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23-492: (Redirected from Workers Front ) Workers' Front may refer to one of the following: Workers' Left Front , Argentina Botswana Workers Front Workers' Front of Catalonia Workers' Front (Croatia) Workers' Front (Spain) Galician Workers Front Workers Front for Indochina Socialist Workers Front (Marxist–Leninist) , Panama Frente Obrero (Spanish for 'Workers' Front'), Nicaragua Topics referred to by

46-737: A child in the Bella Vista neighborhood. She studied highschool in the Manuel Belgrano school, where she was an activist and was several times elected as delegate of her class. In 2005, as she was studying Modern Languages in the National University of Córdoba , she participated in the protests for the abolishment of the Higher Studies Law (Ley de Educación Superior), approved years before by Carlos Menem and which Néstor Kirchner harshened. During that time, she would come in contact with

69-700: A councilor in the town of Andacollo for the first time. In June, in Mendoza Province Macarena Escudero was elected as a provincial deputy, and Víctor da Vila was elected as a provincial senator. In the presidential elections, two formulas competed in the primaries in August: one represented by Nicolas del Caño and Myriam Bregman (both from the PTS) against another composed of Jorge Altamira (PO) and Juan Carlos Giordano (IS — Socialist Left). The PTS formula won, with 375,874 votes against 356,977 of

92-420: A primary election. On 23 October 2011, they came very close to winning a national deputy in two areas. In Buenos Aires city their vote was only 0.2% short. In Buenos Aires Province their share of the vote would have entitled them to a deputy, but they fell at a second hurdle where they needed to win 3% of the number of voters on the electoral register. The Front mounted a legal challenge to this hurdle, but

115-749: A provincial senator ( Noelia Barbeito ) in Mendoza, and one provincial deputy in each of Buenos Aires City ( Marcelo Ramal ), Buenos Aires Province ( Christian Castillo ) and Santiago del Estero ( Andrea Ruiz ), and five new councillors, all in towns in Mendoza Province. On 10 November, the PO had a serious success in provincial elections in Salta Province , winning a provincial senator ( Gabriela Cerrano ) and four provincial deputies ( Julio Quintana , Claudio del Plá , Gabriela Jorge and Norma Colpari ) all elected in

138-749: Is an Argentinian teacher and politician. She is one of the national referents of the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS), a trotskyist party member of the Workers' Left Front (FIT) for which she was a provincial deputy in Córdoba Province from 2014 to 2015, and later from 2015 to 2019. She previously worked as a teacher of literature. Laura Vilches was born on 24 March 1982 in the Santa Fe Province , but has lived in Córdoba since 1987. She grew up and lived as

161-526: Is an activist demanding the legalisation of free abortions and integral sexual education, which allowed her to present the project for Legal, Safe and Free Abortions in 2018 in the National Congress of Argentina . Likewise, she made a judicial case against the Catholic Church in Córdoba for tax evasion and demanding information in the provincial legislature on rents destined by the province governor to

184-463: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Workers%27 Left Front After the 2023 Argentine general election the FIT-U has five national deputies in the National Congress of Argentina : Nicolás del Caño (PTS), Christian Castillo (PTS), Myriam Bregman (PTS), Alejandro Vilca (PTS), and Romina Del Plá (PO). The predecessor of FIT-U

207-548: The En Clave Roja/Tesis XI (Red Key/ 11th Thesis ) student group made up by independent activists and PTS militants. She soon became a militant in 2006; in a few years she would start her job as a teacher and would specialise in Gender studies , becoming one of the main referents of the socialist feminist group Pan y Rosas . 2011 would see the formation of the Workers' Left Front (FIT), a coalition that would bring together

230-704: The main election on 27 October, they won over a million votes, 5.11%, more than double their vote in 2011. They won three national deputies: Néstor Pitrola (PO) in Buenos Aires Province, Pablo Sebastián López (PO) in Salta and Nicolás del Caño (PTS) in Mendoza . There was a challenge to the result in Córdoba Province, where Liliana Olivero (IS) was the candidate. They also won three provincial deputies ( Cecilia Soria , Martín Dalmau and Héctor Fresina ) and

253-673: The 2015 elections , the FIT won 6.27% of votes and three seats, which would allow Vilches to hold a full four-year term. As legislator, she keeps her wage as a teacher and donates the rest of her salary to different worker conflicts, such as the laid-off workers of Minetti, the La Mañana newspaper or the Valeo autoparts factory, as well as the worker-controlled factories MadyGraf and Zanón . She has also donated money to support student and university teacher struggles demanding more budget for education. Against

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276-593: The Front for the October general election . At the 2021 Argentine legislative election , the Front had its best performance, winning 5.91% of the vote and four seats in the national Chamber of Deputies (two in Buenos Aires Province, one each in Buenos Aires City and Jujuy Province ). In the 2023 Argentine general election , the Front won one national deputy. Laura Vilches Laura Vilches (born 24 March 1982)

299-639: The PO+IS one, both adding up to a 3.25% of the total vote. On the main elections in October, Nestor Pitrola was elected as a national deputy for the Buenos Aires province, becoming the fourth Workers' Left Front deputy in the chamber, while the presidential formula headed by Del Caño got 812.530 votes, a 3.23% of the total. After several weeks of meetings, the Workers' Socialist Movement (MST) agreed on June 11, 2019 to join

322-469: The courts turned them down. The Front participated in mobilisations in June 2012. In 2013, it put forward proposals to limit officials' salaries. The Front contested the election for Neuquén city council on 30 June 2013. It won 5.7% of the vote, around double its vote for this election in 2011, and roughly in line with its vote in the provincial election that year. Soon after it announced its candidates for

345-641: The list in San Carlos, Mendoza . On 30 March, the Front received 13.5% of the vote in Mendoza city, so Macarena Escudero was elected as a councillor. The Front's first election of 2015 was local primary elections on 22 February in Mendoza. The Front came 2nd with 16% of the vote, and Andrés Elías is predicted to be elected as a city councilor. In April, it won a second provincial deputy in Neuquén. The seats will be held by Raúl Godoy (PTS) and Patricia Jure (PO), to be followed by Angélica Lagunas (IS). It also won

368-420: The main left-wing trotskyist parties nationally. In Córdoba, the FIT won a seat in the provincial elections for a single district, which would rotate between the three parties of the FIT. On 10 December 2014, Vilches would enter as legislator replacing Cintia Frencia during the remaining term; her sworn in office was accompanied by other PTS referents such as Nicolás del Caño , Noelia Barbeito and Raúl Godoy . In

391-592: The national election. At the primary elections on 11 August 2013, the Front won over 900 000 votes, fairly close to doubling its vote compared to 2011. It increased its vote in nearly all provinces, in some provinces picking up a significant vote from virtually nowhere, an exception was Buenos Aires city where its vote was down marginally on 2011. On 6 October, the PO had a strong performance in provincial primary elections in Salta Province, winning 22% in Salta city. At

414-468: The provincial capital. They also won 17 councilors, including 9 out of the 21 seats on Salta city council, where the PO is now the largest party. On 29 January, the Front registered its alliance to contest the municipal election in Mendoza Province . In Mendoza, Argentina the list was headed by Macarena Escudero (PTS), a student, followed by Soledad Sosa and Andrés Elías (both PO). The PO headed

437-466: The salary increases of legislators, she has presented a project that forces all deputies having the same wage as a teacher. She has requested information about femicides and presented a proposition to create an emergency provincial plan against violence towards women and establishing easy access to subsidies, housing and working and student licenses. She has protested in the Ni una menos movement in Córdoba and

460-478: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Workers' Front . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Workers%27_Front&oldid=1220176989 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Spanish-language text Short description

483-579: 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%. They stood Jorge Altamira of the PO for president and Christian Castillo of the PTS for vice-president on 23 October. On 14 August Altamira and Castillo won 527,237 votes, 2.46%, in

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506-430: 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

529-532: Was the Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores, Anticapitalista y Socialista , which consisted of the PTS, IS and New Movement for Socialism (NMAS). It stood in the 2009 legislative elections. Attempts to include the PO in this front broke down because the PO insisted on filling the first three positions on the lists with its own members. On 12 June, they won a provincial deputy in Neuquén Province with 3.60% of

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