The Autonomous Galician Republican Organization was a Spanish

Spain

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 left-wing republican

Republicanism

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 and Galician nationalist party in Galicia. It was founded in October 1929 in La Coruña by Santiago Casares Quiroga

Santiago Casares Quiroga

Santiago Casares y Quiroga was a Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 13 May to 19 July 1936....

 and Antón Vilar Ponte

Antón Vilar Ponte

Antón Vilar Ponte was born in Viveiro in 1881 and died in A Coruña in 1936. He was one of the most important galicianists before the civil war. As a journalist he worked in A Nosa Terra, Nós, La Voz de Galicia, El Pueblo Gallego, and El Noroste....

 with the participation of the Irmandades da Fala

Irmandades da Fala

The Irmandades da Fala was a Galician nationalist organization active between 1916 and 1936.It was the first political organization of Galicia that only used the Galician language.-Origin:...

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In March 1930, it organized the Galician Republican Federation with the support of the Radical Republican Party

Radical Republican Party

The Radical Republican Party , sometimes shortened to the Radical Party was a Spanish political party founded in 1908 by Alejandro Lerroux in Santander, Cantabria by a split from the historical Republican Union party led by Nicolás Salmerón....

 and the Radical Socialist Republican Party

Radical Socialist Republican Party

Radical Socialist Republican Party , sometimes shortened to Radical Socialist Party , was a Spanish radical political party, created in 1929 after the split of the left-wing in Alejandro Lerroux's Radical Republican Party...

. Represented by Casares Quiroga, it was a signatory of the Pact of San Sebastián

Pact of San Sebastián

The Pact of San Sebastián was a meeting led by Niceto Alcalá Zamora and Miguel Maura, which took place in San Sebastián, Spain on August 17, 1930. Representatives from practically all republican political movements in Spain at the time attended the meeting. Presided over by Fernando Sasiaín , the...

. The Radicals left the Galician Republican Federation following the proclamation of the Republic

Second Spanish Republic

The Second Spanish Republic was the government of Spain between April 14 1931, and its destruction by a military rebellion, led by General Francisco Franco....

 although the FRG continued to exist until 1932. The federation won 16 seats in the 1931 election

Spanish general election, 1931

-Background:General Primo de Rivera, who had run a military dictatorship in Spain since 1923, resigned as head of government in January 1930. There was little support for a return to the pre-1923 system, and the monarchy had lost credibility by backing the military government...

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Santiago Casares Quiroga

Santiago Casares Quiroga

Santiago Casares y Quiroga was a Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 13 May to 19 July 1936....

 was a cabinet minister in republican governments between 1931 and 1933. In 1932, the Argentine section of ORGA led by Ramón Suárez Picallo participated in the foundation of the Partido Galeguista

Partido Galeguista (1931)

The Partido Galeguista was a Galician nationalist party founded in December 1931. It achieved notoriety during the time of the Spanish Second Republic...

led by Castelao

Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao

Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao , most commonly known as simply Castelao, was a Galician writer in Galician language and one of the main symbols of Galician nationalism...

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Following the dissolution of the FRG in 1932, the ORGA became known as the Galician Republican Party until it merged with the Acción Republicana

Acción Republicana

Republican Action was a Spanish left-wing republican party between 1930 and 1939.The AR was founded in 1925 under the name Acción Política by Manuel Azaña and José Giral. Political Action became a political party in 1930 under the name Republican Action...

 and the Radical Socialist Republican Party

Radical Socialist Republican Party

Radical Socialist Republican Party , sometimes shortened to Radical Socialist Party , was a Spanish radical political party, created in 1929 after the split of the left-wing in Alejandro Lerroux's Radical Republican Party...

 in 1934 to form the Republican Left

Republican Left (Spain)

The Republican Left was a Spanish left-wing republican party founded in 1934.The party was founded in 1934 following the left's defeat in the 1933 election, by the merger of Manuel Azaña's Republican Action, part of Marcelino Domingo's Radical Socialist Republican Party and Santiago Casares...

(Izquierda Republicana).