jan 16, 1936 - Formation of the Popular Front

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The Popular Front was a left-wing coalition incited by Manuel Azaña for the purpose of winning the 1936 elections. The Popular Front included: Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Communist Party of Spain (PCE), the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM, independent communist) and the republicans: Republican Left (IR), (led by Azaña) and Republican Union (UR), led by Diego Martínez Barrio. This pact was supported by Galician (PG) and Catalan nationalists (ERC), socialist union Workers' General Union (UGT), and the anarchist trade union, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). The Popular Front won the 1936 elections making left-wing government back into power; they beat the National Font (right-wing).