Third government of Manuel Azaña
3rd government of Manuel Azaña | |
|---|---|
Government of Spain | |
| 1933 | |
The government in June 1933 | |
| Date formed | 12 June 1933 |
| Date dissolved | 12 September 1933 |
| People and organisations | |
| President | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora |
| Prime Minister | Manuel Azaña |
| No. of ministers | 11 |
| Total no. of members | 12 |
| Member parties | PSOE PRRS ERC AR PRG PRDF |
| Status in legislature | Majority (coalition) |
| Opposition party | PRR |
| Opposition leader | Alejandro Lerroux |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Azaña II |
| Successor | Lerroux 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.