include UCRI men in the cabinet (which, save for Internal Affairs Minister JuanPalmero, would all be figures close to Balbín). Illia also refused military requests
public service in 1963 as an advisor to President Arturo Illia's minister JuanPalmero. He was elected senator in the March 1973 general elections, defeating
the ministry remained unchanged for over a century until the presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, when it was merged with the Justice portfolio under the administration