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Spanish Renovation

Political party

Spanish Renovation
Summary

Political party

FieldValue
native_nameRenovación Española
nameSpanish Renovation
logoRenovacion española logo.svg
logo_size150px
colorcode#008080
leaderAntonio Goicoechea
José Calvo Sotelo
positionFar-right
foundationDe facto: 16 January 1933
De jure: February 1933
dissolved8 March 1937
splitPopular Action
mergedFET y de las JONS
ideologyAlfonsism
Authoritarian conservatism
Traditionalism
Integrism
headquartersMadrid, Spain
flag[[File:Bandera de Renovación Española.svg150px]]
countrySpain

José Calvo Sotelo De jure: February 1933 Authoritarian conservatism Traditionalism Integrism Spanish Renovation (, RE) was a Spanish monarchist political party active during the Second Spanish Republic that advocated the restoration of Alfonso XIII of Spain, as opposed to Carlism. Associated with the Acción Española think-tank, the party was led by Antonio Goicoechea and José Calvo Sotelo. In 1937, during the course of the Spanish Civil War, it formally disappeared after Francisco Franco's merger of the variety of far-right organizations in the rebel zone into a single party.

History

Calvo Sotelo delivering a speech in 1935

The group was formed in January 1933 after Goicoechea and some followers split from Acción Popular and were given Alfonso's approval to form a new party, although from the outset RE maintained good relations with the Carlists and sought to bring them into various anti-Republican conspiracies. Even before the Civil War RE was linked to the Falange, paying it a 10,000 peseta monthly subsidy. RE espoused a kind of authoritarian statist corporatism, particularly marked after Calvo Sotelo took control of the party.

The group was one of the first amongst those involved in conspiracy against the Popular Front government to endorse Franco as overall leader. RE was also closely linked to the military group Unión Militar Española which played an important role in bringing about civil war. During the opening stages of the civil war RE was close to General Emilio Mola, who consulted regularly with the group's leadership.

The assassination of Calvo Sotelo, who was much more personally popular and a better orator than the generally ineffectual Goicoechea, in July 1936 had weakened RE somewhat and before long they became wholly subservient to Franco in an attempt to retain influence for a group that had little popular support. Along with a variety of other far right groups RE disappeared in April 1937 with the formation of the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista. Recognising that his power base was flimsy at best Goicoechea immediately accepted the decree and dissolved RE.

References

References

  1. Saleam, James. (1999). "The Other Radicalism". [[University of Sydney]].
  2. Goicoechea Cosculluela, Antonio. (6 January 1933). "Hacia un frente contrarrevolucionario español".
  3. . (24 February 1933). ["La entidad Renovación Española se constituye"](http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1933/02/24/018.html). *ABC*.
  4. Payne, Stanley G.. (1961). "Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism". Stanford University Press.
  5. González Calleja, Eduardo. (2008). "La violencia y sus discursos: los límites de la "fascistización" de la derecha española durante el régimen de la Segunda República". Ayer.
  6. Martin Blinkhorn, ''Carlism and crisis in Spain, 1931-1939'', CUP Archive, 1975, p. 108
  7. [[Antony Beevor]], ''The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39'', London: Phoenix, 2007, p. 45
  8. Blinkhorn, Martin. (19 June 2004). "Fascists and Conservatives: The Radical Right and the Establishment in Twentieth-Century Europe". [[Routledge]].
  9. [[Paul Preston]], ''Franco'', London: Fontana, 1995, p. 125
  10. Preston, ''Franco'', p. 136
  11. Preston, ''Franco'', p. 155; p. 157
  12. Preston, ''Franco'', pp. 249-50
  13. Beevor, ''The Battle for Spain'', p. 285
  14. Preston, ''Franco'', p. 271
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