Parallel Policy

The politics of the parallels was a decided attempt between the members of the National Civic Union, headed by Bartolomé Miter and the Civic Radical Union, led by Bernardo de Irigoyen to create an opposition that could face the candidacy of Julio Argentino Roca, in the elections of 1898. Both candidates would participate in the elections with the same formula, postulating Miter as president and Irigoyen as vice president. On August 15, 1897, a public event was held in Plaza Libertad, in repudiation of Roca's reelection (who had been president between 1880 and 1886, and was the undisputed leader of the conservative regime).

While this position of parallel formulas was approved by the National Convention of the Radical Civic Union on September 6, 1897, Hipólito Yrigoyen objected, producing a fracture within the UCR: the followers of Bernardo de Irigoyen, will constitute the UCR Moderate, while supporters of Hipólito Yrigoyen will create the uncompromising UCR.

After the elections, and the victory of Roca, the moderates will disappear, absorbed by the National Autonomist Party, or turned to the uncompromising position. The "politics of the parallels", led to the split in the opposition, which would allow Roca to obtain the majority that would place him for the second time in the presidency of the Nation. Sources

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