Peronist Movement

1942

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Military Coup
Special points
of interest:
The Pernist
Movement that
changed all
The new
president
Uprising after an
important death
The movement
continues

Peronist, Spanish
Peronista, in Argentine
politics, a supporter of
Juan Peron, a member
of the Justicialist Party
(Partido Justicialista; PJ),
or an adherent of the
populist and
nationalistic policies
that Peron espoused.
Peronism has played an
important part in
Argentinas history
since the mid-1940s.

The Peronist movement arose

as the personal following of
Col. Juan Peron. In 1943,
after participating in a
successful military coup,
Peron became Argentinas
minister of labour, a position
through which he enacted
various social measures to
help the countrys growing
class of urban industrial
workers. Gaining the
admiration of the

masses, Peron called for

the state to take a
leading role in the
economy to ensure
cooperation between
businesses and labour.
In 1946 he was elected
to the presidency with
the strong support of
many lower-middleclass citizens and of the
countrys industrialists.
After Peron was
overthrown and exiled
in 1955 by the military,
the leaderless Peronist
movement was
weakened by factional
conflicts, since it was
composed of many
divergent elements,
from left-wing trade
unionists to right-wing
authoritarian
nationalists.
Nonetheless, the
movement remained
the main civilian
contender for power in
Argentina.