Front For Change/Social Pole

The Front for Change/Social Pole (Spanish: Frente para el Cambio/Polo Social) is a progressive political party in Argentina.

At the 2005 legislative elections, sections of the party joined the Encuentro Amplio with other left-wing parties in Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires Province. The coalition did badly and lost its existing national representation.


Political parties in Argentina
Major national parties
  • Front for Victory (FPV)
  • Broad Progressive Front (FAP)
  • Justicialist Party (PJ)
  • Radical Civic Union (UCR)
  • Civic Coalition (CC)
  • Republican Proposal (PRO)
Other parties enjoying
national legislative representation
or Provincial Governorships
  • Alliance Front of Production and Labour (San Juan)
  • Chaco Deserves More
  • Civic and Social Front of Catamarca
  • Civic Front for Santiago
  • Dialogue for Buenos Aires
  • Democratic Party (Mendoza)
  • Democratic Progressive Party (PDP -Santa Fe)
  • Free of the South Movement (Libres del Sur)
  • Front for Everyone (Chaco, Corrientes)
  • Front for the Renewal of Concord (Misiones)
  • Generation for a National Encounter (GEN)
  • Liberal Party of Corrientes
  • Neuquén People's Movement (MPN)
  • New Encounter
  • New Party (Córdoba)
  • New Corrientes Party (PANU)
  • Progressive, Civic and Social Front (Santa Fe)
  • Proyecto Sur (SUR)
  • Salta Renewal Party
  • Solidarity and Equality (SI)
  • Civic Coalition ARI
Other national parties
(mostly subsumed in larger coalitions)
  • Action for the Republic (AR)
  • Authentic Socialist Party (PSA)
  • Broad Front (FG)
  • Christian Democratic Party (DC)
  • Communist Party of Argentina (PCA)
  • Communist Party of Argentina Extraordinary Congress (PCCE)
  • Humanist Party (PH)
  • Integration and Development Movement (MID)
  • Intransigent Party (PI)
  • Movement for Dignity and Independence (MODIN)
  • New Dirigency (ND)
  • Open Politics for Social Integrity (PAIS)
  • Popular Conservative Party (PCP)
  • Recreate for Growth (RECREAR)
  • Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
  • Worker's Party (PO)
Other nationally active
provincially-based parties
  • Autonomist Party of Corrientes
  • Catamarca Popular Movement
  • Commitment to Change (CPC -Buenos Aires)
  • Democratic Liberal Party of Córdoba
  • Democratic Party of the City of Buenos Aires
  • Federal North of Jujuy
  • Federal Party (Buenos Aires)
  • Federalist Unity Party (PAUFE -Buenos Aires Province)
  • Front of the New Party
  • Fueguino People's Movement (MPF)
  • Independent Citizens of Tucumán
  • Movement for a New Country (Misiones)
  • New Space (Entre Ríos)
  • Pampa Sur Movement (MPS -Santa Fe)
  • Party of Buenos Aires Unity
  • Party of the Hope of the Province of Buenos Aires
  • Polo Social (Buenos Aires Province)
  • Provincial Union of Entre Ríos
  • Bloquista Radical Civic Union (UCRB -San Juan)
  • Renewal Crusade (San Juan)
  • Republican Force (FR -Tucumán)
  • Salta Proposal
  • Solidarity Party (PSOL -Buenos Aires)
  • Union and Liberty Party (PUL -San Luis)
  • Union for Everyone (UPT -Buenos Aires)
Minor parties
(not going to elections or
less than 2% in a district )
  • Liberal Libertarian Party
  • Constitutional Nationalist Party (UNIR)
  • Independent Movement of the Unemployed and the Retired (MIJD)
  • Movement towards Socialism (MAS)
  • People's Reconstruction Party (PPR)
  • Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina (PCR)
  • Self-determination and Freedom (AyL)
  • Socialist Left (IS)
  • Socialist Workers' Party (PTS)
  • Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT)
  • Workers' Socialist Movement (MST)
Other recent, or prominent,
electoral alliances
(as of 2009 )
  • Plural Consensus
  • Union PRO
  • Justicialist Front
  • Federal Santa Fe
  • Federal Civic Front (Mendoza)
  • Federal Consensus (ConFe)
  • Front of the Popular Movement (UP)
  • Alliance Union of Cordoba
  • Alliance New Front (Córdoba)
  • Justicialist Front of Entre Ríos
  • Front for Integration (Chubut)
  • Front of Jujuy
  • Concertation for Development (Río Negro)
  • Change for Growth (Santa Cruz)
  • Salta Federal Front
  • We are all Salta
  • Front It Is Possible
  • Democratic Party PRO (Mendoza)
  • Pueblo Nuevo (La Pampa)
  • Anticapitalist and Socialist Front of the Left and the People
  • Party of Labour and of the People
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  • List of political parties
  • Politics of Argentina
  • Argentine former political parties

Famous quotes containing the words front, change, social and/or pole:

    “That big gun in your hand makes you look grown up—you think! I’ll bet you spend hours posing in front of a mirror holding it, trying to look tough!... You scum!”
    —Richard Brooks (1912–1992)

    “Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “The rebel, unlike the revolutionary, does not attempt to undermine the social order as a whole. The rebel attacks the tyrant; the revolutionary attacks tyranny. I grant that there are rebels who regard all governments as tyrannical; nonetheless, it is abuses that they condemn, not power itself. Revolutionaries, on the other hand, are convinced that the evil does not lie in the excesses of the constituted order but in order itself. The difference, it seems to me, is considerable.”
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    “This man was very clever and quick to learn anything in his line. Our tent was of a kind new to him; but when he had once seen it pitched, it was surprising how quickly he would find and prepare the pole and forked stakes to pitch it with, cutting and placing them right the first time, though I am sure that the majority of white men would have blundered several times.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)