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
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.
Pact of El Pardo
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The Pact of El Pardo was an informal agreement which supposedly took place on 24 November, 1885, in the face of King Alfonso XII's imminent death. It confirmed a system of party alternation that laste
Political system of the Restoration (Spain)
…rule under Cánovas. However, this transition was not the result of a formal agreement between Cánovas and Sagasta, as would later occur with the Pact of El Pardo in November 1885. Instead, it stemmed from "a personal decision by Alfonso XII, made without consultation and, likely, against the advice of Cánovas…
Caricature from Don Quijote magazine mocking the pact as the "Pact to grab her from the hair"