Workers' Left Front
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Workers' Left Front
Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores |
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| Founded | April 14, 2011 |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires |
| Ideology | Trotskyism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colours | Dark red |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
4 / 257
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| Seats in the Senate |
0 / 72
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The Workers' Left Front (Spanish: Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores, FIT) is an alliance of three Trotskyist parties in Argentina formed to fight a number of elections in 2011, announced at a press conference in April that year. They are the Workers' Party (PO), the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS), and Socialist Left (IS).
These parties had stood separately at the Argentine elections of 2007 and 2009, the PO on its own, and the PTS and IS in an alliance with the Movement for Socialism (MAS). At these two elections the PO did better than the PTS-IS-MAS alliance, and in 2009 both groupings seriously increased their vote in proportion to their vote in 2007. The MAS was invited to join the new alliance but declined.
On 12 June they won a provincial deputy in Neuquén Province with 3.60% of the vote. The post will be held in rotation by Alejandro López, Raúl Godoy (PTS), Angélica Lagunas (IS) and Gabriela Suppicich (PO). (However the deputies elected in June only took their seats on 10 December 2011, so each of the four sit for a year running from December to December.)
On 24 July, in the town of Capitán Bermúdez in Santa Fe Province, the PO had a councillor elected, Jorgelina Signa, with 17% of the vote.
On 7 August Liliana Olivero of IS was re-elected to the Córdoba provincial legislature, this post will be rotated with Cintia Frencia (PO) and Laura Vilches (PTS). The list won 3.12% of the vote, this was largely concentrated in the provincial capital where it won 5.45%.
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