The Intransigent Radical Civic Union (, UCRI) was a

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. The UCRI developed from the centrist

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(UCR) in 1956, following a split at the party's convention in Tucumán between the UCR's progressive faction, led by

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, and its conservative faction, led by Ricardo Balbín, which renamed itself "People's Radical Civic Union" (, UCRP). Receiving the endorsement of the exiled populist leader

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four days before the February 1958 general elections, UCRI presidential candidate Frondizi defeated UCRP presidential candidate Balbín by 17% and the party enjoyed a narrow majority in

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. Following President Frondizi's forced resignation at the hands of the military, who objected to his political concessions towards

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and his close relations with

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, the UCRI President of the

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, José María Guido, was appointed

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. A proposed Popular Front uniting banned Peronists, the UCRI and others dissolved ahead of the July 1963 general elections, when

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Governor Oscar Alende developed objections to the inclusion of conservatives in the alliance. Frondizi, others in the UCRI and Perón instructed their supporters to cast blank ballots, leading to their highest incidence in the history of Argentine national elections. Governor Alende ran on the UCRI, but was unable to overcome the boycott, leading him to narrowly lose to UCRP candidate Arturo Illia, who was considered more centrist than Balbín. Afterwards, Frondizi and his chief economist while in office, Rogelio Julio Frigerio, left the UCRI in August to establish the Integration and Development Movement (MID), whose platform centered on economic growth. In 1972, following discussions between dictator Alejandro Agustín Lanusse and Balbín looking to allow general elections in 1973, but at the same time avoid a Peronist victory, the

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officially awarded the name "Radical Civic Union" to the UCRP, forcing the UCRI to dissolve itself, after which a majority of UCRI affiliates (including Alende) founded the

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as a continuation, while a minority joined the MID.

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