The Autonomous Galician Republican Organization (, ORGA) was a Spanish

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republican and Galician nationalist party in Galicia. It was founded in October 1929 in

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Santiago Casares Quiroga Santiago Casares y Quiroga (8 May 1884 – 17 February 1950) was Prime Minister of Spain from 13 May to 19 July 1936. Casares Quiroga resigned just 48 hours after the beginning of the Spanish coup of July 1936, military insurrection that led to t ...

and Antón Vilar Ponte with the participation of the '' Irmandades da Fala''. In March 1930, it organized the Galician Republican Federation with the support of the

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and the Radical Socialist Republican Party. Represented by Casares Quiroga, it was a signatory of the Pact of San Sebastián. The Radicals left the Galician Republican Federation following the proclamation of the

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although the FRG continued to exist until 1932. The federation won 16 seats in the 1931 election.

was a cabinet minister in republican governments between 1931 and 1933. In 1932, the Argentine section of ORGA led by Ramón Suárez Picallo participated in the foundation of the '' Partido Galeguista'' led by Castelao. Following the dissolution of the FRG in 1932, the ORGA became known as the Galician Republican Party until it merged with the Acción Republicana and the Radical Socialist Republican Party in 1934 to form the Republican Left (''Izquierda Republicana'').

References

*Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): ''O nacionalismo galego''. A Nosa Terra,

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*Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais,

*Castro, X. (1985): ''O galeguismo na encrucillada republicana''. Deputación provincial,

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