Broad Front Progressive Encounter-New Majority
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The Broad Front Progressive Encounter-New Majority(Frente Amplio Encuentro Progresista Nueva Mayoria) is an Uruguayan coalition of political parties and organizations. It was founded as a coalition of more than a dozen fractured leftist parties and movements in 1971. The front was declared illegal during the coup d'état of 1973 and emerged again in 1984 when democracy was restored in Uruguay. Frente Amplio is led by Tabaré Vázquez, the current President of Uruguay. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT and the cooperative housing movement. While not in power, Frente Amplio has used the Uruguayan referendum system to repeal laws which sought to privatize state-run industries or instate other neoliberal economic reforms.
At the last legislative elections, 31 October 2004, the party won 50.4 % of the popular vote and 52 out of 99 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 17 out of 31 in the Senate. Its presidential candidate, Tabaré Vázquez, won the same day 50.4 % of the popular vote. The alliance is - as far as available - formed by:
- Uruguay Assembly (Asamblea Uruguay)
- Broad Front Confluence (Confluencia Frenteamplio)
- May 26 Movement (Movimiento 26 de Mayo)
- Current 78 (Corriente 78)
- Movement of Popular Participation (Movimiento de Participación Popular)
- Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay (Partido Demócrata Cristiano del Uruguay)
- Communist Party of Uruguay (Partido Comunista del Uruguay)
- Party of the Communes (Partido de los Comunes)
- Socialist Party of Uruguay (Partido Socialista del Uruguay)
- Artuguista Fall (Vertiente Artiguista)
- National Alliance (Alianza Nacional)
- New Space (Nuevo Espacio)
