Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party Explained

Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party
Native Name:Partido Republicano Radical Socialista Independiente
Colorcode:
  1. 800080
Leader:Marcelino Domingo
Foundation:24 September 1933
Ideology:Republicanism
Radicalism
Anti-clericalism
Social democracy
Country:Spain
Dissolved:3 April 1934
Colors: Red, yellow and murrey
Split:Radical Socialist Republican Party
Merged:Republican Left
Position:Left-wing

The Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party[1] (PRRSI; Spanish; Castilian: Partido Republicano Radical Socialista Independiente) was a minor Spanish radical political party, created in 1929 after the split of the left-wing of the Radical Socialist Republican Party. Its main leaders were Marcelino Domingo, Álvaro de Albornoz and Ángel Galarza.

History

In 1933, the Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRS), established in 1929 by a left-wing split from the Radical Republican Party (PRR) of Alejandro Lerroux, was suffering from internal divisions.[2] The most leftist factions, led by Marcelino Domingo and Álvaro de Albornoz, were in favour of maintaining an alliance with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (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 importand members, such as Francisco Barnés Salinas and Victoria Kent.[3] An important PRRSI group was established in Alicante, under the leadership of José Alonso Mallol.[4]

The PRRSI only received 0,6% of the votes in the 1933 Spanish general election, only electing three deputies.[5] In the Congress of Deputies, 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.[6]

See also

Notes and References

  1. [:es:Leandro Álvarez Rey|Leandro Álvarez Rey]
  2. Carlos Alberto Chernichero Díaz (2007). El estado integral en la constitución de la II República, Universidad de Cádiz, pág. 28
  3. [:es:Juan Avilés Farré|Juan Avilés Farré]
  4. Mariano García Andréu (1995). Alicante en las elecciones republicanas, 1931-1936, Universidad de Alicante, pág. 51
  5. Juan Avilés Farré (2006). La Izquierda burguesa y la tragedia de la II República, Comunidad de Madrid, pp. 209 y 302
  6. Juan Avilés Farré (2006). La Izquierda burguesa y la tragedia de la II República, Comunidad de Madrid, pp. 322