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With its passage, Spain became the first Latin country to offer universal suffrage. [8] The inclusion was supported by Article II of the new constitution, which provided equality under the law for both sexes. [8] Montseny became Spain's first female minister, serving as the Minister of Health and Public Assistance from September 1936 to May ...
The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was approved by the Constituent Assembly on 9 December 1931. It was the constitution of the Second Spanish Republic (founded 14 April 1931) and was in force until 1 April 1939. This was the second period of Spanish history in which both head of state and head of government were democratically elected.
All laws stemming from EC institutions are directly applicable in Spain in virtue of the Treaty of the European Union, ratified by Spain and thus part of the internal Spanish law. Given that the treaties have a higher hierarchical position compared to laws, in the case of conflict the Treaties will be given primacy.
Men and women lined up to vote in Toledo during the 1977 Spanish general elections. Reproduction of the poster of the Referendum for the Law of Political Reform of 1976. 1978 Spanish constitutional referendum ballot. The first national elections held in Spain following the death of Franco in 1975 took place in 1977.
Between the time the law went into effect at the beginning of September 1981, and the end of 1984, only slightly more than 69,000 couples had availed themselves of the option of ending their marriages, and the number declined in both 1983 and 1984. There were already more divorced people than this in Spain in 1981 before the law took effect. [5]
The Law for Political Reform (Ley de Reforma Política) of 1977, last of the Fundamental Laws and passed after Franco's death, started the Spanish transition to democracy. Constitution of 1978: 1978–present Constitutional monarchy Parliamentary democracy with bicameral, elective parliament. Currently in force.
Spain in the 19th century was a country in turmoil. Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a massively destructive "liberation war" ensued.Following the Spanish Constitution of 1812, Spain was divided between the 1812 constitution's liberal principles and the absolutism personified by the rule of Ferdinand VII, who repealed the 1812 Constitution for the first time in 1814, only to be forced ...
One of the first laws implemented allowed women to vote and to run for political office. This happened with Article 36 of the Constitution of the Second Republic, and came into force on 1 October 1931. The first women to win seats in Spain's Cortes were Clara Campoamor Rodríguez, Victoria Kent Siano and PSOE aligned Margarita Nelken y Mansbergen.