Bienio conservador

The “center–right” political parties won the elections in 1933. The new government from the Radical party of Lerroux, with the support of CEDA, stopped the reforms that the previous government had started.

 In 1934, there were new ministers from the CEDA, the left-wing parties did not accept them and they decided to get the power in a non-democratic way so there was the October revolution:

 

1. The revolution succeeded in Asturias, where workers unions occupied the coal mining area, but General Franco, sent by the government put the revolt down.
2. In Catalonia: the autonomous government supported the revolt and Lluis Companys proclaimed the Catalan Republic. After the revolution failed, the Generalitat was dissolved and autonomous government leaders imprisoned.

After these problems the government started a crisis. The ideological differences and the corruption in the Radical party ended the “co-alliance” in the government. New elections were called in February 1936.