election results: Senate - percent of vote by bloc or party - FV
45.1%, FJ 17.2%, UCR 7.5%, other 30.2%; seats by bloc or party - FV
14, FJ 3, UCR 2, other 5; Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by
bloc or party - FV 29.9%, UCR 8.9%, ARI 7.2%, PJ 6.7%, PRO 6.2%, FJ
3.9%, other 37.2%; seats by bloc or party - FV 50, UCR 10, ARI 8, PJ
9, PRO 9, FJ 7, other 34

Judicial branch:
Supreme Court or Corte Suprema (the nine Supreme Court judges are
appointed by the president with approval by the Senate)
note: the Supreme Court currently has two unfilled vacancies, and
the Argentine Congress is considering a bill to reduce the number of
Supreme Court judges to five

Political parties and leaders:
Affirmation for an Egalitarian Republic or ARI [Elisa CARRIO];
Front for Victory or FV [Nestor KIRCHNER]; Interbloque Federal or IF
(a broad coalition of approximately 12 parties including PRO);
Justicialist Front or FJ [leader NA]; Justicialist Party or PJ
(Peronist umbrella political organization); Radical Civic Union or
UCR [Gerardo MORALES]; Republican Proposal or PRO (including Federal
Recreate Movement or RECREAR [Ricardo LOPEZ MURPHY] and Commitment
for Change or CPC [Mauricio MACRI]); Socialist Party or PS [Ruben
GIUSTINIANI]; Union For All [Patricia BULLRICH]; several provincial
parties

Political pressure groups and leaders:
Argentine Association of Pharmaceutical Labs (CILFA); Argentine
Industrial Union (manufacturers' association); Argentine Rural
Confederation or CRA (small to medium landowners' association);
Argentine Rural Society (large landowners' association); business
organizations; Central of Argentine Workers or CTA (a radical union
for employed and unemployed workers); General Confederation of Labor
or CGT (Peronist-leaning umbrella labor organization);
Peronist-dominated labor movement; Piquetero groups (popular protest
organizations that can be either pro or anti-government); Roman
Catholic Church; students

International organization participation:
ABEDA, AfDB, Australia Group, BCIE, BIS, CAN (associate), CSN, FAO,
G-6, G-15, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA,
IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO,
ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NSG, OAS,
OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMOVIC, UNTSO, UNW