The formation of the Spanish Democratic Party: chronicle of a foretold conflict?

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Published 18-10-2011
Florencia Peyrou Tubert

Abstract

The formation of the Spanish Democratic Party in 1849 has been traditionally considered as a unification of three diverse forces —republicans, democrats and socialists— which, because of the mentioned heterogeneity, ended up giving place to terrible disputes and, finally, to the division of the Party. This article points out that, on the contrary, in a first moment the limits between these labels were diffuse and that, despite the undeniable divergences that characterized this political group, it existed a shared political and social sensibility. The division of the party, when it took place, derived more from a historical process full of contingencies than from the previous existence of a plurality of positions and projects that carried inevitably the seeds of discord.

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