Dereita Galeguista (''Galicianist/Galician Nationalist Right'', in English language) was a right-wing

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party active in the final months of the Second Spanish Republic. The origin of this short-lived party was the opposition of the Catholic and conservative sectors of the Partido Galeguista to potential agreements with

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parties to enter the left-wing Popular Front. In May 1935, a group of militants Partido Galeguista in Pontevedra, headed by

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left the party in protest against the policy of pacts with the

, and created a new organization known as Dereita Galeguista. In February 1936, and due to the formal incorporation of the Partido Galeguista to the Popular Front,

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and other seven relevant

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members of the party left the PG. In Santiago de Compostela Mosquera Pérez and Manuel Beiras García also joined Dereita Galeguista. In its founding manifesto the organization declared itself as

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, democratic, republican, cooperative and social-christian. After the start of the Spanish Civil War,

and some other militants joined the Nationalists, due to their Catholic ideology. Other militants opposed the Nationalists, like

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or Manuel Beiras García.

References

* Bernardo Máiz, ''Galicia na II República e baixo o franquismo'', Vigo, 1988. * Beramendi, X.G. and

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(1996): ''O nacionalismo galego''.

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, Vigo * Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais, Vigo {{Galician nationalism , state=collapsed Political parties in Galicia (Spain) Galician nationalism