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Even before the final returns were in last week, followers of ousted Dictator Juan Perón began talking loudly of their payoff for handing Argentina's presidency to Lawyer Arturo Frondizi (TIME. March 3). Just as quickly, the 49-year-old President-elect began hedging. There was no doubt that Frondizi owed his victory to the exiled strongman; whether it was a collectible debt remained to be seen...
Disciplined Disciples. The vote totals, compared with constituent assembly elections last July, told the story. Last week leftist Radical Frondizi pulled approximately 4,000,000 ballots with Perón's backing. His top opponent, moderate Radical Ricardo Balbin, got 2,500,000. Last July, when Perón's disciples cast more than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots, Balbin beat Frondizi...
...handed Argentina to Frondizi through necessity rather than choice. If the dictator had let his blank-vote order stand, it would have opened the door to odious comparisons between the impressive total he chalked up in July and an almost certainly less impressive total last week. He could not back Balbin, who was likely to carry on the anti-Perón policies of Provisional President Pedro Aramburu. Frondizi, who openly wooed Peronista votes, was the only possible choice...
...victory, Frondizi owed a potentially embarrassing debt to ousted Dictator Juan Perón. In constituent assembly elections last July, Perón ordered his last-ditch followers to vote blank, and they piled up 2,000,000 void ballots. Two weeks ago Perón, now an exile in the Dominican Republic, changed tactics and passed the word to vote for Frondizi. The only apparent reason was that Frondizi had been outspoken in criticism of the provisional government that booted Peron out in 1955. But Perón's move clearly changed the course of the campaign...
...Frondizi's margin swelled, he kept a wary eye on the military leaders who had risked everything to overthrow Perón. With perhaps a faint quiver of the upper lip he announced: "I have no commitments to anyone, and will govern solely for 20,000,000 Argentines...