Wake Up Front Frente Despertar | |
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Leader | José Luis Espert[1] |
President | José Luis Espert |
Vice President | Luis Rosales |
Founded | 12 June 2019 |
Dissolved | 7 December 2020 |
Succeeded by | Avanza Libertad La Libertad Avanza |
Ideology | Classical liberalism[2][3][4]
Economic liberalism[5][6] Libertarianism[7][8] |
Political position | Right-wing[9][10][11][12] to far-right[13][14] |
Colors | Blue |
Members | |
Website | |
https://despertarargentina.com/ | |
Frente Despertar ('Wake up front') is a political coalition in Argentina. It participated in the 2019 general election, formed by Unite for Freedom and Dignity, the Union of the Democratic Centre, the Libertarian Party and the Democratic Party.
Its presidential candidate was the economist José Luis Espert, who announced on December 23 of 2018 his intention to participate in the presidential elections.[20][21]
The alliance was about to be disbanded because Alberto Asseff's party, UNIR Constitutional Nationalist Party (the only party in the alliance that met the requirements to nominate a presidential candidate), stopped supporting the front. But a few days later, UNITE backed Espert's candidacy[22] and ended up participating in the elections.
On July 14, 2021, the closing day for the presentation of alliances for the 2021 legislative elections, the Avanza Libertad coalition with parties from the center-right sector became official in the Province of Buenos Aires. The UCEDE, the Democratic Party and the Autonomist Party will participate in the coalition, as well as groups that are not yet, legally, political parties in the province, such as Republicans United and the Republican Libertarian Movement.[23]
Following doubts related to the financing of the 2019 Argentine presidential election campaign of the Frente Despertar and the links with the drug trafficking detainee Federico "Fred" Machado,[24] Milei was denounced along with José Luis Espert; Milei did not take part to the 2019 campaign.[25] Luis Rosales, Jimena Aristizabal, and Nazareno Etchepare also entered the complaint before the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 8, for the crimes of concealment and illicit association.[26][27]
Frente Despertar's electoral platform has thirteen proposals; they were announced at the same time as Espert's candidacy, and posted on the coalition's website, where they are explained with more detail.[28]
Year | Formula | Primaries | First round | Result | ||||
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President | Vice president | votes | % | votes | % | Not elected | Position | |
2019 | José Luis Espert | Luis Rosales | 550.593 | 2.16% |
394,206 | 1.47% |
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2019 | 113,812 | 0.44% |
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Year | Votes | % | Seats won | Total seats |
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2019 | 38,970 | 0.69% |
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