1977 Political Reform Act

The Act for the Political Reform(Law 1/1977, of January 4, for the Political Reform) was adopted on December 18, 1976 by the Francoist Cortes with the support of 435 of the 531 prosecutors (81% in favor) that formed this Cortes, and submitted to a referendum with the participation of the 77,8% of the census and with a 94,17% votes in favor. It had the character of Fundamental Law, being the last one of the Fundamental Laws of the Francoists State.

Seven political associations, constituted thanks to the law of Arias Navarro to support in democracy to the so-called sociological Francoism, they founded on October 9, 1976 a new political party, Alianza Popular (AP). Their leaders were Manuel Fraga, Licinio de la Fuente, Federico Silva, Laureano López Rodó, Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora, Enrique Thomas de Carranza and Cruz Martínez Esteruelas. Both Adolfo Suárez and Torcuato Fernández-Miranda were prepared to dissolve the Spanish Cortes in the event of opposition, since his term had been fulfilled.

After the bill was approved by the Council of Ministers, it was submitted to the National Council of the Movement and was approved on October 16 by 80 votes in favor, 13 against and 6 abstentions. This body prolonged its own dissolution:

... The present bill, which pretends and seeks, preferably, that the popular majority is constituted as a decisive instance of the reform, only incardinating in the current political order can find a source and basis for its legitimate propounding...

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