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Third government of Manuel Azana: composition and proclamation

The first government of Alejandro Lerroux, also known as the “Government of Republican Concentration”, was formed on 12 September 1933, following the latter’s appointment as Prime Minister of Spain by President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora and his swearing-in the same day. It succeeded the third government of Manuel Azaña and was the government of Spain from 12 September 1933 to 9 October 1933, a total of 28 days.

The cabinet comprised members of the Radical Republican Party, the Autonomist Republican Union Party, the Radical Socialist Republican Party, Republican Action, the Republican Left of Catalonia, the Galician Republican Party and the Radical Socialist Left.

The government was plagued by infighting and after Lerroux, when presenting his government to the Cortes on 2 September, suggested he would ask for the dissolution of Congress and the calling to new elections, the coalition broke. The left-wing republicans had made it a condition for participating and supporting the government that the radicals renounce to this demand, their refusal to abide to their conditions led to them presenting a motion of confidence the government lost, leading to its downfall.(Townson, pg. 219-220)

The Constitution of 1931 enshrined Spain as a semi-presidential republic, awarding the President of the Republic the capability of appointing government ministers at will unless the Cortes refused explicitly, that is to say, through a motion of no confidence.^[6] He could also inspect and ultimately control executive acts by granting or denying the signature of presidential decrees ^[7] and dissolve the Cortes. ^[8]

The President of the Republic, Alcalá-Zamora, held a round of consultations to solve the political crisis arising from Azaña’s resignation between 8 June and 9 June 1933: