The GEN Party originated during the 2007 presidential election process , when a group of leaders of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) of the Province of Buenos Aires , led by Margarita Stolbizer , decided not to abide by that party’s decision to support the presidential candidacy of Roberto Lavagna and establish the electoral alliance An Advanced Nation (UNA). The GEN was first organized as a dissident internal group of the UCR, separating itself from the National Opinion Current , the internal line of radicalism of which they were part. Subsequently, they definitively separated from the UCR to form an independent political party and, as such, joined the Civic Coalition Alliance , together with the ARI . In 2009 they were part of the Civic and Social Agreement , together with the UCR, the ARI and the Socialist Party . In 2011, due to the withdrawal of the ARI and the UCR, the Broad Progressive Front was created , consisting of the GEN, Socialist Party, Free of the South , New Party of Córdoba ,Electoral Instrument for Popular Unity and the Labor and People’s Party , among others. Hermes Binner was the candidate for President of the Nation in the 2011 presidential elections .
