely irrelevant) and Compromiso Federal (nationally led by dissident [non kirchnerista] Peronist and governor of San Luis  Alberto Rodríguez Saá)

•Frente Justicialista, the other Kirchnerista Coalition. Formed by the Partido Justicialista (i.e. the Peronist Party) -but without any real support from most PJ/FPV mayors-, and a bunch of small irrelevant and unknown parties.
            -One list for the primaries will be led by Florencio Randazzo, another by some random dude who works for Ishii (Ishi is a mayor of a Grand Buenos Aires county, who likes running in primaries where he has no chance of winning), and there may be a third one with kind to infamous former secretary of commerce Guillermo Moreno (Moreno allied with Ishii at the very last minute)

•Cambiemos, formed by Pro (Macri's party), UCR,  CC-ARI (Carrió), FE (a small dissident Peronist party led by a recently deceased labor union leader) Unión por Todos (the party of Security Minister Patricia Bullrich), and several small parties . Still without having decided on their senatorial candidates, their first senator will be national Education Minister Esteban Bullrich

•1País. The Massa-Stolbizer (who will both run in one list for the Senate race) alliance, formed by Massa's Frente Renovador, two progressive parties (whoare not a formal part of the coalition), Stolbizer's GEN, Libres del Sur, Hugo Moyano's (the largest labor union leader in the whole country) Partido de la Cultura, la Educación (also not an official member), Trabajo and Movimiento de Integración y Desarrollo (an old, and now irrelevant, spin-off of the UCR), and Tercera Posición (not a Neo Nazi party, it's referring to Person's possition)

The following parties have no chance at all of getting a seat in the Senate and are mainly striving for  deputies

• Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores (FIT), a left wing alliance betweenPartido Obrero, PTS and Izquierda al Socialismo. Néstor Pitrola (PO) for senator and Nicolás Del Caño (PTS) for deputy
•Izquierda al Frente por el socialismo, the other historical left wing alliance ,MST-Nuevo MAS. Vilma Ripoll for senator and Manuela Castañeira for Deputy
•Encuentro Popular por Tierra, Techo y Trabajo, Partido Comunista (FPV with a slightly different retoric) and MILES, led by controversial (to say the least) Kirchnerista piquetero Leader Luis D'Elia, he's supporting Cristina in the Senate race
•Frente Social y Popular, formed by Partido Socialista and Victor De Gennaro's Frente Popular (a center left party), running for the fist time in a long time with their usual allies (GEN and Libres), and the left wing piquetero group Corriente Clasista y Combativa
•Creo, Proyecto Sur (a Center left to left wing party based in BA City, led by film director, former candidate for mayor of BA, which he now represents as a Senator, Pino Solanas) and allies of labor union leader Pablo Micheli
•Frente Unión Federal, a coalition of two small Peronist parties
•Patria Grande - Vamos, a coalition of small left wing parties, Marea Popular and Patria Grande,  Allied with the kirchneristas, only running from Deputies
•Frente Unión por la Justicia Social, formed by non-kirchnerista Peronist parties Celeste y Blanco (the party that ran De Narvaez's campaign in 2011) and Propuesta Federal para el Cambio (an old name of Pro's wing in the Province)
•Frente Patriota Bandera Vecinal, far right, with six lists for senators and party leader Biondini in the party's only list for Deputies
•Partido Federal, with 4 lists for the primaries
•Movimiento Organización Democrática - MODE
•Todos Por Buenos Aires, I think it's a right wing Peronista party with some Christian populist ideas
•Movimiento Amplio de Trabajadores y Jubilados
•Partido del Campo Popular, Biondini's old party
•Partido Humanista

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Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
(13 Deputies)
•Vamos Juntos, It's Cambiemos under a new name, formed by Pro, Coalición Civica (Carrió), Confianza Pública (Graciela Ocaña), Unión por la Libertad, PDP, FE, Partido Demócrata, and the UCeDé (a neoliberal party from the 1980s and 90s). Led by Elisa "Lilita" Carrió, in an attempt to get votes that would otherwise go to Lousteau
•Evolución Ciudadana, led by Martin Lousteau, formed by the UCR (which is running with Cambiemos in most provinces) and the (social democratic) Partido Socialista
•Unidad Porteña, the Kirchnerista Coalition in the city, it may run severalwill run three internal lists in the primaries:
              -kirchneristas
             -non-kirchnerista Peronistas (who have no real presence in the                     city
              -an alliance between Gustavo Vera, the leader of an anti-prostitution NGO and someone with close links to Pope Francis, and controversial kircherista secretary of commerce Guillermo Moreno, Moreno will try as the alliance's first Deputy
             -Itai Hangman's Patria Grande, a left wing party with links to the kirchneristas

•Un Pais, formed by Frente Renovador, GEN and Libres del Sur, will run a list led by economist Matías Tombolini and  Mirta Tundis (Frente Renovador deputy for BA Province)

• Frente de Izquierda de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (FIT), PO, MST and IS will run an unity list with Marcelo Ramal (PO) as its first deputy candidate
• Autodeterminacion y Libertad, a left wing party, based in the city, led by former deputy Luis Zamora
•Izquierda al frente por el socialismo, MST-MAS,  it will run Alejandro Bidart  as its first candidate
•Convocatoria Abierta por Buenos Aires, a small center left to left wing alliance led by Claudio Lozano (an ally of De Gennaro), IE Unidad Popular and MP La Dignidad
•Proyecto Sur / Sur en Marcha, Proyecto Sur
•Partido Humanista
Partido Federal, with two lists
Bandera Vecinal
Partido Socialista Auténtico
Partido Renovador Federal, it's Deputies list is led by d by former football player José Sanfilippo (running with a "hard on crime" message)
Partido El Movimiento, five lists (despite only having a non update Blogspot site)
Partido Acción Ciudadana

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Córdoba (98%)
Deputies
Frente Cambiemos 48.4
Union por Cordoba 30.6
Frente Córdoba Ciudadana 9.8
Encuentro Vecinal[/coral] 3.6
Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores 3.3
Primero la Gente 2.5
Izquierda al Frente por el Socialismo 2

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Santa Fe
(9 deputies)
 Cambiemos, UCR, PRO(both the UCR amd Pro are large parties in SF) and CC-ARI, after threats from the UCR of running their own list in the primaries, they'll present an unity list lead by Albor Cantard (UCR), Luciano Laspina (PRO) and Lucila Lehmann (CC)

Alianza Frente Justicialista Santafesino, Partido Justicialista, Partido Comunista, Encuentro por la Democracia y la Equidad, Partido Solidario, Partido Progreso Social, Frente Grande y el Partido Intransigente. It will have a primary between
         -kirchneristas with Agustín Rossi
         -non kirchnerista peronist lists, led by judge Alejandra Rodenas
 
Frente Progresista, Partido Socialista and it's  allies, GEN, PDP, SI, Movimiento Libres del Sur,  lead by Luis Contigiani, the provincial minister of production

1 Proyecto Santafesino, Massa's list in Santa Fe. Esa alianza está compuesta por el Movimiento Integración y Desarrollo (MID), Santafesino Cien por Ciento, Partido Tercera Posición, Partido CET and Partido Demócrata Cristiano.



Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores (FIT), Partido del Obrero, PTS, Izquierda por una Opción Socialista.


Partido Popular, Partido Conservador Popular, la Unión por la Libertad y Compromiso Federal. Small right wings parties, apparently unrelated to 2015's UNA, but still somewhat allied with Massa,

Frente Social y Popular  Partido Socialista Auténtico, la Nueva Izquierda, el Partido del Trabajo y del Pueblo, IE Unidad Popular and Partido Patria Grande
Ciudad Futura, who tried to get a women-only list, which was widely opposed for violated the gender quota law
Vamos Juntos: Partido Política Abierta para la Integridad Social (an anti-Menem party from the mid 90s), Partido Popular Pastoral Ecuménico.
Partidos del Campo Popular, far right
Partido Autonomista
Unite por la Libertad y la Dignidad
Unión Celeste y Blanco, De Narváez's old party
Partido Popular
Partido Federal
Alianza Espacio Grande
Movimiento Independiente Renovador
Partido Nacionalista Constitucional UNIR, far right?

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Mendoza
(5 Deputies)
Cambiemos: UCR, PRO, Partido Demócrata, CC- ARI and FE
Somos Mendoza, PJ and the parties within FPV

Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores (FIT): PTS and PO

Primero Mendoza: Partido Socialista, Frente Renovador and Libres del Sur.
Partido Intransigente, an old left-wing, pro-peronist schism of the UCR
Partido del Trabajo y del Pueblo in an alliance with IE Unidad Popular
Partido Verde de Mendoza, center-left peronistas
Podemos con la Izquierda MST
Encuentro por Mendoza: Partido Federal y Encuentro Federal. They are irrelevant AFAiK

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Entre Ríos
(5 Deputies)

Somos Entre Ríos, Peronistas, an alliance between two different wings of this movement, those of governor Bordet (who is in a middle ground between his own post-Kirchnerism and Massa)  and former governors Busti (closer to Massa) and Urribarri (FPV). Formed by the PJ (Led by Bordet), Frente Entrerriano Federal (Busti), Frente Grande, Movimiento por Todos; el Partido CET (Moyano) and Compromiso Federal.

Frente Cambiemos, formed by Pro, UCR, GEN, FE, Unión por la Libertad and Movimiento Social Entrerriano (a party that supported Massa in 2015)

Encuentro 50cial, Partido Socialista, which will run an informal alliance with several center left and left wing parties and pro-Massa Nuevo Espacio
Nueva Izquierda, MST

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Tucumán
(4 Deputies)
Frente Justicialista por Tucumán, formed by Partido Justicialista, Frente Grande, Kolina, Acuerdo Federal,  Partido de la Victoria, Solidario, Partido del Trabajo y la Equidad, Massa's Frente Renovador and Pueblo Unido (a party led by an UCR member and former deputy for De Gennaro's Unidad Popular)
Cambiemos para el Bicentenario , UCR, el PRO, la Democracia Cristiana, Libres del Sur and  Partido por la Justicia Social (the party of the mayor of Tucuman's capital) Led by 2011 and 2015 candidate for governor José Cano (UCR).


Fuerza Republicana, a local right wing Party
Frente Amplio Tucumano, a center-left to left wing alliance between Unión y Progreso Social (led by Mario Koltan, an -former?- ally of Massa), Partido del Trabajo y del Pueblo (PCR),  Partido Socialista and Corriente Clasista y Combativa. Their list will be led by Mario Koltan
Frente Izquierda de los Trabajadores PO and PTS
MST
Movimiento de Participación Ciudadana

[Velasco]

It's remarkable that the "Frente Para la Victoria" (FPV) label has been ruled out. Now the Justicialist and/or Kirchnerist alliances have different names in every district: "Unidad Ciudadana", "Unidad Porteña", "Justicialist Front", etcetera. Is that a symptom of disintegration?