''El Liberal'' was a Spanish liberal

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published in

Bilbao Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Provinces of Spain, province of Biscay and in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the List o ...

between 1901 and 1937. Originally a local edition of the

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El Liberal ''El Liberal'' was a Spanish liberal newspaper published in Madrid 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 ...

'', it was later 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. Less radi ...

. In 1913 the circulation of the paper was 17,000 copies. The paper was sold to the Basque industrialist Horacio Echevarrieta in 1916. Estornés Zubizarreta, Idoiabr>"Partido Republicano Federal"
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