Argentine Presidential Elections, 1993.

Nominee 	Antonio Cafiero 	Fernado de la Rúa 	Álvaro Alsogaray
Date: 30 October, 1993	 	 	
Party: 	
Partido Justicialista
(FREJURE)	Union Civica Radical 	
Union del Centro Democrático
(UCeDé)
Running Mate: 	Jose Manuel de la Sota	Horacio Massaccesi 	Domingo Cavallo
Popular Vote: 	51% 	43% 	4%
Electoral Vote: 	355 	267 	5
Provinces Carried: 	19 	6 + BS. AS Federal District	0
Presidents 	Eduardo Angeloz (UCR) 	After the Elections 	Antonio Cafiero (PJ-FREJURE)
Elections 	1987 	1993 	1999
== Overview ==
After his victory in the 1987 Elections, President Angeloz quickly enacted his campaign promises to enact liberal reforms on the Argentine economy. Some Public Companies, like Aerolineas Argentinas (Airlines) were completely privatized, while others like YPF (Energetic Sector) and Railroad companies were split off into a 51%-49% deal. These policies satisfied the business and corporate sector, which resulted in inflation lowering and the economy stabilizing, but the still Peronist-dominated unions maintained a good deal of influence in decision-making, although they were weakened by 1990, as the 1981 Union Law increased the representation of minorities - like the socialists - on the Syndicates.
Another chief achievement of Angeloz's administration is the establishment of a trade relationship with Chile, culminating with the Argentine-Chilean common market treaty of 1990. The government also opened and forestered commerce and international links with California and Europe.
However, by 1992 a general recession in the World's economy affected the country, which hit Argentina's main trade partners in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing them to rely less on importations, hitting the country's market naturally. Angeloz introduced some measures to combat the crisis, including the creation of a national welfare program especially aimed at schoolchildren and the poorest, which focused on the teaching of life skills, called Si.Ca.Po; it was highly succesful but not enough in the eyes of the Peronist opposition.
Antonio Cafiero, a long time proponent that the Peronist movement needed to renovate and adapt itself to the new democracy, surged forward in 1992 to secure the nomination for the Partido Justicialista, with fellow renovalist De la Sota as his running mate. Cafiero urged a return to the Peronist ideal of Social Justice and the welfare state, while disassociating from the violent sides of the ideology: essentially 'Peronism in a suit and a tie' in Cafiero's own words.
Antonio Cafiero built the Frente Justicialista Renovador (Justicialist Renewal Front, FREJURE) with several smaller parties, like the Partido Intransigente and the Nationalist-Constitutionalist Movement.
The UCR's canditate, Senator Fernando de la Rúa, proposed a continuation of Angeloz's policies, claiming that the crisis was 'only a bump on the road' but failed to bring it anything new. In short, democratic continuism was De la Rúa's campaign promise, using the violent past of Peronism in his ads, although most were rejected as too agressive.
Finally, the elections of October 30th, 1993 gave Peronism its first victory in the Post-Dictatorship Era, creating a new Movement within the Movement itself. Cafiero was inaugurated on December 10, 1993.
== Fourth biggest parties. ==
Partido Justicialista (Center-left, Peronist) Antonio Cafiero - De la Sota
Union Civica Radical (Centrist) De la Rúa - Massaccesi
Union del Centro Democrático (Right, Conservative) Alsogaray - Cavallo
Movement for Dignity and Independence (Right-Wing Nationalism) Enrique Day - Alejandro Biondini