Word: anarcho
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...With only eight dead, 32 wounded, the election was called "the most peaceful in years." Results: At week's beginning, the Left seemed to have raised its Cortes membership from 107 to at least 230, largely by sweeping the rebellious province of Catalonia where the ordinarily non-voting Anarcho-Syndicalists voted for the first time. The Right had dropped from 228 to less than 200. The Centre had snaked out some 65 Deputies, with the Right-Centre coalition claiming a majority of the Cortes' 473 members. As usual, the election aftermath was turbulent. A "state of alarm...