Popular Front (Spain)
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Popular Front (Spain) was a left-wing electoral coalition formed in the 1930s that united various republican, socialist, and communist forces to contest elections during the turbulent years leading up to the Spanish Civil War.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Popular Front (Spain) canonical | 5 |
| Popular Front government | 1 |
| Popular Front government (1936–1937) | 1 |
| Popular Front government (1936–1939) | 1 |
| Popular Front government in Spain | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electoral alliance
ⓘ
political coalition ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
mass mobilization of workers and peasants
ⓘ
polarization of Spanish politics before the Civil War ⓘ |
| coalitionPartner |
Communist Party of Spain
ⓘ
Izquierda Republicana ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Left (Spain)
Republican Union (Spain) ⓘ Spanish Socialist Workers Party ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Syndicalist Party (Spain) ⓘ Workers' Party of Marxist Unification ⓘ various regional nationalist parties ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| dissolvedAsConsequenceOf | victory of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War ⓘ |
| electoralOutcome | won the Spanish general election of February 1936 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1939 ⓘ |
| formedInPeriod | Second Spanish Republic ⓘ |
| goal |
defeat right-wing forces in the 1936 elections
ⓘ
defend the Second Spanish Republic ⓘ implement social and political reforms ⓘ |
| hasPart | regional Popular Front lists in various Spanish provinces ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentAfterVictory | Manuel Azaña ⓘ |
| historicalContext | interwar period ⓘ |
| ideology |
communism
ⓘ
left-wing politics ⓘ republicanism ⓘ socialism ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Popular Front strategy promoted by the Communist International ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Nationalist faction (Spain) ⓘ |
| opposedPolicy |
clerical influence in politics
ⓘ
fascism in Spain ⓘ monarchism in Spain ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas
ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups
|
| partOf | European Popular Front movements of the 1930s ⓘ |
| politicalPosition | left-wing ⓘ |
| politicalSystemContext | parliamentary republic ⓘ |
| precededBy | left republican and socialist electoral blocs of early 1930s Spain ⓘ |
| resultedIn | formation of a Popular Front government in 1936 ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Spanish Civil War
ⓘ
Spanish general election, 1936 ⓘ |
| startTime | 1936 ⓘ |
| supportedPolicy |
agrarian reform
ⓘ
amnesty for political prisoners ⓘ restoration of Catalan autonomy ⓘ secularization of the state ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| usedElectoralSystem | proportional representation in multi-member districts ⓘ |
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Collège Jean-Zay
this entity surface form:
Popular Front government (1936–1939)
this entity surface form:
Popular Front government (1936–1937)
this entity surface form:
Popular Front government in Spain
this entity surface form:
Popular Front government