Word: frondizi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moderate, pro-government People's Radicals drew 2,128,072 votes. Lawyer Arturo Frondizi's Intransigent Radicals, who had ardently wooed the Peronista vote, even promising to dissolve the Assembly if they gained control, trailed with 1,839,545. Juan Perón, in his time a popular tyrant who once polled close to 5,000,000 votes, drew fewer than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots in spite of the well-organized, well-financed campaign he had conducted from his Venezuelan exile...
...network, are being urged by clandestine leaflets to cast blank ballots in all elections until their hero returns. A hodgepodge of smaller parties, whose leaders fear a licking at the polls, has also come out for blank ballots. Meanwhile, the powerful Radicals faction, headed by Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, is hoping to gain control of the assembly, vote its immediate dissolution and call for general elections. The People's Radical Party, which split off from the Frondizi group last winter, is the biggest party backing Aramburu on constitutional reform...
Peronista Key. The key to the election lies with more than 2,000,000 onetime supporters of Peron who do not number themselves among the Peron-controlled hard core. If they yield to Frondizi's frantic wooing, he will gain control of the assembly and defeat constitutional reform, which will help him toward his eventual goal: the presidential office with all its powers intact. Hopefully for the Aramburu program, these voters have been drifting over to Frondizi in smaller numbers than he expected. On the other hand, if the halfhearted ex-Peronistas adopt the hard core's self...
Ever Louder Tones. The most striking evidence of change was a radio speech. For the first time since Perón achieved the presidency in 1946, the government let an opposition politico speak to his countrymen on the air. Over a nationwide network. Radical Party Leader Arturo Frondizi declared that Perón's announced program of pacification "must not be a new form of submission. We want peace, but not at the price of our freedom." Boldly, he called an end to the state of internal war decreed by Peron...
...brave Argentine voices protested publicly against the expropriation. "Liberty is on trial-not the fate of a newspaper alone, but the fate of the country itself is in balance," cried opposition Deputy Arturo Frondizi. He was howled down...