Ricardo Balbín
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Ricardo Balbín was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union, for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, a
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Balbín in prison, 1950.
Balbín with Perón in 1972.
General elections were held in Argentina on 23 February 1958. Voters chose both the President and their legislators and with a turnout of 90.6%.
Ricardo Balbín
…with Arturo Frondizi and Oscar Alende as the main exponents, and Balbín's Popular UCR (UCRP). The UCRP chose Balbín as presidential candidate for the 1958 elections, with Santiago del Castillo for vice-president. Arturo Frondizi won with support from factions of the outlawed Peronists. In 1959 the UCRP chose Arturo…
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Businessman Rogelio Julio Frigerio, who secured Perón's endorsement of Frondizi in 1956, thus determining the outcome of the elections.
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