 While Menem and de la Rúa simply reduced their funding, Kirchner has effected an "ideological cleansing", removing a large portion of the top ranks and replacing them with younger leaders with an explicit commitment to preserve human rights and submit to the decisions of the civilian government.A grouping of left-leaning parties and dissident Peronists –the Front for a Country in Solidarity ("Frente por un País Solidario", FREPASO)– emerged in the 1990s as a serious third party, coming second in the 1995 Presidential elections.In August 1997 the UCR and FREPASO joined in a coalition called Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (informally Alianza, "Alliance").