The deepest crisis ever experienced by the modern world took place at the end of 2001 - running over a constitutional government, liquefying the savings of lots of people, dissolving the key political parties of the 20th century and involving a huge fraud at international level. Now, it can be perceived that such experience was sterile.

In the middle of this catastrophe, party structure implosion was encouraging, considering that Peronist and Radical figures turned out to be both freaks -similar but different- making a parody of a confrontation that was never such from a philosophical point of view. Both parties contained a bit of everything, and it is a fact that they persisted due to their similarities rather than their differences. Therefore, the dissolution of these parties alternately taking office throughout Argentina’s most disgraceful century had to be celebrated. It was good news.

Leaders’ exile started with Elisa Carrió and Ricardo López Murphy emigrating from the Unión Cívica Radical in search for better associations. After divisions and factions multiplied, Peronism became a supermarket shelf, with plenty of offers to suit all tastes. Traditional Peronists remembered Perón with nostalgia and critized Menem’s “neoliberals,” while Kirchner's 70’s-minded advocators moved forward with a firm step, bearing several unresolved issues which date back to their urban guerrilla times. Intolerance grew, we retraced our steps; privatized companies went back to the State; we moved further away from the civilized world to take shelter under Latin American dictatorships, and we tasted again interventionist economical recipes which impoverished us whenever applied.

However, the search in the political sphere came to an end this week. It was the first time the Peronist March was chanted at a Kirchnerist rally. Smiling and proud, the mass of leaders, governors, ministers and candidates repeated the Peronist maxim to "fight Capitalism." As simple as that: Kirchner and his followers showed they are as Peronist as Menem, Duhalde and Juan Domingo Perón himself ?the protecting cover embracing them all. In another corner of the wide national territory, Carrió and López Murphy joined forces again to honour old party-membership times. It turned out that they had just gone for a walk, but now they are back where they belong.

Six years after so much harm has been done, everything is as it used to be. Peronists on one side and Radicals on the other, pretending to be confronted with each other and offering citizens, once again, the false option of choosing between two evils.

* María Zaldívar is a TV journalist from Argentina and Bachelor of Political Science (UCA, Catholic University of Argentina).