Daddy, that feels, asks the daughter to Raul Alfonsin. "A lot of responsibility," says the radical candidate, lying in bed after a short nap of 18 minutes would know when the first results of the historic race. The scene is the fifth house Don Torcuato, San Vicente, where he had decided to await the voting data, along with their families and guests during this special period, then a delicious barbecue. It happened 25 years ago, on October 30, 1983.
Alfonsín It was 18 when he invited me for coffee in the park of the fifth, with ears positions, in stories still scarce examination from a portable radio . The candidate is up and walked away responding to a call from a colleague. When he returned a few minutes after the round table that we shared, I gave the first news of the polls. "Raul, is leading by far in Antarctica." He drew a mischievous smile and replied, "It does not matter, hopefully the data of La Matanza."
These were the first hours of my intimacy with Alfonsin and his family and some of his colleagues on that iconic date of a quarter century ago. At dusk, as the numbers of the ballot was indisputable victory of the radical leader, the fifth house was populated by leaders of the UCR associating the victory of President-elect with the triumph of deputies and senators for the new democracy, Jesús Rodríguez, Leopoldo Moreau. Federico Storani, Coti Nosiglia, Mario Losada, Osvaldo Alvarez Guerrero, Adolfo Gaas, next to Vice President Victor Martinez.
was this squad that led a long march, that October 30, along with thousands of activists of the Radical Youth, which has the fifth in San Vicente, caravan moved to the National Committee of the UCR, the constant cry of "Follow, follow, follow the dance to the beat of the drum, democracy forever, Alfonsin's hand."
The chorus is in good health, as it is shown that these 25 years of uninterrupted democracy in fact, account for the longest period of the twentieth and the twenty-first initial. This reporter had the privilege of accompanying the radical candidate in every election campaign since 1982 to the end of October 1983, both in the internal contest against radical candidate Luis Leon, who won outright, as the Peronist candidate, Italo Luder, with 52 percent of the vote.
He knew, for my notes on this day, I accompanied him as a reporter from La Quiaca to Tierra del Fuego, admitted for the more modest towns across the country. "At this point in the campaign, Alfonsin like a snowball, his actions more and more people focus," I said. Luder snob and a smile he replied, "When being driven away in a few days the Peronist machine, that fantasy is over."
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