Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 3:07:40 GMT -5
Spain has not been a country very given to consensus. The right has always considered the direction of the State to be its right and competence. Except for brief episodes, such as that of the First Republic, the right representing the great economic powers, the oligarchy formed by the alliance of the large Basque industrialists, the Andalusian landowners and the high civil servants of Madrid with agreements sometimes with the Catalan textile industrialists. , they took over political power apart from the vast majority of Spaniards. This coalition of the ruling classes always had the ideological support of the Church. The Restoration with its model of bipartisan alternation and later when the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera entered into crisis meant the full dominance of the conservative alliance of the dominant classes that finally broke with the advent of the Second Republic.
During this time, the representatives of the right tend, at most, some bridge to the peripheral nationalist right but always excluding parties representing the most popular sectors from the dialogue. The Second Republic means a brief period of time where the subaltern classes that include sectors of the petty bourgeoisie to the working class and the peasantry enjoy some Australia Phone Number moments of access to political power. Not all of the time during the Second Republic was progressive since during the “black biennium” the right once again took over the government until the victory of the Popular Front. The era of the Second Republic was not a period of consensus; on the contrary, the right carried out a harsh confrontation against all the modernizing actions of the republican-socialist governments. Finally, the confrontation ended with the military coup and the establishment of a dictatorship that viciously persecuted its opponents and established four decades of absolute power of the political and economic right and which involved the persecution of all forms of dissidence and the dominance of a regime Francoist endorsed by a national-Catholic ideology.
Franco's death brought about the end of a system that no longer served the purpose of the country's own need for economic development. To resolve the situation, there was a convergence of interests between the most open-minded sectors of the regime and the forces of the fundamentally left-wing democratic opposition. The “Transition” and the Constitution of 78 were the result of a strange episode of consensus in Spanish politics. The main force on the right, the UCD, represented a more modern model capable of dialogue and agreement with the various opposition forces both in relation to economic-social aspects and in the definition of a constitutional political framework that would put an end to the long Franco dictatorship. In the entire modern history of Spain there has not been a more fruitful period of political collaboration between different actors. And it was not an easy time, with a difficult economic and even more political situation. It should be noted that they had to face everything from attempts and attacks by the extreme right to the multiple terrorist attacks that gave wings to the most extreme sectors of the armed forces.
During this time, the representatives of the right tend, at most, some bridge to the peripheral nationalist right but always excluding parties representing the most popular sectors from the dialogue. The Second Republic means a brief period of time where the subaltern classes that include sectors of the petty bourgeoisie to the working class and the peasantry enjoy some Australia Phone Number moments of access to political power. Not all of the time during the Second Republic was progressive since during the “black biennium” the right once again took over the government until the victory of the Popular Front. The era of the Second Republic was not a period of consensus; on the contrary, the right carried out a harsh confrontation against all the modernizing actions of the republican-socialist governments. Finally, the confrontation ended with the military coup and the establishment of a dictatorship that viciously persecuted its opponents and established four decades of absolute power of the political and economic right and which involved the persecution of all forms of dissidence and the dominance of a regime Francoist endorsed by a national-Catholic ideology.
Franco's death brought about the end of a system that no longer served the purpose of the country's own need for economic development. To resolve the situation, there was a convergence of interests between the most open-minded sectors of the regime and the forces of the fundamentally left-wing democratic opposition. The “Transition” and the Constitution of 78 were the result of a strange episode of consensus in Spanish politics. The main force on the right, the UCD, represented a more modern model capable of dialogue and agreement with the various opposition forces both in relation to economic-social aspects and in the definition of a constitutional political framework that would put an end to the long Franco dictatorship. In the entire modern history of Spain there has not been a more fruitful period of political collaboration between different actors. And it was not an easy time, with a difficult economic and even more political situation. It should be noted that they had to face everything from attempts and attacks by the extreme right to the multiple terrorist attacks that gave wings to the most extreme sectors of the armed forces.