Catamarca Popular Movement

Catamarca Popular Movement

The Catamarca Popular Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Popular Catamarqueño) is a provincial political party from the Argentine Province of Catamarca, founded in 1983 by the Ob/Gyn physician Ignacio Joaquín Avalos (1933-2007). From his extensive knowledge of his province and its inhabitants gathered after many years of medical practice and soccer playing, he developed a need to do something for the people and awareness about the problems of the region, that led him to create this independent political party. He was elected to become a member of the low chamber of the Argentinian National Congress for the period 1985-1989, due to an alliance with the Union Cívica Radical. He was candidate for vicegovernor of Catamarca in the elections of 1987.

It is a member of the national Recrear electoral alliance led by Ricardo López Murphy.[citation needed]