The Front for a Country in Solidarity ( or ) was a center-left to left-wing
History
The coalition was formed in 1994 out of the Broad Front (Frente Grande), which had been founded mainly by progressive members of the Peronist Justicialist Party who denounced the neoliberal policies and alleged corruption of the Carlos Menem administration; the Broad Front joined with other dissenting Peronists, the Unidad Socialista (Popular and Democratic Socialist Party) and several other leftist parties and individuals.
Shortly after its foundation, the coalition contested the 1995 elections, with José Octavio Bordón running for president with Carlos "Chacho" Álvarez as running mate. While the coalition did not win the election, the campaign was considered nonetheless very successful for a newly-formed alliance, as Bordón came second with 29.3% of the vote. It overperformed the performance of the Broad Front from the 1993 election by five times, winning 21.0%, compared to Broad Front's 4.2%. FrePaSo also relegated UCR to a third place in the presidential election for the first time in decades.
Subsequently, Bordón proposed converting FrePaSo into a unified party, while Álvarez wanted a loose confederation of different parties. On May 17, 1995, Bordón and Álvarez announced the formation of a confederation, with a unified political platform and leadership, with the third largest block in the Argentine National Congress. The Intransigent Party and the Christian Democratic Party joined the coalition. Bordón later resigned after a leadership battle and returned to the Justicialist Party.
FrePaSo leaders believed that UCR divided the middle-class anti-PJ vote and considered it imperative to set aside programmatic differences and form a common front with the UCR to unseat the Justicialist Party. The FrePaSo campaigned for the 1999 elections in an alliance with the larger Radical Civic Union (UCR) and a few provincial parties, the Alliance for Work, Justice, and Education (known simply as the Alliance), which won the presidency for Fernando de la Rúa. The anti-Menem coalition of UCR and FrePaSo placed first in the 1999 presidential and general elections, ending a decade of Peronist dominance. This victory seemed to solidify FrePaSo's third party status, and several scholars believed that FrePaSo would become an institutionalized, permanent force in the Argentine politics.
Contrary to the expectations, De la Rúa's austerity policies did not result in growth. Instead, the recession persisted, and unemployment rose, while tax revenue continued to fall and offset the spending cuts. The voters now blamed the Alliance for the Argentina's recession and debt. Giovanni Grisendi argued that the Alliance government, and by extension FrePaSo which supported it, "now ‘owned’ Argentina’s recession and debt, creating a political crisis for the country’s new governing coalition." Further issues emerged in late 2000 when a major corruption scandal broke out regarding bribery in the Senate. Eleven senators were found to have accepted payments totaling four million US dollars to support the 2000 labor market reform. The payments originated from, among others, the Labor Secretary Alberto Flamarique, who was a member of FrePaSo.