The Radical Democratic Party (, PDR), later known as the Republican Reformist Party (, PRR), was one of the

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political parties that contended for power during the reign of Amadeo I (reigned 1870–73) and the

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(1873–74), opposing the Constitutional Party.

Background

The party was established in 1871, after the division of the Progressive Party following the death of General

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. The left wing of the party, along with the ''cimbrios'', monarchist faction of the Democratic Party led by Cristino Martos, organised themselves as a party under the leadership of Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla. The party disintegrated after the 1874 restoration of the monarchy, fleeing its members to left-wing monarchist parties or to republican parties. Ruiz Zorrilla and his supporters established the Progressive Republican Party, while the faction of Martos joined the

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of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. In 1876, the party remnants were reorganized as the Republican Reformist Party by Nicolás Salmerón.

References

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Background

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