"Eso es democracia, señor Presidente": los debates sobre el sistema político provincial en el marco de la convención constituyente de Corrientes, 1960

This article analyses the complex political context in which the 1960 Constitutional Convention took place in the province of Corrientes, during the government of Fernando Piragine Niveiro (1958–1962), a member of the Intransigent Radical Civic Union. Drawing on a study of the reform process, the article examines the debates surrounding democracy, the role of political parties, authoritarianism, and institutionalin stability. The analysis of the main actors,their partisan and ideological spaces, as well as the discussions held during the electoral campaigns and the Assembly itself, reveal show two opposing positions on the provincial political system were structured. In this process, the conservative sectors – comprising Liberals and Autonomists – emerged strengthened