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The Republican faction (Spanish: Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction (Bando leal) or the Government faction (Bando gubernamental), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion. [1]
The rebellion was crushed by the Spanish Navy and the Spanish Republican Army, the latter using mainly Moorish colonial troops from Spanish Morocco. [ 8 ] In 1935, after a series of crises and corruption scandals, President Alcalá-Zamora , who had always been hostile to the government, called for new elections, instead of inviting CEDA, the ...
Allegory of the First Spanish Republic (1873) Republicanism in Spain is a political position and movement that believes Spain should be a republic.. There has existed in Spain a persistent trend of republican thought, especially throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, that has manifested itself in diverse political parties and movements over the entire course of the history of Spain.
The Radical Republican Party (Spanish: Partido Republicano Radical), sometimes shortened to the Radical Party, was a Spanish Radical party in existence between 1908 and 1936. Beginning as a splinter from earlier Radical parties, it initially played a minor role in Spanish parliamentary life , before it came to prominence as one of the leading ...
Spanish politics, especially on the left, was quite fragmented: on the one hand socialists and communists supported the republic but on the other, during the republic, anarchists had mixed opinions, though both major groups opposed the Nationalists during the Civil War; the latter, in contrast, were united by their fervent opposition to the ...
Radical Republican Party (Partido Republicano Radical) and allies + [nb 3] 10.59% 42 Liberal Republican Right (Derecha Liberal Republicana) and allies + 4.39% 8 Liberal Democratic Republican Party (Partido Republicano Liberal Demócrata) and Supporters of the Republic 1.05% 4 Gallician Independents 0.78% 5 Other Republican Independents 0.74% 2
The Popular Front was formed in 1936 by a coalition of left-wing republican parties. The Popular Front's founding manifesto condemned the actions of the conservative-led government, demanding the release of political prisoners detained after November 1933, the re-hiring of state employees who had been suspended, fired, or transferred "without due process or for reasons of political persecution ...
The AR was founded in 1925 under the name Acción Política ("Political Action") by Manuel Azaña and José Giral. Political Action became a political party in 1930 under the name Republican Action. The party was anticlerical, and supported decentralization, agrarian reform and military reform. [1]