Evita Movement

The Evita Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Evita) is a social, piquetero and political movement of Argentina, which is defined by Peronist, national, popular, and revolutionary ideology.^[7] Its name was adopted as a tribute to the Argentine popular political leader and First Lady Eva Perón.

Evita Movement Movimiento Evita
Secretary-General	Emilio Pérsico
Founded	June 2004; 20 years ago (2004-06)
Headquarters	Buenos Aires
Youth wing	Evita Peronist Youth
Ideology	Kirchnerism[1][2][3]
Political position	Left-wing[4]
National affiliation	Unión por la Patria
Regional affiliation	São Paulo Forum
Mercosur Parliament group	Grupo Progresista [es]
Colors	White, Blue
Senators[5]	0 / 72
Deputies[6]	2 / 257
Governors	0 / 24
Mercosur Parliamentarians	1 / 43
Website
movimiento-evita.org.ar
Politics of Argentina Political parties Elections

It was created in 2004 and was part of the Front for Victory. Its general secretary is Emilio Pérsico.^[8] Other major figures of the movement are National Deputies Leonardo Grosso (former chairman of the Movement's in the lower house), the journalist Fernando "Chino" Navarro, Gildo Onorato, Silvia Horne, Remo Carlotto, Lucila De Ponti, and Araceli Ferreyra, former senators Juan Manuel Abal Medina Jr. and Teresita Luna, and Evita-UTEP liaison Esteban Castro.^[8]

In 2016, it separated from the parliamentary bloc Front for Victory, forming one of its own called Peronism for Victory.^[9] Now, it supports Alberto Fernández and is part of Frente de Todos, a new Peronist coalition.^[10] In 2023 it created a new political party, "La Patria de los comunes", to be part of the Frente de Todos in a more formal capacity.^[11]

History

The Evita Movement emerged in 2004, as a result of the union of diverse groups from the Quebracho Revolutionary Patriotic Movement and the Anibal Verón Current of Unemployed Workers, with roots mainly in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.^[12]

In its first year, the Evita Movement organized itself as a piquetero unemployed movement (MTD), but later redefined its purpose to reorganize itself as a popular revolutionary wing of Kirchnerism, acting with ample autonomy both inside and outside the Justicialist Party (PJ). In 2007, Emilio Pérsico was named secretary of Territorial Organizations of the PJ. One of the unusual characteristics of the Evita Movement is that its electoral secretary has lacked interest in holding political office.^[12]

The Evita Movement, like other movements of the unemployed, grants a central role to the organization of its members to work cooperatively, mainly in the construction of popular housing, financed by the state. The popular power policy of the Evita Movement was explained in these terms by one of its members:

The popular organization determines the possibility for participants' appropriation of public policy decisions and of the allocation of resources. And this generates a much more solid relationship of public policy [with the beneficiaries] that makes this process more difficult to reverse. When a person in a cooperative builds fifty houses, how can you tell him that he no longer has his job? On the other hand, when the houses are built by a company, the company just submits another tender to the state. This does not produce a relationship of power in which the active participants are the people. We call this social policy, as Evita [Perón] called it: "the organized popular force", "the popular power".^[13]

It participated in the 2017 legislative election, joining the Citizen's Unity electoral front.^[14]

Electoral performance

President

Election year	Candidate		Coalition	1st round		2nd round		Result
				# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall votes	% of overall vote
2011	Cristina Kirchner		Front for Victory	11,865,055	54.11 (1st)	—		Y Elected
2015	Daniel Scioli		Front for Victory	9,338,449	37.08 (1st)	12,198,441	48.60 (2nd)	N 2-R Defeated
2019	Alberto Fernández		Frente de Todos	12,473,709	48.10 (1st)	—		Y Elected

Chamber of Deputies

Election year	Votes	%	seats won	total seats	position	presidency	notes
2009	5,544,069	28.70 (#2nd)	2	5 / 257	Minority	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (PJ—FPV)	within Front for Victory
2011	10,793,689	52.46 (#1st)	5	7 / 257	Minority	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (PJ—FPV)	within Front for Victory
2013	7,422,451	32.82 (#1st)	1	6 / 257	Minority	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (PJ—FPV)	within Front for Victory
2015	8,797,279	37.41 (#1st)	4	6 / 257	Minority	Mauricio Macri (PRO—Cambiemos)	within Front for Victory
2017	5,265,069	21.03 (#2nd)	0	4 / 257	Minority	Mauricio Macri (PRO—Cambiemos)	within Citizen's Unity
2019	11,359,508	45.50 (#1st)	1	2 / 257	Minority	Alberto Fernández (PJ—FDT)	within Frente de Todos

Notes

References

1. Caminos, Mauricio (12 October 2016). "Movimiento Evita, la organización kirchnerista que aún crece durante el macrismo". La Nación.
2. Sued, Gabriel (17 January 2012). "El Movimiento Evita, otro polo de poder en el kirchnerismo". La Nación.
3. Sued, Gabriel (24 February 2013). "La isla del Evita: Una escuela para aprender a ser kirchnerista". La Nación.
4. Lacour, Pedro; Marin, Lucila (15 July 2021). "Los movimientos sociales aliados al Gobierno buscan resistir a las presiones de las bases y reclaman más trabajo que subsidios". La Nación.
5. "Bloques Politicos" [Political Blocs] (in Spanish). Argentine Senate. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
6. "Interbloques" (in Spanish). Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
7. Boyanovsky Bazán, Christian (1 February 2012). "Epílogo" [Epilogue]. El aluvión: Del Piquete al Gobierno: Los movimientos sociales y el Kirchnerismo [The Alluvium: From the Picket to the Government: Social Movements and Kirchnerism] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House. ISBN 9789500735612. Retrieved 27 June 2018 – via Google Books.
8. Caminos, Mauricio (12 October 2016). "Movimiento Evita, la organización kirchnerista que aún crece durante el macrismo" [Evita Movement, the Kirchnerist Organization that Still Grows During Macrism]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2018.
9. "El Movimiento Evita abandona el bloque kirchnerista en Diputados" [The Evita Movement Abandons the Kirchnerist Bloc in Deputies]. Perfil (in Spanish). 23 June 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
10. Lacour, Pedro (25 July 2021). "Los movimientos sociales y los gremios, con lugares confirmados en las listas del oficialismo". La Nación.
11. "Los Movimientos sociales lanzaron el partido La Patria de los Comunes: críticas al Gobierno y respaldo a CFK" [Social movements started the party "La patria de los comunes": criticism to the government and support to CFK] (in Spanish). TN. March 17, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
12. Rossi, Federico M. (14 July 2015). "Beyond Clientelism: The Piquetero Movement and the State in Argentina". In Almeida, Paul; Cordero Ulate, Allen (eds.). Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America. Springer. pp. 117–127. ISBN 9789401799126. Retrieved 27 June 2018 – via Google Books.
13. Rossi, Federico M.; von Bülow, Marisa, eds. (3 March 2016). "Conceptualizing Strategy Making in a Historical and Collective Perspective". Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America. Routledge. p. 36. ISBN 9781317053712. Retrieved 28 June 2018 – via Google Books.
14. Bullorini, Jazmín (29 June 2017). "Efecto Cristina: Taiana se enojó con el Movimiento Evita porque apoya a Randazzo y pidió licencia" [Cristina Effect: Taiana Got Angry with the Evita Movement Because She Supports Randazzo and Asked for Leave]. Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2018.

External links

• Official website