Word: frigerio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political maneuver within the Radical Party. In 1956, after Pern fell, Frondizi split the party into two nearly equal segments-Intransigents and People's Radicals-and became the Intransigents' candidate for President. That he eventually won was largely owing to a shadowy political adviser named Rogelio Frigerio, a successful businessman (he owns a nationwide chain of dry-goods stores) who was once a Communist sympathizer, later cooperated with Per&243;nism. and now presumably stood somewhere in between...
...Frigerio clearly saw that victory would go to whichever Radical faction won the most Perónista votes; he went off to visit Per&243;n. In other elections, the ex-dictator had commanded his supporters to cast blank protest ballots; after Frigerio's visit, he ordered them to vote for Frondizi...