A general election was held in Spain on 1 February 1891, and on 15 February 1891, to elect the members of the 5th Cortes under the Spanish Constitution of 1876, during the Restoration period. All 442
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Francisco Romero Robledo 1906
Emilio Castelar
The political system of the Restoration was the system in force in Spain during the period of the Restoration, between the promulgation of the Constitution of 1876 and the coup d’état of 1923 that est
1891 Spanish general election
…system by appointing and dismissing governments, which would then organize elections to provide themselves with a parliamentary majority. This informal system allowed the two major "dynastic" political parties at the time, the Conservatives and the Liberals—characterized as oligarchic, elite parties with loose…
Cartoon by El Loro (1881) on the “turno pacífico” between the two major parties of the Restoration: the conservatives and the liberals. At the top, the liberal leader Sagastaa serves the conservative government presided over by Cánovas. At the bottom, Cánovas does the same with the liberal government led by Sagasta.
Antonio Canovas del Castillo. His political project formed the basis of the Restoration regime.
Caricature of the President of the Government and leader of the Conservative Party, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, dressed in the royal ermine, a frequent accusation from his detractors: “Mr. Cánovas reigns and governs at the same time, even if he shows more taste for the former than for the latter,” declared an eminent liberal leader (satirical magazine El Buñuelo of February 10, 1881).
Manuel Alonso Martínez, leader of the Constitutional Party, joined Cánovas's project to approve a new Constitution, abandoning the demand for the text of 1869. His supporters were called centralists after the group they formed: the Parliamentary Center.