Federal Democratic Republican Party (Spain)
연방민주공화당 (스페인)
The Spanish federalist republican party founded just after the September Revolution of 1868 as the continuation of the Democratic Party of 1849. Francisco Pi y Margall was its leading theorist, and its strongholds lay in Catalonia, Andalusia and the Mediterranean regions. It was a pillar of the First Republic (1873–1874), and in the constituent elections of the Second Republic in 1931 it won 16 seats.
In depth
The Federal Democratic Republican Party’s forerunner, the Democratic Party, was one of the three groups that made the 1868 revolution against Isabella II. At three assemblies in Madrid in October and November 1868 the Democrats chose a federal republic to replace the monarchy and changed their name, while a minority favouring a “democratic monarchy” left. In the municipal elections of December 1868 the federal republicans won some twenty mayoralties of provincial capitals, and federal newspapers, associations and clubs spread across the country.
The proclamation of the First Republic on 11 February 1873 split the party between Pi y Margall’s legalist line and the “intransigents”. Having all but disappeared in 1905–1910 and then been rebuilt, the Federal Democratic Republican Party won 16 seats in the constituent elections of the Second Republic on 28 June 1931, among them Pi y Margall’s son Joaquín Pi y Arsuaga, and in June 1933 José Franchy Roca became Minister of Industry and Commerce in Manuel Azaña’s third government. The sex reformer Hildegart Rodríguez was active in it after leaving the PSOE.