Federal Democratic Republican Party

Federal Democratic Republican Party
Partido Republicano Democrático Federal
Leader Francesc Pi i Margall
Emilio Castelar
Estanislao Figueras
Nicolás Estévanez Murphy
Eduardo Benot
Founded 1868
Dissolved 1912
Split from Democratic Party
Merged into Republican Nationalist Federal Union
Newspaper El Federalista
El Estado Catalán
La Alianza de los Pueblos
El Iris del Pueblo
La Igualdad
La Discusión
El Pueblo Español
Ideology Federal republicanism
Progressivism
Radical liberalism
Republicanism
Secularism
Social liberalism
Factions:
Cantonalism
Catalanism
Localism
Political position Left-wing
Colours   Purple

The Federal Democratic Republican Party (Spanish: Partido Republicano Democrático Federal, PRDF) was a Spanish political party founded in 1868 during the Glorious Revolution that was active until 1912. Its ideology was federal republicanism and progressivism.

History

In 1868, the left-wing and federalist republican wing of the Democrats established the Democratic Federal Republican to achieve a secular and democratic federal republic in Spain.

The PRDF was the ruling party during the First Spanish Republic (1873–1874), but it failed in its goal of consolidating a republican form of government and in establishing federalism. After the fall of the First Republic, it became a minority party, although retaining some influence in the republican movement during the Restoration.

See also