The Republican Left () was a Spanish republican party founded in 1934.

History

The party was founded in 1934 following the left's defeat in the 1933 election, by the merger of

Manuel Azaña Manuel Azaña Díaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the la ...

's Republican Action, part of Marcelino Domingo's Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party and

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 ...

's Autonomous Galician Republican Organization (ORGA).Eds. la Granja, José Luis; De Pablo, Santiago (2009). ''«La II República y la Guerra Civil»''. In ''Historia del País Vasco y Navarra en el siglo XX'' (2d edition). Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva. p. 61. . Its members included José Giral, Victoria Kent, and Manuel Azaña, who became the party's leader. Integrated in the Popular Front ahead of the 1936 election. Azaña became President of the Council of Ministers. Following the impeachment of Niceto Alcalá Zamora from the presidency in May 1936, Azaña was elected President, an office he held until his resignation in February 1939. He was succeeded as President of the Council first by Casares Quiroga] and then by Giral. Later, alongside the Republican Union (Spain, 1934), Republican Union, the party was the main component of the Largo Caballero government in September 1936, at the start of the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...

. The IR participated in all republican governments till the end of the civil war. In exile in

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, the IR was the main support of the Republican government-in-exile until it was dissolved in 1959 to found the Spanish Democratic Republican Action. A party taking the name Republican Left was founded in 1977 and has achieved no major electoral success yet.

Notable members

* Ramón Bengaray Zabalza *

* José Giral * Victoria Kent *

References

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History

Notable members

See also

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