Word: justicialista
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been forced into exile or imprisoned by Perón-were willing to endure the five-hour meeting (in which Perón talked for an hour). Ricardo Balbín, whose Radical party is the second largest in Argentina after Perón's Justicialista party, had been hooted and cursed as he entered the old man's home for a preliminary meeting. But on leaving, he remarked calmly that Peronistas would probably have received the same kind of welcome had they attended a Radical party meeting. "We have spoken of the responsibility of political parties...
...politics. In part it is the remainder of the political movement founded by Perón after he first assumed power in 1946; it is also a disparate fusion of factions united primarily by their opposition to a succession of right-wing military governments. Perón's Justicialista Party includes neofascists, far-left urban guerrillas called montoneros (bushfighters) and unionists. If united, it could probably deliver as much as 50% of the vote in next year's general election...
After six years of military dictatorship, Argentines will finally have a chance to choose a civilian government in presidential elections scheduled for next March. But even before the campaign warms up, it is turning into a standoff. A faction of the Justicialista Party of former Dictator Juan Perón has nominated him for President, and he is the dominant candidate, even though he is now 76 and has lived in exile for 17 years. Voters who remember the old days of free spending and populism under Perón are ready to vote for him in numbers large enough...
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