The Social and Civic Agreement (, ACyS) was a center-left congressional alliance in Argentina, integrated by the Radical Civic Union (UCR) the Socialist Party (PS) and the Civic Coalition ARI (CC-ARI), which acted as an umbrella national electoral alliance at the last 2009 Argentine legislative elections.Ámbito Financiero, El frente de Carrió y la UCR se llamará Acuerdo Cívico y Social, 28 April 2009 The Civic Coalition, which was a founder member of the Social and Civic Agreement, left the alliance on 12 August 2010. Con más críticas, Carrió se aleja del Acuerdo Cívico, La Nación

Background During the 2008 conflicts between the Argentine Government and the agricultural sector, most factions of the parties that would later ally themselves into the ACyS took a strong stance against the National Government's agricultural policy. Previously, at the 2007 presidential elections, the Civic Coalition and the Socialist Party ran on a joint presidential ticket, and - since 2005 - both parties plus the Radical Civic Union make up the Progressive, Civic and Social Front alliance in Santa Fe Province that won the provincial Governorship on 2 September 2007 for socialist Hermes Binner.

2009 legislative elections The ACyS was composed of the following parties in each Province:For complete candidates lists, copy and paste the entire link: http://www.urgente24.com/index.php?id=ver&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=122458&cHash=cbf2aeeec5

DistrictParties under ACyS umbrellaForemost candidatesNotesResults of the 28 June 2009 electionsElecciones legislativas de 2009 - Resultados Civic Coalition Radical Civic Union Alfonso Prat Gay Ricardo Gil Lavedra Elisa Carrió 19,05% 344.388 votes 3rd place Civic Coalition Federal Consensus (ConFe) Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Margarita Stolbizer Ricardo Alfonsín Mario Barbieri 21,48% 1.555.825 votes 3rd place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Genaro Collantes Oscar Castillo 38,86% 57.499 votes Winner Civic Coalition New Party Socialist Party Luis Juez Norma Morandini Gumersindo Alonso 27,97% 462.561 votes Winner Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Nito Artaza 32,75% 141.021 votes 2nd place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Pablo Orsolini Alicia Terada 44,42% 227.006 votes 2nd place Civic Coalition Radical Civic Union Atilio Benedetti Hilda Ré 35,02% 228.263 votes Winner Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Ricardo Buryaile María Inés Delfino 35,75% 79.366 votes 2nd place Jujuy Popular Movement Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Mario Fiad 30,97% 84.284 votes 2nd place Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Juan Carlos Marino Ulises Forte 35,47% 62.782 votes 2nd place Civic Coalition Federal Consensus (ConFe) Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Ernesto Sanz Laura Montero 48,40% 414.822 votes Winner Civic Coalition Socialist Party Edgardo Kristensen Beatriz Kreitman 5,05% 13.805 votes 6th place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Propuesta Salteña Radical Civic Union Ricardo Gómez Diez 4,86% 23.362 votes 7th place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Rodolfo Colombo 15,07% 47.836 votes 3rd place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Daniel Rodríguez Saá 11,94% 22.948 votes 4th place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Eduardo Costa 42,54% 53.133 votes Winner Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Communist Party Democratic Progressive Party Solidarity and Equality Rubén Giustiniani Alicia Ciciliani Silvia Augsburger 40,60% 662.210 votes 2nd place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union José Luis Zavalía 11,07% 33.781 votes 3rd place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Leonardo Gorbacz 9,36% 5.687 votes 5th place Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union José Cano Juan Casañas 15,62% 108.469 votes 2nd place

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See also Politics of Argentina