Radical Socialist Republican Party

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Radical Socialist Republican Party
Partido Republicano Radical Socialista
PresidentFélix Gordón Ordás
Founded1929 (1929)
Dissolved1934 (1934)
Split fromRadical Republican Party
Merged intoRepublican Union
HeadquartersBarcelona
IdeologyRepublicanism
Radicalism
Anti-clericalism
Social democracy
Political positionLeft-wing
Colours   
Red, Yellow and Murrey

The Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRS;

(PRR, created in 1908, and in decline at the time). Its main leaders were Marcelino Domingo, Álvaro de Albornoz, and Félix Gordón Ordás.

History

PRRS was an important force in the

Prime Minister Manuel Azaña's coalition between Left Republican parties and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE); Álvaro de Albornoz was one of the architects of the secular
legislation passed by the Cortes, and also served as Justice Minister.

The party was shaken by several crises during its existence. In 1932, Juan Botella Asensi left the PRRS to found his own group (IRS, Izquierda Radical-Socialista – Radical-Socialist Left); the following year, it was split over the issue of collaboration with the PSOE: the left-wing, led by Domingo and Albornoz, argued for continued participation in government, while the

right-wing
of Gordón de Ordás favored an agreement with Lerroux's PRR.

Towards the end of 1933, the leftists created the Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRSI), which fused with Republican Action and the Autonomous Galician Republican Organization to create the Republican Left in 1934. The remainder of the party, now dominated by moderates, merged with the Radical Democratic Party of Diego Martínez Barrio into the Republican Union. Both the Republican Left and the Republican Union ended up joining the Popular Front in 1936.

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