The Conceptions of Political Parties during the First Peronist Goverment: a Study on the Political Parties Act of 1949

Abstract

This paper analyzes the Political Parties Act of 1949, in the attemp of understanding the ideas about the political parties that were held during the first two goverments of Juan Domingo Perón. This was the first legislation enacted by the Argentina National Congress, and one of the first in the world, that sought the regulation of political parties. Our goal is to explain this law in the context in which it was produced. Why did the peronist goverment passed a law on political parties in 1949? We can find three purpuses: to order its own party , to limit the action of the opposition parties and to transfer to the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress the unanimity that the peronist movement has already achiveved in other spheres.