Editing Eva Perón (section)

===Vice-presidential nomination===
[[File:Cabildo Abierto del Partido Peronista - 1951.jpg|thumb|left|A crowd of an estimated two million gathers in 1951 to show support for the Juan Perón–Eva Perón ticket.]]

In 1951, Eva Perón was chosen by Juan Perón as a candidate for vice-president. This move was not welcomed by some of Juan Perón's more conservative allies, to whom the possibility of Eva Perón becoming president in the event of Juan Perón's death was not acceptable.<ref name="Fraser"/>{{page needed|date=October 2015}}

Eva was immensely popular, particularly among working-class women. The intensity of the support she drew from the people is said to have surprised Juan Perón. The wide support Eva Perón's proposed candidacy generated indicated to him that Eva Perón had become as important a figure of the Peronist party as Juan Perón himself was.<ref name="Fraser 143">{{harvp|Fraser|Navarro|1996|p=143}}.</ref>

[[File:Renunciamiento historico evaperon.jpg|thumb|Perón embraces her husband during the 1951 joint ticket rally, unable to accept popular calls that she run for vice-president.]]
On 22 August 1951, the aligned labor unions held a massive rally that they called the "Cabildo Abierto", a reference to the first local government of the [[May Revolution]] of 1810. The Peróns addressed the crowd from the balcony of a large scaffolding set up on the [[Avenida 9 de Julio]], several blocks away from the [[Casa Rosada]], the official government house of Argentina. Overhead were two large portraits of Eva and Juan Perón. It has been claimed that "Cabildo Abierto" was the largest public display of support in history for a female political figure.<ref name="Quieroz 14" />

[[File:Eva.renunciamiento.1951.ogg|thumb|left|Perón's renunciation speech (in Spanish). Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110712164914/http://www.radionacional.com.ar/audios Radio Nacional. RTA. Argentina]]]
She declined the invitation to run for vice-president. She said that her only ambition was that in the large chapter of history to be written about her husband, the footnotes would mention a woman who brought the "hopes and dreams of the people to the president", a woman who eventually turned those hopes and dreams into "glorious reality". In Peronist rhetoric, this event has come to be referred to as "The Renunciation", portraying Evita as having been a selfless woman in line with the Hispanic myth of ''[[marianismo]]''.