Word: zamora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niceto Alcala Zamora was recently forced to resign as President of (1 Spain, 2 Portugal, 3 Brazil, 4 Cuba, 5 Mexico...
...election was a second President of the Second Spanish Republic to replace kindly old Niceto Alcalá ("Father of the Republic") Zamora, brutally booted out of office last month by the Cortes. The new President was to be picked by the Parliamentary Deputies and an equal number of specially elected delegates sitting to gether in Madrid. Above partisan politics, he would have considerably more prestige and less power than the Premier. Unexpectedly, Premier Azaña let it be known that he would accept the Presidency...
...accession to power had been "unnecessary." Mournfully replied the old monarchist, Count de Romanones, "To dismiss even a cloakroom attendant would require eight days of preparation while the President is to be dismissed in a few minutes." The Catholic and monarchist Right, which had lost power by Zamora's dissolution of the last Cortes, abstained from the voting, knowing that any President put in by the Left could be no better than Zamora. Only five Centrist deputies voted for "The Father of the Second Spanish Republic...
Forehanded Niceto Alcala Zamora had already closed his Presidential Palace desk, gone home where he refused to receive the commission sent to tell him the bad news. Said he: "I am nobody's servant." Automatically elevated to the Provisional Presidency was another Left Republican, Diego Martinez-Barrios, onetime linotype operator, onetime Premier and Premier Manuel Azaña's prot...
...next President will be picked on May 17 by an electoral college composed of as many popularly elected electors as there are deputies in the Cortes, deputies and electors sitting together. If this assembly repudiates last week's repudiation of President Zamora, the Cortes is automatically dissolved...