Freedom Union

Union for Freedom, formerly called Union for All and Union for All in the Civic Coalition, is a liberal Argentine political party with legal status in the province of Santa Fe. It was founded in 2003 and dissolved in 2018 in all districts, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Province of Buenos Aires and Córdoba; except in Santa Fe.

The party was led by Patricia Bullrich, Minister of Labor during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa and Minister of National Security, during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.

From 2007 to 2011, the party was part of the Elisa Carrió Civic Coalition. In 2009 it changed its party name and logo and was renamed Union for All in the Civic Coalition.

After the resignation of Elisa Carrió from the Civic Coalition, the alliance with Unión por Todos was broken.

Patricia Bullrich continued to lead the party leadership, although since 2011 it was chaired by Juan Pablo Arenaza, legislator of the City of Buenos Aires.

In 2015 he joined the Cambiemos alliance, which won the elections that year, with Mauricio Macri as its candidate. At the beginning of 2016 he changed his name again to Unión por la Libertad, although he continued to retain his logo: a letter & # 34; U & # 34; capital letter, with a small Flame of Liberty above it.

In March 2018, the party agreed to dissolve and join the PRO. This merger was approved in the National Council of the PRO on March 9, 2018. However, currently the party continues to exist in 2023 at the district level in the provinces of Santa Fe as Union for Freedom and in Buenos Aires as Union for All, this last member of the freedom front advances. Which is led by the national deputy and presidential candidate Javier Milei.

Origin

Its leader Patricia Bullrich was for several decades a leader of the Justicialist Party, belonging to the Revolutionary Tendency led by Montoneros, and was elected national deputy in 1993. In 1999 she abandoned Peronism to join under the mandate of Fernando de la Rúa. the Alliance, being appointed Minister of Labor by President Fernando de la Rúa.

In September 2001 he left the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education to create Fundación Ahora Argentina, the immediate predecessor of what at that time would be Union for All.

Political activity

2003-2006

In the elections for head of the City Government in 2003, the party made an electoral coalition with Recrear para el Crecimiento, a party led at that time by the former Minister of Economy of the Alliance, Ricardo López Murphy, leading Patricia Bullrich as a candidate for head of government. The coalition came in fourth place with 9.8%, behind Mauricio Macri (37%), Aníbal Ibarra (33%) and Luis Zamora (12.3%).

The Buenos Aires legislators separated from the party in the course of 2004, allying themselves with other forces and leaving that party without representation in the legislature of the City of Buenos Aires.

2007-2009

In the 2007 presidential elections the party joined the Civic Coalition, forming an electoral alliance that presented Elisa Carrió as a candidate, obtaining second place with 23%, behind Cristina Fernández (45%). In those elections, a national deputy seat for the city of Buenos Aires was obtained, which corresponded to Patricia Bullrich.

In the 2009 legislative elections, the party managed to win a seat in the legislature of the City of Buenos Aires led by Juan Pablo Arenaza.

2009-2011

In the 2011 presidential elections, the party continued to be part of the Civic Coalition, which led to Elisa Carrió as a candidate for President. Although the presidential candidacy obtained 1.82% of the votes at the national level, Patricia Bullrich headed the list of candidates for National Deputies for the City of Buenos Aires and managed to enter as a national deputy for the period 2011-2015 with the 6, 61% of the votes.^{[citation required]}

After the elections, and with the resignation of Elisa Carrió from the Civic Coalition, the party was expelled from said coalition. In November 2011, Hilma Ré left Union for Freedom to permanently join the Civic Coalition.

2011-2018

After the party was expelled from the Civic Coalition, an alliance began with the Republican Proposal party (PRO), of the then head of the Buenos Aires Government, Mauricio Macri. In the 2013 legislative elections, Juan Pablo Arenaza was third on the PRO list for the City Legislature, headed by Iván Petrella. IN 2012 Yamil Santoro, affiliated with Patricia Bullrich's party, organizer of the marches against the then national government, held a meeting in Brazil with sectors linked to vulture funds and creditor lobby groups who wanted to provide them with financing. Yamil Santoro, Maximiliano Mai and Lucho Bugallo recognized the meeting, which took place in San Pablo. Santoro, from the political party (Unión por Todos, of Patricia Bullrich), also explained that the link for the meeting was through the American Task Force Argentina (ATFA), the main lobby group for the creditors who did not accept the debt exchange. the debt.

In 2015 he was part of the Cambiemos front together with the PRO, the Radical Civic Union and its former partner, the ARI Civic Coalition. He was also a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, the Popular Conservative Party and the Faith Party, among others. Three presidential proto-formulas were presented to compete in the primary elections that year: Mauricio Macri-Gabriela Michetti, for the PRO; Ernesto Sanz-Lucas Llach, for the UCR; and Elisa Carrió-Héctor Flores, for the CC-ARI; Unión por la Libertad, within the framework of its alliance with the PRO, supported the Macri-Michetti formula. The three Cambiemos lists together achieved second place with 30.12% of the total votes, and the Macri-Michetti formula was left with the definitive candidacy, obtaining 81.33% in the internal and 24.5% of the total.

In the 2015 presidential elections, he was part of the Cambiemos political coalition that triumphed by consecrating Mauricio Macri as president of the Nation.

In 2018 the party and some of its members were involved in the case that pointed against the possible commission of the crimes of money laundering, document falsification, violation of secrets and privacy, identity theft and violation of the political party financing law to the PRO authorities in the province: to Vidal; his Chief of Staff, Federico Salvai; the brand new general accountant, María Fernanda Inza; and the mayors Jorge Macri (Vicente López) and Néstor Grindetti (Lanús)11Finally, the lawyer Alén pointed out María Eugenia Vidal (President of the Pro Party in the Province of Buenos Aires) as responsible; María Fernanda Inza, Gabriel Maximiliano Sahonero and Darío Omar Duarte (economic officials of the party), the candidates Esteban Bullrich, Gladys González, Graciela Ocaña, Héctor "Toty" Flowers; and Carla Silvia Chaban and Alfredo Gabriel Irigoin (financially responsible for the campaign carried out by the aforementioned Alianza Cambiemos) and Patricia Bullrich.

Current news as a district party

After the breakup of the party in 2018, in the province of Santa Fe it continued to operate despite this, forming different alliances, outside of JxC until today.

In the 2021 legislative elections, he joined the Podemos alliance, together with the Autonomist Party, garnering 31,763 votes, the equivalent of 1.75% of the provincial roll.

Presidential elections

Election	Formula		Votes	%	Outcome	Coalition
	Chairman	Vice-Chairman
2007	Elisa Carrió (Ind.)	Ruben Giustiniani (PS)	4.403.642	23.04 %	No. Elect	Civic Coalition Confederation
2011	Elisa Carrió (CC-ARI)	José Adrián Pérez (CC-ARI)	399.685	1.82 %	No. Elect	Support for the ARI Civic Coalition formula
2015	Mauritius Macri (PRO)	Gabriela Michetti (PRO)	12.988.349	51.34 %	Yes. Elect	Let's change