Intransigent Party

Intransigent Party
Intransigent Party
President	Enrique Gustavo Cardesa
Founder	Oscar Alende
Founded	1972
Preceded by	Intransigent Radical Civic Union
Headquarters	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ideology	Left-wing populism
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Front for Victory
International affiliation	None
Regional affiliation	COPPPAL
Colors	Red, Black
Slogan	La izquierda popular en el frente
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies	0 / 257
Seats in the Senate	0 / 72
Website
	www.pi.org.ar
	Politics of Argentina; Political parties; Elections;

There is also an Intransigent Party in Uruguay, see Intransigent Party.

The Intransigent Party (Spanish: Partido Intransigente) is a political party in Argentina, founded in 1963 by Oscar Alende. Its membership came from the Intransigent Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical Intransigente), one of the two factions into which the Radical Civic Union had divided in 1956.

The party has nationalist, populist, and center-left ideas.^{[citation needed]} It was for a long time allied with Peronism in elections. Alende was presidential candidate in 1963, 1973, and 1983 without much success.

The party had its most successful period in 1985, becoming the third-largest party. It fell into oblivion after allying with the Justicialist Party from 1987.

The party was part of the FrePaSo coalition from the 1990s and entered government in 1999 as part of the Alianza between FrePaSo and the Radical Civic Union that brought Fernando de la Rúa to the presidency. The Alianza collapsed in 2001 and FrePaSo effectively disappeared.

For the 2003 Presidential Election, the Intransigent Party was allied to ARI, the party of Elisa Carrió, supporting her for President, and allowing her to be candidate (because her party did not have members in all the provinces). For 2005 legislative elections, the Intransigent Party allied with the Broad Front, Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Argentina, forming the coalition called Encuentro Amplio.

In 2007, the Party backed the Front for Victory and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as candidate for President of Argentina.