Representar la democracia en dictadura: los partidos políticos en Argentina en los albores de la transición

This article discusses the period between 1980 and 1983 and aims to rebuild the process that precedes the democratic opening that took place on October 10, 1983 in Argentina. The objective is to show the semantics that were condensed around the dichotomy democracy/dictatorship and that after the military defeat in Malvinas was constituted as an inescapable reference of the Argentine political space. To this end, we investigated the conceptions that guided the representative practice of political parties, focusing primarily on the Radical Civic Union and the Peronist Party.