Republican Union (Spain, 1934)

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The Republican Union (Uni ón Republicana) was a Spanish republican party formed in 1934 by Diego Martínez Barrio. It came from the merger of several small republican groups, especially Barrio’s Radical Democratic Party and the Radical Socialist Republican Party, which had split from the Radical Republican Party.

In 1936, the party joined the Popular Front and won 38 seats, the fourth-largest number. It helped form a governing coalition with Manuel Azaña’s Republican Left. During the Spanish Civil War it took part in all republican governments but played a minor role after Largo Caballero became prime minister. In exile in Mexico, it supported the Republican government-in-exile.

The party dissolved in 1959 and, together with the Republican Left, founded the Spanish Democratic Republican Action.

Ideology: republicanism, progressivism, social liberalism, anti-clericalism
Position: centre-left
National affiliation: Popular Front
Founded: 1934
Dissolved: 1959
Merged from: Radical Democratic Party; Radical Socialist Republican Party
Merged into: Spanish Democratic Republican Action