1 agos 1933 año - Election of 1933

Descripción:

After its formation earlier in the same year, CEDA was the largest party of the Cortes and won. The moderate left and center, because of the division with Republicans and Socialists, lost the 1933 elections. Many women voted for center-right but the right-wing won the election, not because of women's suffrage but because there was a general political rightward shift. The left Republicans and Socialists attempted to pressure Niceto Alcalá Zamora, the president of the Republic, into canceling the election results. They did not contest the ballot results but simply rejected the center-right's victory; they argued the Republic was a leftist project and so only leftist parties should be allowed to govern. CEDA insisted it rejected violence and would follow the rules of the republic. CEDA had insisted on making constitutional changes to the republic that would make it much more conservative and Catholic in nature, which the political left equated to fascism. Radical Republicans and CEDA worked together to undo most of Azana's reforms during the Bienio Negro.