De la Comisión Gestora a la Diputación Foral de Navarra (1931-1935) [From the Comisión Gestora (Interim Committee) to the Diputación Foral (Provincial Government) of Navarre]

Abstract

The group of representatives from Navarre and the Basque Country in the Parliament of the Spanish Republic during the biennium 1931-1933, which was composed of Basque nationalists, traditionalists and independent Catholics, showed in various ways its rejection to the interim committees imposed on April 1931 by the Government of the Republic for the Provincial Governments of Navarre and the Basque Country (Diputaciones forales), and repeatedly asked for them to be democratically elected. In the second biennium there were several attempts, with right-wing majority in the House. The most effective initiative was a bill championed by the navarrese parliament member Rafael Aizpún on February 9, 1934, asking for direct election of local government members (diputados forales) by Navarrese municipalities, as long...