Word: nistas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong Frondizi was became clear last week with the first election returns. With 86 congressional seats and 14 provincial governorships at stake, the Per&243;nistas won 44 seats and 9 provinces, plus Jujuy, where they ran in alliance with the Christian Democratic Party (see map). Actually, Per&243;nistas got only 35% of the vote, but their opponents were split. In the balloting, Frondizi's own Intransigent Radical Party polled 540,000 more votes than during the last national election in 1960. Yet so great was the Per&243;nista landslide that Frondizi's party lost...
...votes were counted, Argentina's bitterly anti-Per&243;n military went into a state of shock. Having once ousted Old Soldier Per&243;n, and now deeply fearful of their ex-commander's vengeance and his irresponsibility, they were determined to forestall any Per&243;nista comeback. Through Navy Secretary Admiral Gaston Clement, some of the officers demanded the immediate resignation of Frondizi and his replacement with a military junta. But cooler heads, mostly in the army and air force, proposed a compromise: Frondizi could stay, but with his power sharply curtailed...
...decision for Argentina. The nation was dismayed at events, and tense, yet on all sides there was a curious unwillingness to push to the barricades. Frondizi made no emotional appeals to the people; the army kept most of its troops safely inside their barracks. Even the Per&243;nista leaders, not wanting a full test of strength that would result in their forceful suppression, behaved themselves. Per&243;nistas trumpeted their "triumph of the people" but the mobs were ordered to stay home, and they obeyed...
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...
Frondizi's prescription of austerity 'was austere only by comparison with Per&243;nista days. Subsidies were lifted from food, the peso was freed to seek a realistic level, wage increases were tied to productivity...