Encasillado
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The "encasillado" was the system used to assign the seats in the general elections of the Bourbon Restoration period in Spain before they were held. This ensured through electoral fraud that the seats
Caricature in the form of an auca about the political career of Francisco Romero Robledo, known as El Gran Elector, published on August 28, 1881, a few months after the fall of the Cánovas government of which he was the "skillful" Minister of the Interior. One of the couplets reads: "In electoral frauds / leave Posada in diapers".
Caricature from El Motín entitled "Tribute to Blessed Praxedes by the candidates whom he miraculously saved from electoral death" (1881) and showing several elected deputies in procession (under a canopy and with the bishop's mitre the republican Emilio Castelar) behind the President of the Government Sagasta carried on a platform, who in turn carries in his arms the Minister of the Interior Venancio González, who is the one who actually worked the
Francisco Silvela
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Francisco Silvela y Le Vielleuze was a Spanish politician who became Prime Minister of Spain on 3 May 1899, succeeding Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. He served in this capacity until 22 October 1900. Silvela
Photograph by Kaulak
