page_title: New Encounter
section_title: Ideology
hierarchical_section_title: New Encounter / Ideology
caption_attribution_description: Español: Columna de Nuevo Encuentro el 24 de marzo de 2013, en Buenos Aires.
context_page_description: Encounter for Democracy and Equality, more commonly known as New Encounter is a kirchnerist political party in Argentina founded in 2004 by then-mayor of Morón, Martín Sabbatella. The party now forms part of the Frente de Todos, the ruling coalition supporting President Alberto Fernández.
  From 2009 to 2015, the party was aligned with the Communist Party and the Solidarity Party in a front called New Encounter, from which the EDE took its current common name.
context_section_description: At the time of the party's foundation, Argentine media covering it and Sabatella himself described it as a "progressive" group, modelling itself after the Uruguayan Broad Front.
  During his time in Congress, Sabbatella voted selectively in favor and against the Front for Victory government's proposed bills, and initially refused to explicitly align New Encounter with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her supporters in Congress. However, following Fernández de Kirchner's landslide victory in the 2011 presidential election, Sabbatella declared the party to be "[like] another leg of the kirchnerist table", meaning the party would officially become part of the government-aligned bloc without "losing its own identity".
caption: New Encounter supporters in the 2013 Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice march in Buenos Aires.
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