Eduardo Macaluse

[1] In 1999 he was elected as a National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province from the Frente's broader front, Frepaso, as part of the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education which took the Presidency with Fernando de la Rúa.

In April 2001, Macaluse was one of a group of Frepaso deputies who pulled out of the Alliance block in Congress, criticising the government of President De la Rúa and particularly the appointment of Domingo Cavallo as Economy Minister.

[2] In June 2001, Macaluse and three of his colleagues joined the new ARI congressional block (then 'Argentines for a Republic of Equals') led by Elisa Carrió, which was attracting centre-left dissidents from the ruling coalition and other parties.

However, some on the left of ARI, including Macaluse, were angered by Carrió reaching out to centre-right figures such as Patricia Bullrich and María Eugenia Estenssoro.

Others who left ARI were Carlos Raimundi, Leonardo Gorbacz, Delia Bisutti, Nelida Belous, Verónica Venas, Emilio García Méndez, Lidia Naim and María América González.