The Democratic Party was a Spanish

Spain

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 political party in the reign of Isabella II

Isabella II of Spain

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 (reigned 1833–1868), being a clandestine force except during the Progressive Biennium (1854–1856).

In 1849, a left-wing of the progressives

Progressive Party (Spain)

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 established the Democratic Party as a rally of radical liberals and moderate socialists which didn't accept the political system of Queen Isabella

Isabella II of Spain

Isabella II was the only female monarch of Spain in modern times. She came to the throne as an infant, but her succession was disputed by the Carlists, who refused to recognise a female sovereign, leading to the Carlist Wars. After a troubled reign, she was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of...

 and called for the full application of the Constitution of 1812

Spanish Constitution of 1812

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. Its main leaders were Francisco Pi y Margall

Francisco Pi y Margall

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 and Cristino Martos.

Following the Glorious Revolution

Glorious Revolution (Spain)

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 of 1868, which deposed Queen Isabella, the party disintegrated due to conflocts between its different factions. The cimbrios, led by Martos, accepted the democratic monarchy of King Amadeo I, and joined the Radical Democratic Party

Radical Democratic Party (Spain)

The Radical Democratic Party was one of the Spanish political parties that contended for power during the reign of Amadeo I and the First Spanish Republic , opposing the Constitutional Party....

 of Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla

Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla

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. On the other side, the republican faction led by Pi y Margall approached the incipient Spanish labour movement

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 and the Catalan independentists

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 to form the Federal Republican Party.