Ricardo Balbín
Ricardo Balbín was a notable Argentine politician and a leading figure in the Radical Civic Union (UCR). As a prominent opponent of Juan Domingo Perón and the Peronist movement, he represented a more conservative faction of the UCR and ran against Arturo Frondizi in the 1958 presidential elections, where he was ultimately defeated.
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Balbín led the Unión Cívica Radical del Pueblo, which was seen as a potential beneficiary of the votes from the Peronist movement.
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Ricardo Balbín was a prominent radical politician in Argentina during the 1970s.
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Ricardo Balbín visited María Estela Martínez de Perón to express his condolences after Perón's death.
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Ricardo Balbín was the presidential candidate of the Radical party and a political rival of Arturo Frondizi.
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