The Union for the Homeland (
Spanish: Unión por la Patria, UP) is a political and electoral coalition of
Peronist political parties in
Argentina who are the main opposition coalition since December 2023.
In the run-up to the
2019 presidential election, the
Kirchnerist faction of the
Justicialist Party arranged for the establishment of a common
Peronist electoral front. This project ultimately materialized with the formation of the
Frente de Todos coalition, which comprised the Justicialist majority along with a number of other parties of the political
left and
centre. This alliance was itself a successor to both the short-lived
Citizen's Unity bloc formed for the
2017 midterm elections as well as the
Front for Victory, which served as the political instrument of the Kirchnerist political camp between 2003 and 2017. The alliance presented
Alberto Fernández as its sole candidate in the
2019 presidential primaries, in which he secured just under 48% of the vote. In the subsequent general election, Fernández again garnered 48% of the vote, against the 40% of incumbent president
Mauricio Macri of the
Juntos por el Cambio coalition, ousting the sitting administration and returning the Peronists to power after four years in the opposition.[17] Fernández, along with his vice president, the former
President of ArgentinaCristina Fernández de Kirchner, went on to govern the country for the ensuing four-year period. Halfway through this term, the Frente de Todos coalition suffered a significant defeat in the
2021 Argentine legislative election, losing seats in both the
Chamber of Deputies and the
Senate, and thereby losing control of Congress for the first time in nearly 40 years.[18]
In April 2023, President Alberto Fernandez announced that he would not seek re-election in the next
presidential election.[19] In the
primary elections on August of that year,
Sergio Massa defeated
Juan Grabois by a margin of nearly 16 percentage points, although it became the worst result for a ruling Peronist coalition since the PASO was first implemented in 2009.[16]
In the runoff in November 2023,
Libertarian candidate
Javier Milei defeated Massa in the second round with 55.65% of the vote, the highest percentage since
Argentina's transition to democracy. Massa conceded defeat shortly before the official results were published.[20][21]
^Mauri, Odile Gaset.
"La Argentina camino al Balotaje 2023"(PDF). Public and Corporate Solutions LATAM.«El actual oficialismo es una versión más clásica del peronismo catch-all. y se presenta en estas elecciones encabezado por el actual ministro de Economía Sergio Massa, bajo el rótulo de Unión por la Patria, llevando unidas a tres grandes corrientes peronistas: el kirchnerismo, el massismo y el peronismo más tradicional del interior del país, encarnado en los gobernadores y las organizaciones gremiales. »
^Ansaldi, Waldo.
"Si ven el futuro, díganle que no venga"(PDF). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: 30.«Invirtiendo las posiciones, la fórmula Sergio Massa-Agustín Rossi (UxP, centro) obtuvo 36.7% contra Javier Milei-Victoria Villarruel (LLA, extrema derecha), 30%, y Patricia Bullrich Luro Pueyrredón-Luis Petri (JxC, derecha, ahora virando a la extrema), 23.8%. »