The Gamacists () were a political faction within the

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led by Germán Gamazo. They split from the party in October 1898 following the Ribot scandal—a controversy involving

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governor and Gamazo's ally Pascual Ribot—which Gamazo attributed to an internal conspiration within the Liberal party to get rid of him as Development minister. Among its members were future prime minister and Conservative leader

Antonio Maura Antonio Maura Montaner (2 May 1853 – 13 December 1925) was Prime Minister of Spain on five separate occasions. Early life Maura was born in Palma de Mallorca, Palma, on the island of Mallorca, he was the seventh child in a family of t ...

, son-in-law of Gamazo, as well as other notorious liberal MPs. After Gamazo's death in 1901, it eventually merged into the Liberal Conservative Party of

Francisco Silvela Francisco Silvela y Le Vielleuze (15 December 1843, in Madrid – 29 May 1905, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician who became Prime Minister of Spain on 3 May 1899, succeeding Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. He served in this capacity until 22 October ...

in 1902.

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