Background
From the national organisation to 1916, the conservative National Autonomist Party directed Argentine politics, before being ousted by the Radical Civic Union. The Infamous Decade (1930–1943) saw the first of several coup d'états in Argentina and a return of the conservatives through so-called "patriotic fraud". Since 1946, the strongest party has been the Justicialist Party (when not banned, it lost only two presidential elections, in 1983 and 1999). The second most important party was traditionally the Radical Civic Union, until the 2001 collapse.
In the 2003 Argentine general election the first and the second places were earned by Justicialist presidential candidates. In the 2007 presidential election, the Civic Coalition earned a second place, but this party dropped to 1% of the popular vote in the 2011 general election.
In the 2011 presidential election, left-wing Justicialist president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner renewed her mandate for another 4 years.
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