Popular Front (Spain)
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Popular Front
Frente Popular |
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| Leader | Manuel Azaña |
| Founded | January 1936 |
| Dissolved | 1939 |
| Ideology |
Progressivism Republicanism Secularism Anti-fascism Communism (faction) Liberalism (faction) Social democracy (faction) Socialism (faction) |
| Political position |
Centre-left to Far-left Catch-all |
| Colors | Red |
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The Popular Front (Spanish: Frente Popular) in Spain's Second Republic was an electoral coalition and pact signed in January 1936 by various left-wing political organisations, instigated by Manuel Azaña for the purpose of contesting that year's election.
The Popular Front included the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Communist Party of Spain (PCE), the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM, independent communist) and the republicans: Republican Left (IR), (led by Azaña) and Republican Union (UR), led by Diego Martínez Barrio. This pact was supported by Galician (PG) and Catalan nationalists (ERC), socialist union Workers' General Union (UGT), and the anarchist trade union, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). Many anarchists who would later fight alongside Popular Front forces during the Spanish Civil War did not support them in the election, urging abstention instead.
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