Juntas Españolas was a

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political party in

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that was created in 1983 after a call had been issued in the now-defunct newspaper ''

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'' by the newspaper's director, Antonio Izquierdo. The group also followed the failure and self-dissolution of the

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.Las Juntas Españolas promovidas por 'El Alcázar' inician su primer congreso.
El País, 22 JUN 1985. The group intended to renew and modernize the message of the far right in Spain by abandoning some of the most reactionary positions (for example, accepting

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). The group dissolved and integrated with the Alianza Democrática Nacional, which later became

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References

Rafael Ángel Nieto-Aliseda Causo; ''La extrema derecha en la Transición: Juntas Españolas y El Alcázar''. Aportes: Revista de historia contemporánea, ISSN 0213-5868, ISSN-e 2386-4850, Year nº 29, Nº 86, 2014, pages 177-206.
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