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The Broad Front or FA (in Spanish: Frente Amplio) is an Uruguayan coalition of political parties and organizations. Frente Amplio is led by Tabaré Vázquez, the current President of Uruguay. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT and the cooperative housing movement.

Frente Amplio was founded as a coalition of more than a dozen fractured leftist parties and movements in 1971. The first president of the front and its first candidate for the presidency of the country was General Líber Seregni. The front was declared illegal during the military coup d'état of 1973 and emerged again in 1984 when democracy was restored in Uruguay.

In 1994 Progressive Encounter (Encuentro Progresista) was formed by split-offs from the National Party and Colorado Party, as well by groups who had left FA. EP and FA started contesting elections jointly under the name Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio. Later another force, Nuevo Espacio, became linked to the front. Thus it started contesting elections as Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio - Nueva Mayoria.

In 2005 member organizations of Progressive Encounter and New Majority (essentially Nuevo Espacio) merged into the front. Previously, EP and later NM had been allied with FA but organizationally separate structures.

At the last legislative elections, 31 October 2004, the party won 51.4 % of the popular vote and 52 out of 99 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 17 out of 31 in the Senate. Its presidential candidate, Tabaré Vázquez, won the same day 51.4 % of the popular vote. The alliance is - as far as available - formed by:

• Asamblea Uruguay (Uruguay Assembly)
• Confluencia Frenteamplio (Broad Front Confluence)
• Movimiento 26 de Marzo (March 26 Movement)
• Corriente 78 (Current 78)
• Movimiento de Participación Popular (Movement of Popular Participation)
• Partido Demócrata Cristiano del Uruguay (Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay)
• Partido Comunista del Uruguay (Communist Party of Uruguay)
• Partido de los Comunes (Party of the Communes)
• Partido Socialista del Uruguay (Socialist Party of Uruguay)
• Vertiente Artiguista (Artiguista Fall)
• Alianza Nacional (National Alliance)
• Nuevo Espacio (New Space)

[edit] 2004 Electoral strength

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Summary of the 31 October 2004 General Assembly of Uruguay election results

Parties and alliances	Votes	Chamber of Deputies		Chamber of Senators
		%	Seats	%	Seats
Broad Front - Progressive Encounter - New Majority (Frente Amplio Encuentro Progresista Nueva Mayoria) Uruguay Assembly (Asamblea Uruguay) Broad Front Confluence (Confluencia Frenteamplio) Current 78 (Corriente 78) Movement of Popular Participation (Popular Movimiento de Participación Popular) Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay (Partido Demócrata Cristiano del Uruguay) Communist Party of Uruguay (Partido Comunista del Uruguay) Party of the Communes (Partido de los Comunes) Socialist Party of Uruguay (Partido Socialista del Uruguay) Artiguista Fall (Vertiente Artiguista) National Alliance (Alianza Nacional) New Space (Nuevo Espacio)		50.4	52		17
National Party (Partido Nacional-Blancos)		34.3	35		11
Colorado Party (Partido Colorado)		10.4	10		3
Independent Party (Partido Independiente)		1.8	2		-
Total (turnout %)			99		31
Source: Corte Electoral and El País Uruguay, Angus Reid

[edit] Results in the 2004 internal elections

In 2004 the first internal elections for EP-FA-NM was held. Previously elections had only been held within FA.

List	Party	Votes	%
609	Espacio 609 (Movimiento de Participación Popular) Movimiento de Liberación Nacional - Tupamaros Izquierda Abierta Movimiento Claveles Rojos Columna Blanca	148,426	33.18
90	Espacio 90 Partido Socialista Movimiento Socialista Emilio Frugoni Partido por la Seguridad Social Acción Renovadora	79,090	17.68
2121	Espacio 2121 Asamblea Uruguay Movimiento Popular Frenteamplista	40,741	9.11
738	Alianza Progresista Confluencia Frenteamplista Corriente 78 Partido Demócrata Cristiano Corriente Encuentrista Independiente	37,628	8.41
77	Vertiente Artiguista Artiguismo y Unidad Izquierda Democrática Independiente	34,536	7.72
99000	Nuevo Espacio	30,762	6.88
1001	Democracía Avanzada Partido Comunista del Uruguay Frente Izquierda de Liberación	26,569	5.94
326	Movimiento 26 de Marzo	12,175	2.72
1303	Corriente Popular	8,776	1.96
1813	Liga Federal Frenteamplista	7,425	1.66
5271	Corriente de Izquierda Tendencia Marxista Alternativa Popular 1815 - Espacio Solidario Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores-CI Unión Popular	5,233	1.17
567	Unión Frenteamplista Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo	2,664	0.64
9393	Corriente de Unidad Frenteamplista	2,354	0.53
1968	Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores-IV Internacional	387	0.09
871	Partido Obrero Revolucionario (Trotskista-Posadista)	371	0.08
5205	Movimiento 20 de Mayo	198	0.04
11815		86	0.02
2571	Agrupación 5 de Febrero de 1971	23	0.01
	Total:	447,313

[edit] External link

• EP-FA-NM - Official web site