The Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRSI; ) was a minor Spanish

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, created in 1929 after the split of the

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of the

Radical Socialist Republican Party The Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRS; ), sometimes shortened to Radical Socialist Party (PRS; ''Partido Radical Socialista''), was a Spanish radical political party, created in 1929 after the split of the left-wing in Alejandro Lerroux's ...

. Its main leaders were Marcelino Domingo,

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and Ángel Galarza.

History

In 1933, the

(PRRS), established in 1929 by a left-wing split from the

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(PRR) of

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, was suffering from internal divisions. The most leftist factions, led by Marcelino Domingo and

, were in favour of maintaining an alliance with the

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(PSOE), whereas the most conservative groups, led by Félix Gordón Ordás, preferred to re-establish an alliance with Lerroux's PRR. On 24 September 1933, while the PRRS was undergoing its 3rd national congress, the leftists left the party and established the PRRSI: the split attracted three of the PRRS's founders (Domingo, Alboronz and Galarza), alongside 26 deputies and several important members, such as

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and Victoria Kent. An important PRRSI group was established in Alicante, under the leadership of José Alonso Mallol. The PRRSI only received 0,6% of the votes in the

1933 Spanish general election Elections to Spain's legislature, the Cortes Generales, were held on 19 November 1933 for all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes of the Second Spanish Republic. Since the 1931 Spanish general election, previous elections of 1931, a Spanish Const ...

, only electing three deputies. In the

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, the party established a joint group with the Republican Action and the Autonomous Galician Republican Organisation. On 3 April 1934, the three parties merged into the Republican Left.Juan Avilés Farré (2006). ''La Izquierda burguesa y la tragedia de la II República'', Comunidad de Madrid, pp. 322

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History

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