By Martin Thomas
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-11-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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identified himself with the Peronist tradition: "After Yrigoyen (the Radical leader of 1916-30), after Peron, Raul Alfonsin.
But the two parties did strike a different note in their rhetoric. Alfonsin was almost alone among leading Argentine politicians to criticise Galtieri's war in the Falklands at the time, and now calls it a 'lunatic adventure.' He calls for the islands to be incorporated into Argentina (like the Peronists), but with much more stress on negotiation.
And, according to the Paris daily Le Monde, 'To the alternative of a political nature posed fascism" , the Peronists reply with a more economic and geostrategic alternative,, » "national unity or dependence.
Voters seem to have been not so much attracted to the parties as repelled by the military. And that made Alfonsin, with his stress on internal reform, better able to gain support than the more nationalist Peronists. • Besides, the Peronists were internally divided, and discredited by the last period of Peron-