''El Liberal'' was a Spanish
liberal newspaper
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published in
Madrid
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between 1879 and 1936. It was one of the leading papers of
Spain under the Restoration.
Between 1890 and 1906, ''El Liberal'' was edited by Miguel Moya (1856–1920), a leading Spanish journalist who would go on to preside the holding company and to found the
Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid, which he would also preside from 1895 to 1920.
In 1901, its holding group, Sociedad Editorial de España, also known as "Grupo El Liberal" or the "Trust", decided to publish specific editions for Barcelona, Sevilla y Bilbao. The
Bilbao edition, particularly, would become especially prominent as a Republican paper, and would shortly afterwards be bought up by its editor,
Indalecio Prieto
Indalecio Prieto Tuero (30 April 1883 – 11 February 1962) was a Spanish politician, a minister and one of the leading figures of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the years before and during the Second Spanish Republic.
Early life ...
,
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At Google Books. Retrieved 7 August 2013. who would go on to become a leading figure in Spanish politics, both as minister in successive governments of the
Second Spanish Republic
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and as president of Spain's
Socialist party
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