# Social and Civic Agreement

The Social and Civic Agreement (Spanish: Acuerdo Cívico y Social, ACyS) was a center-left congressional alliance in Argentina, integrated by the Radical Civic Union (UCR) the Socialist Party (PS) and the Civic Coalition ARI (CC-ARI), which acted as an umbrella national electoral alliance at the last 2009 Argentine legislative elections. The Civic Coalition, which was a founder member of the Social and Civic Agreement, left the alliance on 12 August 2010.

## Background

During the 2008 conflicts between the Argentine Government and the agricultural sector, most factions of the parties that would later ally themselves into the ACyS took a strong stance against the National Government's agricultural policy. Previously, at the 2007 presidential elections, the Civic Coalition and the Socialist Party ran on a joint presidential ticket, and - since 2005 - both parties plus the Radical Civic Union make up the Progressive, Civic and Social Front alliance in Santa Fe Province that won the provincial Governorship on 2 September 2007 for socialist Hermes Binner.

## 2009 legislative elections

The ACyS was composed of the following parties in each Province:
| District | Parties under ACyS umbrella | Foremost candidates | Notes | Results of the 28 June 2009 elections |
| Buenos Aires Autonomous City | Civic Coalition Radical Civic Union | Alfonso Prat Gay Ricardo Gil Lavedra Elisa Carrió | The Socialist Party went on its own in the district. | 19,05% 344.388 votes 3rd place |
| Buenos Aires Province | Civic Coalition Federal Consensus (ConFe) Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Margarita Stolbizer Ricardo Alfonsín Mario Barbieri | | 21,48% 1.555.825 votes 3rd place |
| Catamarca | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Genaro Collantes Oscar Castillo | As the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca governs the Province since 2003. | 38,86% 57.499 votes Winner |
| Córdoba | Civic Coalition New Party Socialist Party | Luis Juez Norma Morandini Gumersindo Alonso | Under the name Civic Front. The Radical Civic Union of Córdoba went on its own. | 27,97% 462.561 votes Winner |
| Corrientes | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Nito Artaza | Under the name Encounter for Corrientes. | 32,75% 141.021 votes 2nd place |
| Chaco | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Pablo Orsolini Alicia Terada | Under the name Front for Everyone | 44,42% 227.006 votes 2nd place |
| Entre Ríos | Civic Coalition Radical Civic Union | Atilio Benedetti Hilda Ré | Socialist Party went on its own. | 35,02% 228.263 votes Winner |
| Formosa | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Ricardo Buryaile María Inés Delfino | | 35,75% 79.366 votes 2nd place |
| Jujuy | Jujuy Popular Movement Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Mario Fiad | Cambio Jujeño party, identified with Support for an Egalitarian Republic (ARI), went on its own. | 30,97% 84.284 votes 2nd place |
| La Pampa | Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Juan Carlos Marino Ulises Forte | As Civic and Social Front of La Pampa. | 35,47% 62.782 votes 2nd place |
| Mendoza | Civic Coalition Federal Consensus (ConFe) Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Ernesto Sanz Laura Montero | As Federal Civic Front. | 48,40% 414.822 votes Winner |
| Neuquén | Civic Coalition Socialist Party | Edgardo Kristensen Beatriz Kreitman | As Social and Civic Agreement (ARI-PS). Radical Civic Union of Neuquén went on its own. | 5,05% 13.805 votes 6th place |
| Salta | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Propuesta Salteña Radical Civic Union | Ricardo Gómez Diez | | 4,86% 23.362 votes 7th place |
| San Juan | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Rodolfo Colombo | | 15,07% 47.836 votes 3rd place |
| San Luis | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Daniel Rodríguez Saá | | 11,94% 22.948 votes 4th place |
| Santa Cruz | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | Eduardo Costa | As Change for Growth. | 42,54% 53.133 votes Winner |
| Santa Fe | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union Communist Party Democratic Progressive Party Solidarity and Equality | Rubén Giustiniani Alicia Ciciliani Silvia Augsburger | As the Progressive, Civic and Social Front it governs the Province since 2007. | 40,60% 662.210 votes 2nd place |
| Santiago del Estero | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | José Luis Zavalía | | 11,07% 33.781 votes 3rd place |
| Tierra del Fuego | Civic Coalition Socialist Party | Leonardo Gorbacz | As Progressive Project. The Radical Civic Union of Tierra del Fuego went on its own. | 9,36% 5.687 votes 5th place |
| Tucumán | Civic Coalition Socialist Party Radical Civic Union | José Cano Juan Casañas | | 15,62% 108.469 votes 2nd place |