Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Wanda ya gaji gado mai wahala daga magabata na soja, shugabancin Shugaba Raúl Alfonsín ya kasance kusan an bayyana shi ta hanyar bashin waje na mulkin kama karya na karshe na Argentina. Alamun bayyanuwa a cikin shirin Alfonsín na 1985 na Austral don daidaita tattalin arziƙi ya kashe ƙungiyar sa ta Radical Civic Union (UCR) mafi rinjaye a cikin majalisar wakilai (mazabar majalisa) da kuma tsakanin gwamnonin 22 na ƙasar a cikin zaɓen tsakiyar watan Satumbar 1987. Fuskantar dakarun soji da ke adawa da shari'o'i game da cin zarafin 'yan Adam da suka gabata
kuma hauhawar hauhawar farashin kaya, shugaban ya gabatar da zabuka da watanni biyar, yanzu an tsara shi a ranar 14 ga Mayu, 1989. Dukkanin manyan jam'iyyun biyu sun gudanar da taron kasa a watan Mayun 1988. UCR ta zabi Gwamnan Córdoba Eduardo Angeloz, amintacce, zaɓaɓɓen zaɓi kuma mafi shahararren adadi na UCR wanda ba shi da alaƙa da Shugaba Alfonsín wanda ba a san shi ba. A cikin damuwa, duk da haka, Carlos Menem, gwamnan lardin La Rioja mai nisa da ƙarancin jama'a, ya kwace takarar Jam'iyyar Justicialist daga dan takarar da ke da matsala, Gwamnan lardin Buenos Aires Antonio Cafiero, mai tsara manufofi kusa da wanda ya kafa 'yan adawa, marigayi Juan Perón. Rashin nasarar Cafiero ya samo asali ne daga adawa da kungiyar kwadago ta CGT ga kungiyarsa ta Peronist Renewal; Babban mai ba da shawara kan harkokin siyasa na Alfonsín, Ministan Cikin Gida Enrique Nosiglia, a nasa bangaren, ya ga yadda Menem ya yi fice a matsayin dama ga UCR mai gwagwarmaya.