Oscar Eduardo Alende (6 July 1909 – 22 December 1996) was an
Argentine
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politician who founded the
Intransigent Party.
Alende was born in
Maipú,
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...
. He studied medicine at the
University of La Plata, where he led the student union, and completed his medical studies at the
University of Buenos Aires in 1933. He became head of gastro-intestinal surgery at Rawson Hospital, and a member of the Argentine Surgical Academy. He was co-founder of the Argentine Committee of Assistance to
Republican Spain.
In 1948 Alende became a provincial legislator in Buenos Aires Province for the
Radical Civic Union
The Radical Civic Union ( es, Unión Cívica Radical, UCR) is a centrist and social-liberal political party in Argentina. It has been ideologically heterogeneous, ranging from social liberalism to social democracy. The UCR is a member of the So ...
(UCR), heading the UCR block from 1950. In 1952 he became a deputy in the
Argentine Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies ( es, Cámara de Diputados de la Nación), officially the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress ( es, Congreso de la Nación). It is made up of 257 ...
, serving until its dissolution in 1955.
Alende had joined the breakaway
Intransigent Radical Civic Union (UCRI). In 1958 he was elected Governor of Buenos Aires Province and served until 1962. Alende became the leader of the UCRI following the 1962 overthrow of President
Arturo Frondizi (who broke with the party), and stood as UCRI candidate for president in the
1963 elections. In 1972 he founded the Intransigent Party, the military having banned the use of the name UCRI. He stood once again for president in
1973
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on behalf of the Popular Revolutionary Alliance.
After the return of democracy in
1983
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, Alende became president of the Intransigent Party and stood again for president. He was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1985, and served in that capacity until his death in 1996.
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Biographyby the Intransigent Party
1909 births
1996 deaths
People from Buenos Aires Province
Argentine people of Galician descent
Radical Civic Union politicians
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Argentine surgeons
Governors of Buenos Aires Province
Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province
Candidates for President of Argentina
20th-century surgeons
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