Died former President Raúl Alfonsín.

At the age of 82 years died, former President Raúl Alfonsín (Raul Alfonsin), reported AFP. Several years ago Alfonsín was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Raúl Alfonsín, who headed the Civic Radical Union, served as President of Argentina from 1983 to 1989. Alfonsín was the first in many years, the president of Argentina, came to power as a result of the general democratic elections.

Since 1976, when Argentina took place in a military coup, until 1983 held the post of President of the representatives of the junta. However, once in 1982, Argentina lost the war for the British Falkland Islands, the military regime was overthrown, and were declared the general presidential election, which won Alfonsín.

While Alfosina as president established a national commission investigating the crime of a military regime and the junta gather evidence of the involvement in the killing of thousands of Argentines. General Jorge Rafael Videla, served as President from 1976 to 1981, during the reign of Alfonsín was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1989, Alfonsín lost the presidential election of Carlos Saul Menemu, who soon after coming to power had pardoned members of the junta, including General Videla. The large-scale investigation into the crimes junta was resumed in 2003, when Menem, Nestor Kirchner replaced - the husband of current President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Alfonsín until 1993 was a radical leader of the Civil Union. In 2001 he was elected senator from Buenos Aires, but a year later was forced to resign because of illness. Last Alfonsín to appear in public in October 2008 at a ceremony installing his bust in the House of Government, participated in a ceremony hosted Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.