Republican Left (Spain)
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The Republican Left (Spanish: Izquierda Republicana) was a Spanish republican 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's Republican Action, part of Marcelino Domingo's Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party and Santiago Casares Quiroga's Autonomous Galician Republican Organization (ORGA).[2] Its members included José Giral, Victoria Kent and Manuel Azaña
who became the party's leader.
Integrated in the
Largo Caballero government in September 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War
. The IR participated in all republican governments till the end of the civil war.
In exile in Mexico, 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
See also
References
- ISBN 9780521392570.
- ISBN 978-84-9742-942-9.
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