Neighbourhood Action Movement

Neighbourhood Action Movement
Movimiento de Acción Vecinal
PresidentMartín Dandach[1]
Founded1999; 25 years ago (1999)[2]
Membership (2017)Increase 12,773[3][4]
IdeologyLocalism[5]
Centrism[6]
Political positionCenter-right[7]
Colors  Green[8]
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies
0 / 257
Seats in the Senate
0 / 72

The Neighbourhood Action Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Acción Vecinal; MAV) is a national localist[5] political party in Argentina based in Córdoba Province. It was founded in 1999 by Kasem Dandach, an immigrant from Lebanon who served as a provincial lawmaker.[2] It has run its own candidates in presidential elections in 2015 and 2019; both times, it has failed to secure enough votes to cross the threshold mandated by the Mandatory, Open and Simultaneous Primaries (PASO) to participate in the general election.[9] According to them, they are a centrist group, although the media consider them center-right.

According to Raúl Albarracín, the party's leader in Córdoba Province and twice presidential candidate, the Neighbourhood Action Movement stands for a free market economy, supporting regional economies in Argentina's provinces and introducing a reform of the judiciary.[6]

  1. ^ Martin Dandach en Vení Mañana por Telefé (Television production) (in Spanish). 30 July 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b ""Queremos la unidad en serio"". El Diario (in Spanish). 4 May 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ^ "AFILIACIONES A LOS PARTIDOS POLITICOS". electoral.gob.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Estadística de Afiliados" (PDF). electoral.gob.ar (in Spanish). 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Hamid Dib precandidato a diputado del Parlasur". Diario Sirio Libanés (in Spanish). 5 August 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  6. ^ a b "El candidato "contra": quién es el único presidencial que no lleva foto de su vice en la boleta". Clarín (in Spanish). 23 July 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  7. ^ Corrêa, Sonia (2022). Anti-gender politics in Latin America in the pandemic context. Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinas de Aids - ABIA. ISBN 978-65-87854-15-1.
  8. ^ "Así es la boleta de Movimiento de Acción Vecinal para las Elecciones 2019". La Nación (in Spanish). 25 July 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  9. ^ "PASO 2019: quiénes son los precandidatos que no llegaron a octubre". La Nación (in Spanish). 11 August 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2020.