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The Government started many reforms thanks to Manuel Azaña, leader of the left-wing party Acción Republicana who led the Government until 1933.
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With the proclamation of the Second Republic Alfonso XIII had to go into exile from Spain. -
It was not until the Constitution of 1931 when all Spanish women were available to vote, thanks to the policy Clara Campoamor, who defended the right to vote for women above all else. -
After the elections that were held in June 1931, a republican Constitution was approved, which defined Spain as a "democratic republic of workers". It included freedom of speech and association, the separation of Church and State, universal suffrage to women and the right to divorce.
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When in 1933 the first elections in which women could vote were held, the right-wing parties came out the winners and formed a new government, that tried to eliminate all the reforms initiated in the previous period.
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In October 1934 there was a general revolution organized by anarchists and socialists derived from the mismanagement that the right-wing government was exercising. It was especially important in Catalonia and Asturias.
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It was an electoral coalition created by the main left parties, and whose lider was Manuel Azaña. It was victorious in the last Spanish elections of the Second Republic.
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In February 1936, the third and last democratic general elections of the Second Republic were held in Spain. As a result, they gave a majority to the left-wing coalition called "Frente Popular".
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The Lieutenant José Castillo, Guardia de Asalto and member of the Unión Militar Republicana Antifascista, was assassinated by Falangists. -
Three days after José Castillo's murder an army uprising in Morocco that started as a 'pronunciamento' resulted in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
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