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{{Short description|Spanish political party}}
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{{Infobox political party
| colorcode        = {{party color|Republican Left (Spain)}}
| name             = Republican Left
| native_name      = Izquierda Republicana
| logo             = Logo Izquierda Republicana.svg
| leader           = [[Manuel Azaña]]
| founded          = {{start date|1934}}
| dissolved        = {{end date|1959}}
| merger           = [[Republican Action (Spain)|AR]]<br/>[[Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party|PRRSI]]<br/>[[Autonomous Galician Republican Organization|ORGA]]
| headquarters     = [[Madrid]] (1934–1939)<br>[[Mexico City]] (1939–1946)<br>[[Paris]] (1946–1959)
| newspaper        = ''Política''
| ideology         = [[Republicanism in Spain|Republicanism]]<br>[[Anti-clericalism]]<br>[[Anti-fascism]]<br>[[Social liberalism]]<br>[[Social democracy]]
| position         = [[Centre-left politics|Centre-left]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graham |first1=Helen|author-link1=Helen Graham (historian) |title=Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939 |date=1991 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=9780521392570 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8PlXkkh2InkC}}</ref>
| national         = [[Popular Front (Spain)|Popular Front]] (1936–39)
| colors           = {{color box|red}}{{color box|yellow}}{{color box|purple}} [[Spanish Republican flag|Red, yellow and murrey]]
| country          = Spain
}}
The '''Republican Left''' ({{langx|es|Izquierda Republicana}}) was a [[List of political parties in Spain|Spanish]] [[republicanism|republican]] party founded in 1934.

==History==
The party was founded in 1934 following the left's defeat in the [[Spanish general election, 1933|1933 election]], by the merger of [[Manuel Azaña]]'s [[Republican Action (Spain)|Republican Action]], part of [[Marcelino Domingo]]'s [[Independent Radical Socialist Republican Party]] and [[Santiago Casares Quiroga]]'s [[Autonomous Galician Republican Organization]] (ORGA).<ref>Eds. la Granja, José Luis; De Pablo, Santiago (2009). ''«La II República y la Guerra Civil»''. In ''Historia del País Vasco y Navarra en el siglo XX'' (2d edition). Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva. p. 61. {{ISBN|978-84-9742-942-9}}.</ref> Its members included [[José Giral]], [[Victoria Kent]], and Manuel Azaña, who became the party's leader.

Integrated in the [[Popular Front (Spain)|Popular Front]] ahead of the [[Spanish general election, 1936|1936 election]]. Azaña became President of the Council of Ministers. Following the impeachment of [[Niceto Alcalá Zamora]] from the presidency in May 1936, Azaña was elected President, an office he held until his resignation in February 1939. He was succeeded as President of the Council first by Casares Quiroga] and then by Giral. Later, alongside the [[Republican Union (Spain, 1934)|Republican Union]], the party was the main component of the [[Francisco Largo Caballero|Largo Caballero]] government in September 1936, at the start of the [[Spanish Civil War]]. The IR participated in all republican governments till the end of the civil war.

In exile in [[Mexico]], the IR was the main support of the Republican government-in-exile until it was dissolved in 1959 to found the Spanish Democratic Republican Action. A party taking the name [[Republican Left (Spain, 1977)|Republican Left]] was founded in 1977 and has achieved no major electoral success yet.

==Notable members==
*[[Ramón Bengaray Zabalza]]
*[[Santiago Casares Quiroga]]
*[[José Giral]]
*[[Victoria Kent]]
*[[Manuel Azaña]]

==See also==
*[[Liberalism and radicalism in Spain]]

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