Republicanism in Spain

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Republicanism in Spain is a political position and historical movement that advocates the reestablishment of a republic in Spain in place of the Spanish monarchy. Spanish republicanism has not been a single doctrine or organisation. Since the nineteenth century it has included federal, unitary, liberal, democratic, anticlerical, social-reformist, socialist and regional nationalist currents. These currents have shared opposition to dynastic monarchy, but have differed over the territorial organisation of the state, the relationship between religion and public life, social reform, and the means by which a republic should be achieved. Spain has been governed as a republic during two periods: the First Spanish Republic from February 1873 to December 1874, and the Second Spanish Republic from April 1931 to April 1939. The latter was defeated in the Spanish Civil War and survived institutionally only in exile until the Spanish transition to democracy. Under the constitutional parliamentary monarchy...

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