various fractions of radicalism, when he understood that the men of 6 September intended to govern without the consecration of the people, thereby altering the structures democratic institutions for which he had fought for more than forty years. Return to Argentina On 11 April 1931 Alvear embarked for Buenos Aires, where he arrived on 25 April, received at the port by some 6000 people, among whom were General Justo and an aide representing the de facto president José Félix Uriburu. Alvear he met with Uriburu, who told the radical leader that he could regain the presidency, as long as he guaranteed that there were no Yrigoyenists on his list; but Alvear rejected that proposal and began the efforts to unify the radicalism around his figure. On 20 July 1931 a revolution broke out in the province of Corrientes, led by Lieutenant Colonel Gregorio Pomar. Although it was quickly repressed, it gave Uriburu the excuse he was looking for: the government denounced the existence of a terrorist plan and ordered the raid on the radical premises, which forced several political leaders, including Alvear himself, to go into exile from the country . At 10 p.m. on 28 July 1931, he went into exile, one day after having drawn up a manifesto that the dictatorship prohibited him from publishing, and which he therefore had to spread clandestinely. When Yrigoyen died in July 1933, he was recognized as the undisputed leader of radicalism. He governed the party as he had governed the country: respectful of its organic statute, of the district autonomies, of the personality of its members, giving an example of conciliation. 1937 Presidential election The Committee's office of 2 January 1935 decided to lift the electoral abstention. The initiative was approved with 98 votes to 49, and radicalism thus began to run in elections to elect national governors and deputies, some fraudulent and others not. In some electoral contests, radicalism emerged victorious, as was the case with the province of Entre Ríos in the 1935 elections, for which Alvear campaigned for the first time, visiting a large number of towns and giving several speeches a day. But he himself was beginning to be criticized as an accomplice of the Justista electoral regime. For this reason, during 1935 the Yrigoyen and intransigent leaders began to gather, criticizing the Alvearista leadership. But by 1936 Alvearismo led the party with almost no internal resistance,