Salta Identity Party
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Salta Identity Party Partido Identidad Salteña | |
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| Leader | Gustavo Sáenz[1] |
| President | Benjamín Cruz[2] |
| Founded | 2015[3] |
| Membership (2017) |  4,068[4][5] |
| Ideology | Peronism[6] Regionalism[7] Federal Peronism[8] |
| Political position | Center-right[9][10] |
| Colors | Maroon[11] |
| Argentine Chamber of Deputies (Salta seats) | 0 / 7
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| Argentine Senate (Salta seats) | 0 / 3
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| Seats in the Salta Senate | 12 / 23
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| Seats in the Salta Chamber of Deputies | 16 / 37
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The Salta Identity Party (Spanish: Partido Identidad Salteña; PAIS) is a provincial political party in the Salta Province of Argentina. It was founded by Gustavo Sáenz ahead of the 2015 general election; Sáenz has been governor of Salta since 2019.[12]
The party was a member of the United for a New Alternative alliance until 2017, when it aligned itself with Cambiemos.[12] It supported Roberto Lavagna and former Salta governor Juan Manuel Urtubey's 2019 unsuccessful presidential run; since then it has distanced itself from any national alliances.[13][14] The party has representation – but no majorities – in both houses of the Salta provincial legislature. It has no representation at the federal level.
Its logo, adopted ahead of the 2019 gubernatorial elections, is a stylized poncho salteño. The party's use of the traditional poncho led to a legal dispute with an ally party, Salta Unites Us (SNU), that also used a stylized poncho as part of its image.[11] The dispute was settled by the province's Electoral Tribunal, which sentenced in favor of PAIS and ruled both parties could freely use the poncho as their logo.[15]
