The Republican Left ( es, Izquierda Republicana) was a
Spanish
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republican
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party founded in 1934.
History
The party was founded in 1934 following the left's defeat in the
1933 election, by the merger of
Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña DÃaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Repu ...
's
Republican Action, part of
Marcelino Domingo's
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 ...
and
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 ...
's
Autonomous Galician Republican Organization
The Autonomous Galician Republican Organization ( gl, Organización Republicana Galega Autónoma, ORGA) was a Spanish left-wing republican and Galician nationalist party in Galicia. It was founded in October 1929 in A Coruña by Santiago Casares Q ...
(ORGA).
[De la Granja, José Luis; De Pablo, Santiago (2009). ''«La II República y la Guerra Civil». Historia del PaÃs Vasco y Navarra en el siglo XX'' (2d edition). Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva. p. 61. .] Its members included
José Giral
José Giral y Pereira (22 October 1879 – 23 December 1962) was a Spanish people, Spanish politician, who served as the 75th Prime Minister of Spain during the Second Spanish Republic.
Life
Giral was born in Santiago de Cuba. He had degree ...
,
Victoria Kent
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1891 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician.
Biography
Born in Málaga, Spain, Kent was affiliated to the Radical Socialist Republican Party and came to fame in 1930 for defending â ...
and
Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña DÃaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Repu ...
who became the party's leader.
Integrated in the
Popular Front
A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".
More generally, it is "a coalition ...
ahead of the
1936 election, the party won 87 seats becoming the third largest party while Manuel Azaña obtained the office of President of the Council of Minister. Following the impeachment of
Niceto Alcalá Zamora from the presidency in May 1936, Azaña was elected president, an office he held until his resignation in February 1939. He was succeeded as President of the Council first by
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 then by
José Giral
José Giral y Pereira (22 October 1879 – 23 December 1962) was a Spanish people, Spanish politician, who served as the 75th Prime Minister of Spain during the Second Spanish Republic.
Life
Giral was born in Santiago de Cuba. He had degree ...
. Later, alongside the
Republican Union, the party was the main component of the
Largo Caballero
Francisco Largo Caballero (15 October 1869 – 23 March 1946) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist. He was one of the historic leaders of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and of the Workers' General Union (UGT). In 1936 and 19 ...
government in September 1936, at the start of the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...
. The IR participated in all republican governments till the end of the civil war.
In exile in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, the IR was the main support of the Republican government-in-exile until it was dissolved in 1959 to found the Spanish Democratic Republican Action. A party taking the name
Republican Left was founded in 1977 and has achieved no major electoral success yet.
Notable members
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Ramón Bengaray Zabalza
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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 ...
*
José Giral
José Giral y Pereira (22 October 1879 – 23 December 1962) was a Spanish people, Spanish politician, who served as the 75th Prime Minister of Spain during the Second Spanish Republic.
Life
Giral was born in Santiago de Cuba. He had degree ...
*
Victoria Kent
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1891 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician.
Biography
Born in Málaga, Spain, Kent was affiliated to the Radical Socialist Republican Party and came to fame in 1930 for defending â ...
*
Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña DÃaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Repu ...
See also
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Liberalism and radicalism in Spain
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