Salta Identity Party | |
Native Name: | Partido Identidad Salteña |
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Leader1 Title: | Leader |
Leader1 Name: | Gustavo Sáenz[1] |
Leader2 Title: | President |
Leader2 Name: | Benjamín Cruz[2] |
Founded: | [3] |
Membership Year: | 2017 |
Membership: | 4,068[4] [5] |
Ideology: | Peronism[6] Regionalism[7] |
Position: | Center-right[8] [9] |
Colors: | Maroon[10] |
Seats1 Title: | Argentine Chamber of Deputies (Salta seats) |
Seats2 Title: | Argentine Senate (Salta seats) |
Seats3 Title: | Seats in the Salta Senate |
Seats4 Title: | Seats in the Salta Chamber of Deputies |
Country: | Argentina |
The Salta Identity Party (Spanish; Castilian: Partido Identidad Salteña; PAIS) is a provincial political party in the Salta Province of Argentina. It was founded by Gustavo Sáenz ahead of the 2015 general election; Sáenz has been governor of Salta since 2019.[11]
The party was a member of the United for a New Alternative alliance until 2017, when it aligned itself with Cambiemos.[11] It supported Roberto Lavagna and former Salta governor Juan Manuel Urtubey's 2019 unsuccessful presidential run; since then it has distanced itself from any national alliances.[12] [13] The party counts with representation – but no majorities – in both houses of the Salta provincial legislature. It counts with no representation at the federal level.
Its logo, adopted ahead of the 2019 gubernatorial elections, is a stylized poncho salteño. The party's use of the traditional poncho led to a legal dispute with an ally party, Salta Unites Us (SNU), that also used a stylized poncho as part of its image.[10] The dispute was settled by the province's Electoral Tribunal, which sentenced in favor of PAIS and ruled both parties could freely use the poncho as their logo.[14]
Election year | Votes | % | seats won | total seats | position | presidency | notes | |
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2015 | 184,185 | 28.09 (#2nd) | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | Mauricio Macri (PRO—Cambiemos) | within UNA | ||
2017 | 211,377 | 30.25 (#1st) | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | Mauricio Macri (PRO—Cambiemos) | within Cambiemos | ||
2019 | 83,633 | 11.87 (#3rd) | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | Alberto Fernández (PJ—FDT) | within Union for Salta |
Election year | Candidate | Coalition |
| % of overall vote | Result | ||
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2015 | Juan Carlos Romero | Romero + Olmedo Front | 203,417 | 30,63 (2nd) | Defeated | ||
2019 | Gustavo Sáenz | Sáenz Gobernador Front | 377,389 | 53.65 (1st) | Elected |