The defeat in the 1982 war severely damaged the military’s internal cohesion and undermined its support. The authoritarian coalition collapsed, and a new democratizing coalition formed, leading to elections in October 1983. Raúl Alfonsín of the UCR handily won the presidential election with 52 percent of the vote, partly because he and the Radicals represented a quest for democracy and a repudiation of intolerance, violence, and authoritarianism more clearly than the Peronist candidate (Jaunarena 2011). It was the first time that the Radicals had defeated the Peronists when the latter were allowed to run.