Civic Coalition ARI
Coalición Cívica ARI |
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Leader | Elisa Carrió |
Founded | 2001 |
Headquarters | Av. Rivadavia 1479, C1033AAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Membership (2012) | 57,597 (6th) |
Ideology |
Social liberalism Liberalism |
Political position | Centre |
National affiliation | Cambiemos |
International affiliation | none |
Colors | Light blue |
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
5 / 257
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Seats in the Senate |
1 / 72
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Website | |
CoalicionCivicaARI.org.ar | |
Civic Coalition ARI (Spanish: Coalición Cívica ARI, CC-ARI), until October 2009 known as Support for an Egalitarian Republic (Spanish: Afirmación para una República Igualitaria, ARI), is a social liberal Argentine political party, founded in 2001 by Elisa Carrió. It is a member of Cambiemos with centrist and centre-right parties.
Elisa Carrió, a former Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, created the ARI after the breakup of the government alliance that brought Fernando de la Rúa to the presidency in 1999.
The 2001 elections gave ARI 17 of the 257 seats in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, and one senator. Carrió got a 14.1% share of the vote in the 2003 presidential elections. In the 2005 elections, ARI won eight seats. In the 2007 elections, ARI won the governorship of the deep-south Province of Tierra del Fuego, when Fabiana Rios, an ARI deputy, defeated the pro-government candidate Hugo Cóccaro, on June 24, 2007. Tierra del Fuego is currently (as of 2008) the first and only province ruled by ARI.