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    Manuel Azaña Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnwel aˈθaɲa]; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of...
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    Courts in the so-called "Azaña Law") and the subsequent laws approved by the Courts at the proposal of the Minister of War Manuel Azaña, a position that he...
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    years of constitutional government, known as the Reformist Biennium, Manuel Azaña's executive initiated numerous reforms to what in their view would modernize...
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    Cortes dismissed the President on 7 April 1936 and elected Manuel Azaña to the position. Azaña was detested by the right, and Zamora's removal was a watershed...
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    in 1934 to lead the repression of the Asturias revolt. In May 1936, Manuel Azaña became the second and last president of the Second Spanish Republic....
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    Organization (ORGA). Its members included José Giral, Victoria Kent and Manuel Azaña who became the party's leader. Integrated in the Popular Front ahead...
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    organizations during the Second Spanish Republic. The alliance was led by Manuel Azaña. In Catalonia and the modern-day Valencian Community, the coalition was...
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    led by Alejandro Lerroux, and his Radical Republican Party. Manuel Azaña would replace Manuel Portela Valladares, caretaker, as prime minister. The electoral...
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    October 1933 and 26 December 1933 and was briefly appointed again by Manuel Azaña on 19 July 1936 - two days after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War...
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    Azaña was in Barcelona that day, and the Lerroux-CEDA government tried to implicate him. He was arrested and charged with complicity. In fact, Azaña had...
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    provisional War Minister Manuel Azaña however was a major setback for Franco and provoked his first clash with the Spanish Republic. Azaña found Franco's farewell...
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    state, after the approval of the new Constitution in December 1931. Manuel Azaña remained as Prime Minister, head of the government, until 12 September...
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  • first president was Niceto Alcalá Zamora, who presided until 1936, when Manuel Azaña took over. The new constitution established freedom of speech, freedom...
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    Republic, headed by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, and in that of his successor Manuel Azaña. Caballero attempted to improve the conditions of landless labourers...
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    purposes. However historian Salvador de Madariaga, himself a supporter of Manuel Azaña, and an exiled vocal opponent of Francisco Franco asserted that: "The...
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    Manuel Azaña y Díaz la dimisión del cargo de Presidente del Consejo de Ministros; y nombrando Presidente del Consejo de Ministros a D. Manuel Azaña y...
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  • founded in 1925 under the name Acción Política ("Political Action") by Manuel Azaña and José Giral. Political Action became a political party in 1930 under...
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    Prime Minister of Spain from 10 May 1936 to 13 May 1936 due to former PM Manuel Azaña being elected as President of the Republic. He was also a lawyer and...
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    serving the new president, Manuel Azaña. According to some sources during the coup of July 1936 Casado personally decided that Azaña be relocated from his...
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    Second Spanish Republic and Republican faction and sought to depose Manuel Azaña, including the Falange, the CEDA, and two rival monarchist claimants:...
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  • Look up azaña in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Azaña may refer to: Jeremías Azaña (born 2000), Argentinian squash player Manuel Azaña (1880–1940), Spanish...
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    Alcalá-Zamora. As Minister of Public Works in the 1931–1933 government of Manuel Azaña, he continued and expanded the policy of hydroelectric projects that...
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    remained with the monarchist cause. When he clashed with Prime Minister Manuel Azaña over the military reforms, he was replaced by General Miguel Cabanellas...
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    Ortega y Gasset, Manuel Azaña, Gabriel Gancedo, Fernando de los Ríos, the Marquis of Palomares del Duero, Leopoldo Palacios, Manuel García Morente, Constancio...
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    led by Santiago Casares Quiroga, and of the President of the Republic, Manuel Azaña. On the other hand, the assassination of Calvo Sotelo and its circumstances...
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    Companys asked Manuel Azaña, who happened to be in Barcelona during the events, to lead a newly-proclaimed Spanish Republican government, but Azaña rejected...
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    left-wing leader Manuel Azaña as Prime Minister. The election gave a majority in the Cortes and thus, the Government, to a coalition between Azaña's party and...
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    chemistry in the University of Salamanca. He founded Acción Republicana with Manuel Azaña. During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera he conspired against...
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    was part of the coalition of leftists that supported the reforms of Manuel Azaña's government during the first biennium (1931–1933), during which time...
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    during the socialist-republican biennium (1931–1933) in the government of Manuel Azaña, Casares’ personal friend. He was reelected to the Cortes in 1933, and...
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