Back Alejandro Lerroux AN أليخاندرو ليروكس Arabic اليخاندرو ليروكس ARZ Alejandro Lerroux García Catalan Alejandro Lerroux German Alejandro Lerroux Spanish Alejandro Lerroux Basque آلخاندرو لروکس Persian Alejandro Lerroux Finnish Alejandro Lerroux French
Alejandro Lerroux | |
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| Prime Minister of Spain | |
| In office 12 September 1933 – 9 October 1933 | |
| President | Niceto Alcalá Zamora |
| Preceded by | Manuel Azaña |
| Succeeded by | Diego Martínez Barrio |
| In office 16 December 1933 – 28 April 1934 | |
| President | Niceto Alcalá Zamora |
| Preceded by | Diego Martínez Barrio |
| Succeeded by | Ricardo Samper |
| In office 4 October 1934 – 25 September 1935 | |
| President | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora |
| Preceded by | Ricardo Samper |
| Succeeded by | Joaquín Chapaprieta |
| Minister of State of Spain | |
| In office 14 April – 16 December 1931 | |
| President | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora |
| Prime Minister | Manuel Azaña |
| President of the Provisional Government | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora Manuel Azaña |
| Preceded by | Count of Romanones |
| Succeeded by | Luis de Zulueta |
| In office 25 September – 29 October 1935 | |
| President | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora |
| Prime Minister | Joaquín Chapaprieta |
| Preceded by | Juan José Racha García |
| Succeeded by | José Martínez de Velasco |
| Minister of War of Spain | |
| In office 16 November 1934 – 3 April 1936 | |
| President | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Diego Hidalgo y Durán |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Masquelet |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 8 December 1933 – 7 January 1936 | |
| Constituency | Valencia |
| In office 14 July 1931 – 9 October 1933 | |
| Constituency | Madrid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alejandro Lerroux García 4 March 1864 La Rambla, Córdoba, Spain |
| Died | 25 June 1949 (aged 85) Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | Radical Republican Party |
| Spouse | Teresa López |
| Children | Aurelio Lerroux (adoptive) |
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| Occupation | Lawyer |
Alejandro Lerroux García (4 March 1864, in La Rambla, Córdoba – 25 June 1949, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party.[2] He served as Prime Minister three times from 1933 to 1935 and held several cabinet posts as well.[3] A highly charismatic politician, he was distinguished by his demagogical and populist political style.
Founder and leader of the Radical Republican Party (PRR), he was a controversial politician from the beginning, being especially known for his demagogic rhetoric. With a workerist, anticlerical discourse and diametrically opposed to the incipient Catalan nationalism, during his first political stage he became a prominent political leader in Barcelona. Later he would adopt more moderate positions, having a prominent role in the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. Faced with the Manuel Azaña governments during the so-called "reformist" biennium, from September 1933 he would assume the presidency of the Council of Ministers and became one of the main arbiters of the political situation during the conservative biennium of 1934-1935.
His turn to the right, however, led his party to suffer several splits; His image was also badly damaged among the public by a succession of corruption scandals that became public at the end of 1935. After the collapse of the Radical Party in the 1936 elections, Lerroux disappeared from the political scene. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in Portugal, from where he would later show his support for Francisco Franco.
- ^ López Castillo, Antonio (2008). El republicanismo Almeriense durante la segunda república (1931-1936) (in Spanish). Universidad de Almería. p. 389. ISBN 9788482408675. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ Cowans, Jon (2003). Modern Spain: a documentary history. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-8122-3717-X.
- ^ Geneall, Alejandro Lerroux y García