Democratic Party (Spain)

The Democratic Party (

In the 1840s, the parliamentary conservatives of the

In this climate the Revolutions of 1848 broke out across Europe, and the Radical wing of the Progressive Party was particularly impressed by the revolution in France that brought about the Second Republic. These examples pushed the Progressives' left-wing to adopt more hardline political demands incompatible with the existing constitutional monarchy, such as republicanism.

In 1849, the left-wing of the

Following the Glorious Revolution of 1868, which deposed Queen Isabella, the party disintegrated due to conflicts between its different factions.

• The cimbrios faction accepted the replacement of the conservative parliamentary monarchy of Isabel II with a more ceremonial monarchy under Amadeo I; known as the cimbrios, they merged with the Radical Democratic Party of Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla.
• The federalist faction, led by party leader Pi i Margall, rejected the monarchy entirely, calling for a democratic republic. They sought cooperation with incipient Spanish
  Federal Republican Party
  .

See also

• Radicalism
• Liberalism and radicalism in Spain
• Parties and factions in Isabelline Spain

References

• Charles J. Esdaile, Spain in the Liberal Age: From Constitution to Civil War, 1808–1939, Blackwell (2000),
  ISBN 0-631-14988-0
  .
• Historia de España, Vicens Vives, 2009,
  ISBN 978-84-316-9037-3