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Front for a Country in Solidarity Front for a Country in Solidarity The Front for a Country in Solidarity ( or ) was a political coalition in Argentina. It 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 policies and the alleged corruption of the Carlos Menem administration; the Frente joined with other dissenting Peronists, the Unidad Socialista (Popular and Democratic Socialist Party) and several other leftist parties and individuals. Its leading figures were José Octavio Bordón, Carlos "Chacho" Álvarez and Graciela Fernández Meijide. Shortly after the founding