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The Spanish Labyrinth: an account of the social and political background of the Spanish Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-04314-X. Payne, Stanley G. (2006). The collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: origins of the Civil War. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-11065-0. Preston, Paul (2006).
The need for unity was the constant theme of the campaign fought by the CEDA and the election was presented as a confrontation of ideas, not of personalities. The electors' choice was simple: they voted for redemption or revolution and they voted for Christianity or Communism.
English: graph showing distribution of seats in the Spanish parliament following the elections of 1931, 1933 and 1936. Size of the rectangles is proportionate to the number of seats obtained.
Soon, Azaña lost parliamentary support and President Alcalá-Zamora forced his resignation in September 1933. The subsequent 1933 election was won by the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA). However the President declined to invite its leader, Gil Robles, to form a government, fearing CEDA's monarchist sympathies.
The victory of conservative factions in the 1933 elections was blamed on women, and their voting practices in that election. They were viewed as being controlled by the Church. [9] Basque women were able to go to the polls in a regional autonomy referendum 15 days before the national elections on 5 November 1933.
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The Right won the elections of 1933 following an unsuccessful uprising by General José Sanjurjo in August 1932, who would later lead the coup that started the civil war. Events in the period following November 1933, called the "black biennium", seemed to make a civil war more likely.
Prior to the 1933 campaign they joined Renovacion Española in TYRE, [41] an electoral co-ordination bureau; [42] half-heartedly supported, [43] the initiative was barely revived in 1936. [44] The result was that in 1933 and 1936 all cases of Carlists joining multi-party lists [ 45 ] were agreed on provincial level; except Navarre, the Carlists ...