The Republican Union () was a
Spanish republican party founded in 1934 by
Diego Martinez Barrio.
It was formed as a result of a merger of several small republican parties, most notably
Diego Martinez Barrio's Radical Democratic Party and the
Radical Socialist Republican Party, both of which had split away from the more moderate
Radical Republican Party of
Alejandro Lerroux.
Integrated into the
Popular Front ahead of the
1936 election, the party won 38 seats becoming the fourth largest party. It formed a governing coalition with
Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña Díaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the la ...
's
Republican Left. Though it participated in all republican governments during the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...
, it played a minor role starting under
Largo Caballero's government.
In exile in
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
, it was the main support of the Republican government-in-exile until it was dissolved in 1959 to found the Spanish Democratic Republican Action along with the
Republican Left.
See also
*
Republican Union (Spain, 1893)
*
Republican Union Party (Spain)
Bibliography
*Nigel Townson. ''The Crisis of Democracy in Spain: Centrist Politics Under the Second Republic, 1931-1936.'' Sussex Academic Press. 2000. pp. 2–3.
*Beevor, Antony. ''The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939.'' Penguin Books. 2006. p. 456.
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