The first government of

Carlos Arias Navarro Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquis of Arias-Navarro (11 December 1908 – 27 November 1989) was one of the best-known Spanish politicians during the Francoist regime. Arias Navarro was a moderate leader in the last phase of Francoism and the be ...

was formed on 4 January 1974, following the latter's appointment as

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Francisco Franco on 29 December and his swearing-in on 2 January, as a result of

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's assassination on 20 December 1973. It succeeded the Carrero Blanco government and was the

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from 4 January 1974 to 12 December 1975, a total of days, or . Arias Navarro's first cabinet was the last to serve under Franco, was made up of members from the different factions or "families" within the

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: mainly the

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party—the only legal political party during the

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—the

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and a number of aligned- nonpartisan figures from the civil service, to be joined later on by the legally-recognized

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(UDPE). In the first cabinet since 1957 without the presence of any Opus Dei member, Arias Navarro went on to form a mostly bureaucratic government.

Council of Ministers

The

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was structured into the offices for the

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, the three

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and 19 ministries.

Notes

References

Bibliography

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External links

Governments. Dictatorship of Franco (18.07.1936 / 20.11.1975)
CCHS–CSIC (in Spanish).
Governments of Franco. Dictatorship Chronology (1939–1975)
Fuenterrebollo Portal (in Spanish).

Lluís Belenes i Rodríguez History Page (in Spanish).
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