Democracy, Freedom and Social Justice: Reviewing the Electoral Campaign of the Democratic Union in the 1946 Presidential Elections

Abstract

This article discusses some of the considerations made about the origins of the anti-peronism. Particularly, revises the characteristics that assumed the bond between anti-peronism political parties and the democratic notion during presidential elections in 1946. Its thesis is that social problematics were not absent when the Unión Democrática was formed. However, not only was indicated the factual presence of such references but also was examined how notions of democracy, freedom and social justice constituted a central plot senses in the formation of the anti-peronism political identity.