Plural Consensus
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Plural Consensus (Spanish: Concertación Plural) is an Kirchnerist electoral alliance in Argentina acting as a political bloc in the Argentine Senate and elsewhere.
The coalition is largely made up of members of the Radical Civic Union who support the governing Peronists led by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Former President Nestor Kirchner proposed the Consensus as a new centre-left force in Argentine politics. [1]
The leading former Radical supporting the Kirchners is Julio Cobos, now Vice President. Formally, the bloc's two senators are Senator Dora Sánchez of Corrientes Province and Pablo Verani of Río Negro Province, both former Radicals. Other leading members of the consensus, often termed 'Radicales K', are governors Miguel Saiz, Gerardo Zamora and Arturo Colombi and deputies such as Daniel Katz. In the Chamber of Deputies, a similar bloc of ten deputies named 'Of the Consensus' (de la Concertación) exists, led by Katz.
It is as yet unclear whether the 'Plural Consensus' tag will be more widely used formally beyond the Senate as the term for the new, broader governing coalition, or whether it simply refers to a new style of politics. It is widely used in the media to describe the non-Justicialist elements of the ruling coalition.
In 2008, Kirchner began to form plans to take the leadership of the Justicialist Party and reach an accommodation with those Justicialists who have opposed him, particularly the backers of Roberto Lavagna. This 'normalization' of Peronist politics has left some Kirchner supporters outside Justicialist ranks uneasy, in addition to the government's tough line in the conflict with the agricultural sector. The Radical leadership has begun preparations to reach out to the Radicales K.[2]
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