United for a New Alternative () was an Argentine Peronist political coalition, running for the 2015 Argentine general election. It is composed by the Frente Renovador, the Partido Demócrata Cristiano and the Movimiento de Integración y Desarrollo. It ran only once, in the 2015 elections.

In the , Massa and his running mate for vice president Gustavo Sáenz were confirmed as the front's official candidates for the general election. In that election they finished third with 21% of the vote.

In December 2015 a parliamentary inter-bloc was formed for the Chamber of Deputies made up of members of the coalition, under the name Federal Unidos por una Nueva Argentina.

History

Formation On April 30, 2015, national deputy Sergio Massa and the (then) governor of the province of Córdoba José Manuel de la Sota formalized an agreement to build an electoral space that would bring together a broader voting option against the Frente para la Victoria. UNA was presented at the Hilton Puerto Madero hotel.

2015 elections

Simultaneous and mandatory open primaries (PASO) The two lists that stood in the for the Frente UNA were:

Sergio Massa: lawyer and national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires. He had served as deputy for the province of Buenos Aires, chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, executive director of ANSES, and mayor of Tigre, elected twice in a row. His candidate for vice president was Gustavo Sáenz, a lawyer and mayor-elect of the City of Salta who had previously served as a Salta city councillor and held various positions in the Salta municipal cabinet. He had been a provincial senator for his district. José Manuel de la Sota: lawyer, former governor of the Province of Córdoba. He had been a National Deputy for Córdoba, Ambassador to Brazil, National Senator, and was elected Governor of his province three times. His candidate for vice president of the Nation was the former national deputy and trade unionist Claudia Rucci.

In June 2015, both candidates took part in a televised debate ahead of the primary elections, in which they discussed the economy, security, and development.

UNA finished third in the . Between its two candidates (Massa and De la Sota) the alliance obtained 4,649,701 votes, approximately 20.63% of the electorate, with Massa winning the internal contest. With this result, Sergio Massa and his vice-presidential candidate Gustavo Sáenz were confirmed as the front's official ticket for the general election on October 25.

Presidential election Massa stated after the PASO that De la Sota would be his Minister of the Interior in a hypothetical government. In the 2015 general election, UNA with Sergio Massa as candidate obtained 5,211,705 votes (21.39%), finishing in third place behind Daniel Scioli (Frente para la Victoria) and Mauricio Macri (Cambiemos). Ahead of the runoff between Scioli and Macri, Massa did not explicitly endorse either candidate but stated that society was looking for "a change." The runoff ultimately confirmed Macri as President of the Nation. In 2019, ahead of the national elections, most of the parties that made up the coalition, due to the bloc's weakness, disbanded and gave their support to different blocs, those of the Frente Renovador and Red Por Argentina joining the Frente de Todos, while Sergio Massa withdrew his candidacy. UNIR initially supported the Frente Despertar but, due to problems within the bloc, withdrew its support and aligned itself with the bloc of then-Argentine President and 2019 re-election candidate Mauricio Macri of Juntos por el Cambio. The remaining parties supported the non-Kirchnerist Peronist bloc Consenso Federal 2030 in the 2019 elections.

Parties Unidos por una Nueva Argentina was made up of:

PartyMain ideologyLeaderFrente RenovadorFederal PeronismSergio MassaPartido Demócrata CristianoChristian democracyJuan Carlos de la PeñaUnión PopularGraciela DevitaMovimiento de Integración y DesarrolloDevelopmentalismUnión Celeste y BlancoEconomic liberalismFrancisco de NarváezPartido Nacionalista Constitucional - UNIRConstitutionalismAlberto AsseffTercera PosiciónPeronismGraciela Camaño

Electoral performance President Election yearCandidate1st round2nd roundResult # of overall votes % of overall vote # of overall votes % of overall vote 2015 Sergio Massa 5,386,977 21.39 (3rd) Lost

Congressional elections

Chamber of Deputies Election year votes % Seats won Total seats Position Presidency Note 2015 4,115,826 17.6 Minority Cristina Kirchner (FPV—PJ)

After the October elections the Frente Renovador changed the bloc's name to Federal Unidos por una Nueva Argentina and, together with the blocs of Unidos por una Nueva Argentina, Trabajo y Dignidad, Movimiento Popular Neuquino, Compromiso con San Juan, Unión por Entre Ríos, Chubut Somos Todos, and Diálogo y trabajo, formed the 37-deputy inter-bloc "Federal Unidos por una Nueva Argentina."

The deputies who make up UNA are as follows: +DeputyProvinceStartEndBlocAlegre, Gilberto OscarBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Federal Unidos por una Nueva Argentina (23)Camaño, GracielaBuenos Aires12/10/201512/09/2019Ehcosor, María AzucenaBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Litza, Mónica EdithBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Santiago del Estero12/10/201512/09/2019Passo, Marcela FabianaBuenos Aires12/10/201512/09/2019Schwindt, María LilianaBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Solá, Felipe CarlosBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Alonso, Horacio FernandoBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Buenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Santa Fe12/10/201512/09/2019Massa, Sergio TomasBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Moreau, CeciliaBuenos Aires12/10/201512/09/2019Pérez, Raúl JoaquínBuenos Aires12/10/201512/09/2019Selva, Carlos AméricoBuenos Aires12/10/201512/09/2019Tundis, MirtaBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Buenos Aires12/10/201512/09/2019De Mendiguren, José IgnacioBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017CABA12/10/201512/09/2019Massetani, Vanesa LauraSanta Fe12/10/201512/09/2019Moyano, Juan FacundoBuenos Aires12/10/201512/09/2019Pitiot, Carla BetinaCABA12/10/201512/09/2019Jujuy12/10/201512/09/2019Buenos Aires05/23/201812/09/2019Brezzo, María EugeniaCórdoba12/10/201312/09/2017Unidos por una Nueva Argentina (6)Brügge, Juan Fernando (PDC)Córdoba12/10/201512/09/2019Calleri, Agustín SantiagoCórdoba12/10/201312/09/2017Córdoba12/10/201512/09/2019Rossi, Blanca AraceliCórdoba12/10/201312/09/2017Rucci, Claudia MónicaBuenos Aires12/10/201312/09/2017Bermejo, Sixto OsvaldoChubut12/10/201312/09/2017Trabajo y Dignidad (2)Lagoria, Elia NeryChubut12/10/201312/09/2017San Martín, AdriánNeuquén12/10/201312/09/2017Movimiento Popular Neuquino (2)Villar Molina, María InésNeuquén12/10/201312/09/2017Castro Molina, Enrique RobertoSan Juan12/10/201512/09/2019Compromiso con San Juan (1)Cremer de Busti, María CristinaEntre Ríos12/10/201312/09/2017Unión por Entre Ríos (1)Taboada, JorgeChubut12/10/201512/09/2019Chubut Somos Todos (1)CABA12/10/201312/09/2017Dialogo y Trabajo (1)

Senate elections==== Election year votes % Seats won Total seats Position Presidency Note 2015 Minority Cristina Kirchner (FPV—PJ)

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