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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]
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 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]
Other Republican Independents 0.74% 2 Republican Party of the Center (Partido Republicano de Centro) [nb 4] 0.56% 2 Republican Action (Acción Republicana) + 0.47% – Republican Catalan Party (Partido Catalanista Republicà) + 0.31% 1 Agrarian Party 3.41% 17 Catholic-Fuerista Coalition 3.59% 15 National Action (Acción Nacional) 2.34% 7
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 ...
The military defeats and the worsening of the international environment unleashed political tensions between the various forces that supported the Republic, leading to the crisis of March–April 1938, the second major internal crisis of the Republican faction, almost a year after the first one (the events of May 1937). [69]
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 ...
The Radicals and their supporters had also shifted to the right. Abstentionalism hindered Socialist and Republican candidates. Overall, the political system in Spain had changed dramatically since the last election. [22] The failure of the Spanish left was also partially attributable to the 1933 electoral law.