to Yrigoyen came to obstruct several of the initiatives that emerged from the Executive Power, either through discussions or by withdrawing from the premises to avoid giving a quorum. In this context, in January 1925 President Alvear closed the extraordinary sessions by decree, in view of the fact that legislative activity was almost nil. 1928 election The Radical Civic Union was divided into two political parties as the presidential elections of 1928 approached: on the one hand, the followers of Yrigoyen, called "personalistas", promoted the leader himself as a candidate for president of the nation together with Francisco Beiró; On the other hand, the UCRA presented the Leopoldo Melo-Vicente Gallo formula, while the conservatives led by Julio A. Roca decided to abstain and support the antipersonnelists. Yrigoyen's victory in the 1928 elections was overwhelming: with 62% of the votes, he was again elected president. When Alvear went to transfer command to him on 12 October, his supporters began to threaten him, shouting "¡traitor! ”, at which Alvear pounced on them ready to start a fight; but some people held him back to avoid a pitched battle. Alvear tried to shorten distances with Yrigoyen, and visited him in December 1928, after several years without seeing the caudillo. Later life Once his government ended, Alvear settled in 1930 in Paris, a city that he was passionate about personally. Installed in Europe, his relatives sent him letters from Argentina explaining the chaotic situation in which the country's politics was, such as the deteriorated figure of Hipólito Yrigoyen. This is how he learned about the coup d'état by José Félix Uriburu. This fact had not surprised him, since the economic crisis of 1929 and the lack of reaction on the part of an elderly and ill Yrigoyen had rapidly deteriorated his power. During the period from 1928 until the coup occurred in 1930, Alvear was informed of the Argentine political situation only through the numerous letters sent to him by his friends - in most cases from the anti-personalists most opposed to Yrigoyen. - which for the most part described to him a much more chaotic situation than it really was. He made stern public statements about the personalist deviation from radicalism and about the character of the radical third government; He returned to the country under the impulse of duty, to put his personal influence at the service of the regrouping of the