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...performance was vintage Juan Carlos: persuasive, a shade theatrical, and courageous. Most of his advisers had urged him not to make the trip in the first place. With the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez only the week before, the country was in the first political crisis of its democratic post-Franco era. No successor to Suárez had yet been named, mainly because the likely choice, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, had failed to receive sufficient support from his party. But most Spaniards seemed confident. They knew that if an effective government emerged from the crisis, much...
...only gratifying result of Suárez's resignation was that it successfully tested Spain's new constitutional machinery...
...accomplishments, though, Suárez failed in one democratic essential: he was unable to mold a coherent political party out of the disparate centrist and conservative groupings that made up his Union of the Democratic Center (U.C.D.). Last week, fed up with relentless sniping within his party, Suárez, 48, acted with uncharacteristic boldness and resigned his posts both as head of the government and party leader...
Within twelve hours, the U.C.D. nominated Deputy Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 54, as Suárez's successor...
Ironically, by resigning, Suárez may have made his most effective appeal yet to fellow coalition members to quit their constant infighting. In an emotional televised speech, Sudrez chastised U.C.D. critics and said that continued attacks on the government "could disorient public opinion, which approves the democratic system." As for his own term in office, the ex-Prime Minister said proudly: "I have governed for 4½ years, and no one else has governed Spain democratically for that long in 150 years...