CEDA

Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights

Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas
Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas
Leader	José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones
Founded	4 March 1933
Dissolved	19 April 1937
Preceded by	Popular Action
Merged into	FET y de las JONS
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain
Newspaper	El Debate
Youth wing	Juventudes de Acción Popular
Membership (1933)	700,000 (party's claim)
Ideology	National conservatism; Political Catholicism; Accidentalism; Corporatism
Political position	Right-wing
Colors	Blue
Party flag
	Politics of Spain; Political parties; Elections; ^ A: Also described as centre-right and far-right.;

The Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas (lit. 'Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights', CEDA) was a Spanish right-wing^[10]^[11] political party in the Second Spanish Republic.^[12] A Catholic conservative force, it was the political heir to Ángel Herrera Oria's Acción Popular and defined itself in terms of the 'affirmation and defence of the principles of Christian civilization,' translating this theoretical stand into a political demand for the revision of the anti-Catholic passages of the republican constitution. CEDA saw itself as a defensive organisation, formed to protect religious toleration, family, and private property rights.^[13]

The CEDA claimed that it was defending the Catholic Church in Spain and Christian civilization against authoritarian socialism, state atheism, and religious persecution.^[14] It would ultimately become the most popular individual party in Spain in the 1936 elections.^[15] The party represented the interests of the Catholic voters as well as the rural population of Spain, most prominently the medium and small peasants and landowners.^[16] The party sought the restoration of the powerful role of the Catholic Church that existed in Spain before the establishment of the Republic, and based their program solely on Catholic teaching, calling for land redistribution and industrial reform based on the distributist and corporatist ideals of Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno.^[17]

^ ^a ^b Blinkhorn, Martin (2002), Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1932–1939, Routledge, p. 15
^ Blinkhorn, Martin (2002), Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1932–1939, Routledge, p. 140
^ Schatz, Sara (May 2001). "Democracy's Breakdown and the Rise of Fascism: The Case of the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-6". Social History. 26 (2). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 146. JSTOR 4286762. In this first two-year period or bienio, the abandonment of support by the Radical Party led to the parliamentary victory and the governance of the nation by the centre-right, CEDA, and other rightist groups (September 1933).
^ Linz, Juan J. (April 1976). "Patterns of Land Tenure, Division of Labor, and Voting Behavior in Europe". Special Issue on Peasants and Revolution. Comparative Politics. 8 (3): 402. doi:10.2307/421406. JSTOR 421406. Under the republic (1931-36), these regions constituted the stronghold of the Catholic center-right CEDA, led by Gil Robles.
^ Payne, Stanley G. (January 2021). "The Road to Revolution". First Things. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
^ Alexander, Robert Jackson (1999). The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Janus Publishing Company Lim. ISBN 978-1-85756-400-6.
^ Mansell, Richard (2012). "Rebuilding a culture, or raising the defences?: Majorca and translation in the interwar period". Revista Internacional de Catalanística = Journal of Catalan Studies (15): 6. ISSN 1139-0271. Yet 1933 sees an end to this; the majority party is the far-right CEDA, and the Spanish political scene becomes increasingly polarised.
^ Laffond, José Carlos Rueda (2019-02-12). Memoria Roja: Una historia cultural de la memoria comunista en España, 1936-1977 (in Spanish). Universitat de València. ISBN 978-84-9134-383-7.
^ Webster, Jason (2010-08-03). Guerra. Transworld. ISBN 978-1-4070-9488-5.
^ Keefe, Eugene K. (1976). Area Handbook for Spain. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-001567-0.
^ Amir, Ruth (2018-11-27). Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers: Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4985-5734-4.
^ Beevor, Antony (2006). The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. Penguin Group. p. xxx. ISBN 978-0-14-303765-1.
^ Mary Vincent, Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic, Chapter 9, p. 202
^ Paul Preston. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution & Revenge. 3rd edition. New York: Norton & Company, Inc, 2007. 2006 p. 62.
^ Payne, Stanley G. The Franco Regime, 1936–1975. University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, p. 46
^ Cite error: The named reference linzs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference corrin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Blinkhorn-1] Blinkhorn, Martin (2002), Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1932–1939, Routledge, p. 15

[Blinkhorn2-2] Blinkhorn, Martin (2002), Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1932–1939, Routledge, p. 140

[3] Schatz, Sara (May 2001). "Democracy's Breakdown and the Rise of Fascism: The Case of the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-6". Social History. 26 (2). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 146. JSTOR 4286762. In this first two-year period or bienio, the abandonment of support by the Radical Party led to the parliamentary victory and the governance of the nation by the centre-right, CEDA, and other rightist groups (September 1933).

[4] Linz, Juan J. (April 1976). "Patterns of Land Tenure, Division of Labor, and Voting Behavior in Europe". Special Issue on Peasants and Revolution. Comparative Politics. 8 (3): 402. doi:10.2307/421406. JSTOR 421406. Under the republic (1931-36), these regions constituted the stronghold of the Catholic center-right CEDA, led by Gil Robles.

[5] Payne, Stanley G. (January 2021). "The Road to Revolution". First Things. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

[6] Alexander, Robert Jackson (1999). The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Janus Publishing Company Lim. ISBN 978-1-85756-400-6.

[7] Mansell, Richard (2012). "Rebuilding a culture, or raising the defences?: Majorca and translation in the interwar period". Revista Internacional de Catalanística = Journal of Catalan Studies (15): 6. ISSN 1139-0271. Yet 1933 sees an end to this; the majority party is the far-right CEDA, and the Spanish political scene becomes increasingly polarised.

[8] Laffond, José Carlos Rueda (2019-02-12). Memoria Roja: Una historia cultural de la memoria comunista en España, 1936-1977 (in Spanish). Universitat de València. ISBN 978-84-9134-383-7.

[9] Webster, Jason (2010-08-03). Guerra. Transworld. ISBN 978-1-4070-9488-5.

[10] Keefe, Eugene K. (1976). Area Handbook for Spain. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-001567-0.

[11] Amir, Ruth (2018-11-27). Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers: Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4985-5734-4.

[Beevor_2006-12] Beevor, Antony (2006). The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. Penguin Group. p. xxx. ISBN 978-0-14-303765-1.

[13] Mary Vincent, Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic, Chapter 9, p. 202

[Paul_Preston_2007._Pp._62-14] Paul Preston. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution & Revenge. 3rd edition. New York: Norton & Company, Inc, 2007. 2006 p. 62.

[Payne,_Stanley_G_1975._p.46-15] Payne, Stanley G. The Franco Regime, 1936–1975. University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, p. 46

[linzs-16] Cite error: The named reference linzs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[corrin-17] Cite error: The named reference corrin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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