architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, for the Popular Action party. The general and former president Manuel A. Odría, for his national Odrist Union party. The elections were held on June 10, 1962. At the end of the count no candidate had obtained the one-third of the votes as required by the Political Constitution at the time, necessitating that Congress choose among those who had obtained the most votes, which were the three mentioned above. The situation required a pact between at least two of these three main opponents. Unusually for some, the pact was made between the two staunch enemies, Hague and Odría, remembering that the latter would assume the presidency of the republic. But the government was accused of having committed fraud in some departments, so the Joint Command of the Armed Forces presided over by General Ricardo Pérez Godoy demanded that the government annul the elections. On July 18, 1962, the guard of the Government Palace was absent and at 3:20 a.m., an armored division commanded by Colonel Gonzalo Briceño Zevallos stormed the palace and arrested the president and his companions, who foresaw a possible coup d'état. On the same day he was transported to Callao's naval arsenal and embarked on the Callao BAP (anchored on San Lorenzo Island) where he was detained until the end of his term on July 28. On August 1 he voluntarily left the country and settled in Paris. A military governing board was formed that overturned the elections and convened new ones. It has been said that the real motive of this institutional coup of the Armed Forces was the anti-aprism still deeply rooted among the military, who did not want the APRA to rule, even in co-government. Later life Prado left Peru and settled again in Paris. He made a brief visit to his homeland as he commemorated the centenary of the Battle of Callao (May 2, 1966), when he was paid a tribute for being the son of President Mariano Ignacio Prado, who drove to Peru during the last stage of the conflict with Spain in 1865–66. He died in the French capital the following year. He was buried in the Presbítero Maestro Cemetery, next to his father. Images See also Ecuadorian–Peruvian War References Manuel 1889 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Peruvian businesspeople Peruvian people of Spanish descent Peruvian people of Basque descent Presidents of Peru Presidents of the Central Reserve Bank