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Republican Left Izquierda Republicana | |
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| Leader | Manuel Azaña |
| Founded | 1934 (1934) |
| Dissolved | 1959 (1959) |
| Merger of | AR PRRSI ORGA |
| Headquarters | Madrid (1934–1939) Mexico City (1939–1946) Paris (1946–1959) |
| Newspaper | Política |
| Ideology | Republicanism Anti-clericalism Anti-fascism Social liberalism Social democracy Radicalism[1] |
| Political position | Centre-left[2] |
| National affiliation | Popular Front (1936–39) |
| Colors | Red, yellow and murrey |
TheRepublican Left (Spanish:Izquierda Republicana) was aSpanishrepublican party founded in 1934.
The party was founded in 1934 following the left's defeat in the1933 election, by the merger ofManuel Azaña'sRepublican Action, part ofMarcelino Domingo'sIndependent Radical Socialist Republican Party andSantiago Casares Quiroga'sAutonomous Galician Republican Organization (ORGA).[3] Its members includedJosé Giral,Victoria Kent, and Manuel Azaña, who became the party's leader.
Integrated in thePopular Front ahead of the1936 election. Azaña became President of the Council of Ministers. Following the impeachment ofNiceto Alcalá Zamora from the presidency in May 1936, Azaña was elected President, an office he held until his resignation in February 1939. He was succeeded as President of the Council first by Casares Quiroga] and then by Giral. Later, alongside theRepublican Union, the party was the main component of theLargo Caballero government in September 1936, at the start of theSpanish Civil War. The IR participated in all republican governments till the end of the civil war.
In exile inMexico, the IR was the main support of the Republican government-in-exile until it was dissolved in 1959 to found the Spanish Democratic Republican Action. A party taking the nameRepublican Left was founded in 1977 and has achieved no major electoral success yet.
Both Popular Fronts comprised inherently contradictory liberal and leftist forces, so that the French coalition began to break down within only a year, and the same thing would doubtless have occurred in Spain had not the Civil War intervened, despite the radical liberal position of Azaña's Izquierda Republicana.
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