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The Broad Front (Frente Amplio in Spanish, also going by Encuentro Progresista) is a Uruguayan political party. It was founded as a joining of more than a dozen fractured leftist parties and movements in 1971. The party was declared illegal during the coup d'état of 1973 and emerged again in 1984 when democracy was restored in Uruguay. Frente Amplio is led by Tabaré Vázquez. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT and the cooperative housing movement.Fente Amplio is the largest party in Uruguay, controlling 40% of parliament and the government of Montevideo, a city with half the Uruguayan population. In October, 2004, Vázquez won the presidency of Uruguay as the Frente candidate.
While not in power, Frente Amplio has used the Uruguayan referendum system repeal laws privatizing state run industries and other neoliberal economic reforms.
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