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The Progressive Encounter - Broad Front - New Majority (in an 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. While not in power, ''Frente Amplio'' has used the Uruguayan Referendum system to repeal laws which sought to privatize state-run industries or instate other Neoliberal economic reforms. ''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:
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. EXTERNAL LINK
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