President of the Republic was the title of the head of state during the Second Spanish Republic. The office was based on the model of the Weimar Republic, then still in power in Germany, and a comprom
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Manuel Azaña
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Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic. He has been calle
President of the Republic (Spain)
…Alcalá-Zamora assumed the new role of President of the Republic, the effective head of state, after the approval of the new Constitution in December 1931. Manuel Azaña remained as Prime Minister, head of the government, until 12 September 1933. With Franco's victory imminent, a National Council of Defense was established…
Manuel Azaña's grave in Montauban, France.