Democratic Reform (Spain)
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Democratic Reform
Reforma Democrática |
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| Abbreviation | RD |
| President | Manuel Fraga Iribarne |
| Secretary-General | Carlos Argos |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Dissolved | 1977 |
| Merged into | People's Alliance |
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Post-Francoism Spanish nationalism Canovismo |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| National affiliation | People's Alliance |
Democratic Reform (Spanish: Reforma Democrática, RD) was a conservative and Spanish nationalist political party in Spain. RD was founded by a group of various personalities, that came from the moderate and technocratic wing of the Franco regime, and participated in the process of constitution of People's Alliance.
Under the Law of Political Associations approved by the Francoist Cortes Españolas in 1974, which, for the first time, authorized the creation of structures of political participation (political associations), as long as they were loyal to the principles of the Movimiento Nacional. Different moderate sectors of the regime were organized under the leadership of Manuel Fraga Iribarne, in order to form a conservative political group oriented to a limited reform of the Franco system.
With that end, the Cabinet for Guidance and Documentation (Godsa) was created in Madrid. GODSA published the documents: Libro Blanco para la Reforma Democrática and Llamamiento para una Reforma Democrática. Both documents formed the basis for RD, that was registered in the Registry of Political Associations of the Interior Ministry in October 1976, as a political association.
In December of that same year (1976) the First National Congress of RD, which elected Manuel Fraga Iribarne as its president and Carlos García Argos as the general secretary, was held.
In parallel with the deployment of Democratic Reform, Manuel Fraga Iribarne established contacts with other, relatively, moderate members of the Franco regime, including former ministers and Laureano López Rodó and Federico Silva Muñoz. These contacts, culminating in the creation of the People's Alliance, divided the members of RD, some of which, as Gabriel Cisneros, left the project in January to protest the prospect of integration with other groups of the Francoist right.
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