Third government of Manuel Azaña

3rd government of Manuel Azaña

Government of Spain
1933
The government in June 1933
Date formed12 June 1933
Date dissolved12 September 1933
People and organisations
PresidentNiceto Alcalá-Zamora
Prime MinisterManuel Azaña
No. of ministers11
Total no. of members12
Member parties  PSOE
  PRRS
  ERC
  AR
  PRG
  PRDF
Status in legislatureMajority (coalition)
Opposition party  PRR
Opposition leaderAlejandro Lerroux
History
PredecessorAzaña II
SuccessorLerroux I

The third government of Manuel Azaña was formed on 12 June 1933, following the latter's appointment as prime minister of Spain by President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora and his swearing-in that same day. It succeeded the second Azaña government and was the government of Spain from 12 June 1933 to 12 September 1933, a total of 92 days, or 3 months.

The cabinet comprised members of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), the Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRS), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), the Republican Action (AR), the Galician Republican Party (PRG) and the Federal Democratic Republican Party (PRDF).

The government would collapse after their loss on the partial local elections of 23 April 1933 and the elections to the Guarantees' Tribunal on 3 September 1933, that were won by the opposition CEDA. In an effort to prevent the fall of his cabinet, Azaña called a motion of confidence in order to prove he still counted with the confidence of the "majority" on 6 September and passed. Nonetheless, on the next day the President of the Republic withdrew his confidence on the government using the election losses and the narrow victory of the motion of confidence as a pretext for this decission.