The Republican Union ( es, Unión Republicana) was a Spanish republican party founded in 1934 by Diego Martinez Barrio. It was formed as a result of a merger of several small republican parties, including notably Diego Martinez Barrio's Radical Democratic Party founded in May 1934 by a split from Alejandro Lerroux's Radical Party in protest at the latter's alliance with the right-wing CEDA. Integrated in the

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ahead of the 1936 election, the party won 38 seats becoming the fourth largest party. It formed a governing coalition with

Manuel Azaña Manuel Azaña Díaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Re ...

's Republican Left. Though it participated in all republican governments during the

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, it played a minor role starting under

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's government. In exile in

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, it was the main support of the Republican government-in-exile until it was dissolved in 1959 to found the Spanish Democratic Republican Action along with the Republican Left.

Bibliography

*Nigel Townson. ''The Crisis of Democracy in Spain: Centrist Politics Under the Second Republic, 1931-1936.'' Sussex Academic Press. 2000. pp. 2–3. *Beevor, Antony. ''The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939.'' Penguin Books. 2006. p. 456. {{Authority control 1934 establishments in Spain 1959 disestablishments in Spain Defunct liberal political parties Defunct political parties in Spain Liberal parties in Spain Political parties disestablished in 1959 Political parties established in 1934 Political parties of the Spanish Civil War Progressive parties Radical parties Republican parties in Spain Social liberal parties

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