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[[Categoría:Elecciones en España]]
[[Categoría:Elecciones durante la Segunda República Española]]
In 1930, Madrid was the capital city of Spain, and the second biggest city with a population of 952,832 (following Barcelona, which had just over a million inhabitants). Although many electoral processes had been carried out in Spain since the end of the former regime and the arrival of the liberal state, the years of the Second Republic consisted of an exceptional period in which political activity obtained an unusual strength. Following the title of one of the best known paintings of Stanley G. Payne, the Second Republic represented the ‘first Spanish democracy’.(↑ Payne Stanley G., (1995), La primera democracia española: la Segunda República, 1931-1936, Barcelona: Editorial Paidós, ISBN 84-493-0128-9. Publicado originalmente en 1993 como Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936. La reseña en la Casa del Libro indica lo siguiente:
El significado de la Segunda República española, eclipsado en gran parte por la sangrienta y catastrófica guerra civil que la siguió, fue en el fondo, y sin lugar a dudas, el de una entidad histórica por derecho propio, uno de los mayores intentos nacionales de democratización y reforma política habidos en Europa entre las dos guerras mundiales. Empeñado en nadar contra la corriente del fascismo europeo de la época, y situado en el marco histórico del liberalismo español, el régimen se esforzó por establecer las primeras bases verdaderamente democráticas de la historia de España e instituir reformas fundamentales en el ámbito estatal.) It was like this because the proclamation of the Second Republic involved the definite arrival of masses of people to a public life, a process which the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera had tried to prevent and which had ended up a failure, which firstly ended with the dictatorship itself, and that finally, by means of the general elections on 12th April 1931, led to a change of the system. Despite being a period of increasing radicalization and political instability, which finished in a civil war, this period between 1931 and 1926 was the longest democratic period that Spain enjoyed before the restoration of the democratic system in the 70’s, with four electoral processes carried out.
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