The Autonomous Galician Republican Organization ( gl, Organización Republicana Galega Autónoma, ORGA) was a Spanish

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republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...

and

Galician nationalist Galician nationalism is a form of nationalism found mostly in Galicia, which asserts that Galicians are a nation and that promotes the cultural unity of Galicians. The political movement referred to as modern Galician nationalism was born at t ...

party in Galicia. It was founded in October 1929 in

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Santiago Casares Quiroga Santiago Casares y Quiroga (8 May 1884, in A Coruña, Galicia – 17 February 1950, in Paris) was Prime Minister of Spain from 13 May to 19 July 1936. Biography Leader and founder of the Autonomous Galician Republican Organization (ORGA), a Ga ...

and

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with the participation of the ''

Irmandades da Fala The Irmandades da Fala (English: "Brotherhood of the Language") was a Galician nationalist organization active between 1916 and 1936. It was the first political organization of Galicia that used only the Galician language. Origin Aurelio Ribalt ...

''. In March 1930, it organized the Galician Republican Federation with the support of the

Radical Republican Party The Radical Republican Party ( es, 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 ...

and the

Radical Socialist Republican Party Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRS; es, Partido Republicano Radical Socialista), sometimes shortened to Radical Socialist Party (PRS; ''Partido Radical Socialista''), was a Spanish radical political party, created in 1929 after the split of ...

. Represented by Casares Quiroga, it was a signatory of the Pact of San Sebastián. The Radicals left the Galician Republican Federation following the proclamation of the

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although the FRG continued to exist until 1932. The federation won 16 seats in the 1931 election.

was a cabinet minister in republican governments between 1931 and 1933. In 1932, the Argentine section of ORGA led by Ramón Suárez Picallo participated in the foundation of the '' Partido Galeguista'' led by Castelao. Following the dissolution of the FRG in 1932, the ORGA became known as the Galician Republican Party until it merged with the Acción Republicana and the

in 1934 to form the Republican Left (''Izquierda Republicana'').

References

*Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): ''O nacionalismo galego''.

A Nosa Terra ''A Nosa Terra'' (in en, Our Land, italic=yes) was a Galician newspaper in Galician language, first founded in 1907 in A Coruña, Spain. It has been published in different periods. Periods 1907 - 1908 ''A Nosa Terra'', was a bilingual Span ...

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*Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais,

*Castro, X. (1985): ''O galeguismo na encrucillada republicana''. Deputación provincial,

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