Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

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Vigilante and Shining Knight were in the Seven Soldiers of Victory, together, no Justice League required.
True, but no mention of them either in the box.

To be fair, there is a lot of stuff I don't mention in these boxes. They are supposed to be little snippets of this world, some a bit longer, some a bit shorter.

Now keep in mind, I'm not saying that the Seven Soldiers of Victory are canon, but I'm also not saying they're not canon. It basically exists in a state of flux until I can establish it one way or the other in another wikibox.

Like I mentioned before, I find that trying to research everything and put it into one cohesive, long-running world a fun little puzzle to work out. The heroes from the Golden Age have so many decades of continuity to pull from that I can do whatever I want with them, usually preferring to establish their earliest stories as the canon ones (a point in favor of SSV being a thing), with later stories and spinoff media being possible inclusions in this world.
 
In which Disney Animated Studios didn't go in for sequels for their feature films with Frozen 2 and Ralph Breaks The Internet being butterflied away and instead went into more original work and one certain lost Disney project making it in time for a certain Mouse's 90th birthday in 2018...
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Plan to add more wiki boxes to this scenario soon... :)
 
As it's been a while, have two Spanish elections in one post!

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The 1960 Spanish general election was held on the 18th September 1960 to elect the 473 members of the Congress of Deputies. Incumbent Prime Minister Luis Recasens was running for re-election to what would prove to be his last term. Unusually, the party leaders were almost unchanged from 1957, aside from the Republican Union (UR) now being led by Juan Ibarrola and Santiago Carrillo taking up the leadership of the PCE.

With a strong economic climate internally, the election was mostly fought on the issue of international politics. Recasens stressed that as his government had successfully led Spain into the Common Market, finished relinquishing Spain’s African colonies with the independence of Spanish Sahara and Guinea, and enjoyed positive relations with NATO and the UN (though privately, he was under pressure from aligned groups like the CIA to ban and suppress communist and anarchist groupings in Spain), it had been greatly successful, and emphasised the stability of another PRR majority government over a potentially chaotic hung Congress.

By contrast, the PSOE under Luis Jiménez de Asúa sought to create a broad front against the PRR and attacked Recasens for his perceived hypocrisy. They pointed to issues like his government’s sluggishness with devolution to the provinces; only the Basque Country and Catalonia had been given devolved parliaments at the time, despite heavy pressure in Andalusia to do so there; and his ambivalent stance on the Algerian War, which he had refused to condemn in order not to damage Franco-Spanish relations.

These issues galvanised left-leaning voters against the PRR and cost it its majority in the Congress, though Recasens’ personal popularity allowed the PRR to hold a comfortable plurality with 206 seats to 122 for the PSOE. Efforts by Jiménez de Asúa to form a coalition to become Prime Minister broke down after President Martínez Barrio convinced Ibarrola to back Recasens, and a PRR-UR government with the AP’s support was formed.

This would be the last Spanish election held under President Martínez Barrio, due to his death in office in 1962.

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The 1963 Spanish election was held on the 24th November 1963, to elect the 473 members of the Congress of Deputies. It was the first election held under the presidency of Luis Recasens.

The governing Radical Republican Party (PRR) was seeking re-election to a fifth consecutive term, but its popularity had significantly declined since the previous election. Recasens, its longtime parliamentary leader, had left the Congress when President Diego Martínez Barrio died on the 1st January 1962 and Recasens was elected to be his successor.

While Recasens proved as well-liked a President as he had been a Prime Minister, his successor as Prime Minister, Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, proved unpopular due to his scholarly background leading voters to see him as a dry technocrat. He also damaged the PRR’s reputation on the issue of devolution to Andalusia due to comments he made suggesting he saw Andalusian culture as subservient to Spanish culture. This led a faction of UR members led by the Andalusian Alejando Rojas-Marcos to withdraw support for the government, further damaging Sánchez-Albornoz’s government.

Knowing this was a rift which could be capitalised on, opposition leader Luis Jiménez de Asúa of the PSOE entered talks with Rojas-Marcos and Juan Ibarrola to secure their support for a motion of no confidence in the government in September 1963. While this had been seen as unlikely to dislodge the URR-led government due to it and the right-wing AP having a combined majority in the Congress, there was considerable public sympathy for such an outcome, highlighted when a march of over 2000 PSOE supporters and other left-wing activists on the Palacio de las Cortes (the Congress building) was held on the 3rd October. As a result of this and the absence of President Martínez Barrio to steer the UR in a direction more sympathetic to the PRR, Ibarrola agreed to support Jiménez de Asúa.

When the motion of no confidence was held, due to several AP members either abstaining or voting for it due to a belief they could capitalize on right-wing dissatisfaction with the PRR, it narrowly passed by 235 votes to 207. Negotiations between Sánchez-Albornoz and AP leader Torcuato Fernández-Miranda failed, and President Recasens dissolved the Congress.

Despite the widespread expectation that Jiménez de Asúa would be elected Prime Minister, President Recasens threw his support behind Sánchez-Albornoz and managed to lessen the PSOE’s momentum by emphasizing the economic achievements of the PRR’s thirteen years in government and, ironically, acquiescing to a major policy plank of the PSOE, the introduction of direct presidential elections. Fernández-Miranda also ran a strong outsider campaign for the AP, which used the slogan ‘ni gobierno ni oposición’ (‘neither government nor opposition’).

While the parties of the right were not as harshly defeated as expected, the election still ultimately saw the first PSOE lead in a Spanish election in 27 years, and Jiménez de Asúa formed a government with the support of the IR and UR to become the first PSOE Prime Minister since Juan Negrín before the Second World War.
 
Here's something fun I recently completed about the Banat People's Republic and its governing party, the Communist Party of Banat. Please excuse any translation mishaps that may have appeared :)

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The Banat People's Republic, commonly referred to as Banat, was a socialist country in Central Europe that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1989. Covering an area of 27,104 sq km (10,465 sq mi), the BPR bordered Hungary to the north, Romania to the east, and Yugoslavia to the west. The country had a population of approximately 3.1 million near the end of its existence, and the largest city and official capital since 1947 was Temesvar, followed by the cities of Lugos and Nagybecskerek. It was a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party of Banat and was a member of the Warsaw Pact.

Following the defeat of the country's Axis-aligned government, a unity government was established. The Communist Party of Banat was able to take control in the 1946 election due to the influence of the Soviet Union, and the people's republic was declared on 3 March 1947 with Jovan Veselinov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Banat and head of state. Throughout its existence, social unrest was common, much of which was a result of disputes between and calls for autonomy by the country's four largest ethnic groups: Romanians, Germans, Serbians, and Hungarians. Efforts towards creating a stronger Banatian identity were met with backlash, most notably leading to the nationwide Ethnic Revolts. The BPR found much support from the USSR and Hungary but often conflicted with fellow Warsaw Pact member Romania over the alleged suppression of Romanian culture and pre-World War II territorial claims; relations worsened drastically during the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, culminating in the 1968 border crisis.

The leadership of the country had begun to enact liberalization reforms in 1989 amid growing unrest internally and across Central and Eastern Europe. However, in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, the Communist Party of Banat announced that it would relinquish power. On the 71st anniversary of the founding of the First Banat Republic, the Banat People's Republic was dissolved and replaced by the Second Banat Republic.

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Here's something fun I recently completed about the Banat People's Republic and its governing party, the Communist Party of Banat. Please excuse any translation mishaps that may have appeared :)

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The Banat People's Republic, commonly referred to as Banat, was a socialist country in Central Europe that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1989. Covering an area of 27,104 sq km (10,465 sq mi), the BPR bordered Hungary to the north, Romania to the east, and Yugoslavia to the west. The country had a population of approximately 3.1 million near the end of its existence, and the largest city and official capital since 1947 was Temesvar, followed by the cities of Lugos and Nagybecskerek. It was a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party of Banat and was a member of the Warsaw Pact.

Following the defeat of the country's Axis-aligned government, a unity government was established. The Communist Party of Banat was able to take control in the 1946 election due to the influence of the Soviet Union, and the people's republic was declared on 3 March 1947 with Jovan Veselinov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Banat and head of state. Throughout its existence, social unrest was common, much of which was a result of disputes between and calls for autonomy by the country's four largest ethnic groups: Romanians, Germans, Serbians, and Hungarians. Efforts towards creating a stronger Banatian identity were met with backlash, most notably leading to the nationwide Ethnic Revolts. The BPR found much support from the USSR and Hungary but often conflicted with fellow Warsaw Pact member Romania over the alleged suppression of Romanian culture and pre-World War II territorial claims; relations worsened drastically during the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, culminating in the 1968 border crisis.

The leadership of the country had begun to enact liberalization reforms in 1989 amid growing unrest internally and across Central and Eastern Europe. However, in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, the Communist Party of Banat announced that it would relinquish power. On the 71st anniversary of the founding of the First Banat Republic, the Banat People's Republic was dissolved and replaced by the Second Banat Republic.

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Here's something fun I recently completed about the Banat People's Republic and its governing party, the Communist Party of Banat. Please excuse any translation mishaps that may have appeared :)

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The Banat People's Republic, commonly referred to as Banat, was a socialist country in Central Europe that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1989. Covering an area of 27,104 sq km (10,465 sq mi), the BPR bordered Hungary to the north, Romania to the east, and Yugoslavia to the west. The country had a population of approximately 3.1 million near the end of its existence, and the largest city and official capital since 1947 was Temesvar, followed by the cities of Lugos and Nagybecskerek. It was a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party of Banat and was a member of the Warsaw Pact.

Following the defeat of the country's Axis-aligned government, a unity government was established. The Communist Party of Banat was able to take control in the 1946 election due to the influence of the Soviet Union, and the people's republic was declared on 3 March 1947 with Jovan Veselinov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Banat and head of state. Throughout its existence, social unrest was common, much of which was a result of disputes between and calls for autonomy by the country's four largest ethnic groups: Romanians, Germans, Serbians, and Hungarians. Efforts towards creating a stronger Banatian identity were met with backlash, most notably leading to the nationwide Ethnic Revolts. The BPR found much support from the USSR and Hungary but often conflicted with fellow Warsaw Pact member Romania over the alleged suppression of Romanian culture and pre-World War II territorial claims; relations worsened drastically during the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, culminating in the 1968 border crisis.

The leadership of the country had begun to enact liberalization reforms in 1989 amid growing unrest internally and across Central and Eastern Europe. However, in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, the Communist Party of Banat announced that it would relinquish power. On the 71st anniversary of the founding of the First Banat Republic, the Banat People's Republic was dissolved and replaced by the Second Banat Republic.

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Dude this is GOOD.

Anymore info on the dictators?
 
Dude this is GOOD.

Anymore info on the dictators?
Thank you!

Don't have much now (I actually underestimated how long it would take me to find suitable candidates from Banat who were associated with the Yugoslav and Romanian governments lol), but I might try to go more detailed on each of them soon
 
Part 1 here.

I'm Still Here - An Alternate Disney/Treasure Planet Timeline

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is a 2004 American animated science fantasy action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 12, 2004. The sequel to the animated sci-fi adventure film Treasure Planet, the film garnered even more success for the series. The film was co-written, co-produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, who had previously made the first film together, and stared most of the original cast excluding Willem Dafoe and Julia Stiles, who joined as Ironbeard and Katherine "Kate" Blake respectively. Stiles and Gordon-Levitt (who plays the main protagonist Jim Hawkins in both films) had previously worked 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), and apparently had a good working relationship in the making of Treasure Planet 2.

The film once again employed the technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation, and with a doubled budget of $185 million, it overtook the original Treasure Planet film as the most expensive traditionally animated film ever made. The plot follows Jim Hawkins going to the Royal Interstellar Academy where he is a bit of a hot-shot and rebel, in contrast to his smart classmate and eventual love interest, Kate Blake. Captain Amelia is the dean of the academy and has a brand new vessel designed by Dr. Delbert Doppler: The Centurion, which is stolen by the infamous Captain Ironbeard, a cyborg more machine than man. This, combined with the potential return of Silver, could cause more problems for Jim as he tries to win over both Kate and her father, Admiral Blake.

The film was, much like it's predecessor, a smash hit, beating out The Notebook, Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite and even Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in the box office. it was again nominated for and won Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards, beating Finding Nemo and Brother Bear, and was even nominated for Best Picture, which infamously caused quite a stir in the filmmaking community, though it lost that award to The Lord Of The Rings: Return of The King. The film was also critically acclaimed, with many reviewers citing the characters, humor and musical score as the strong points.

All in all, with the success of the film, plans for a franchise began in earnest, with a whole expanded universe and even an animated Disney series, with Gordon-Levitt and Stiles rumored to returning as their characters, many fans waited excitedly for the return of Jim Hawkins and company, and, near the end of 2004, the news was made official, and The Treasure Planet Chronicles officially began production in late September of 2004.
As much as I like your infobox about Treasure Planet 2, @ThatAutisticGuy . I do have a couple of questions to ask you.

1: How does Shrek 2's box office performance go? Considering TP2 in your infobox and Shrek 2 in real life were released around the same time.
2: Home on the Range gets butterflied away, I assume?
 
As much as I like your infobox about Treasure Planet 2, @ThatAutisticGuy . I do have a couple of questions to ask you.

1: How does Shrek 2's box office performance go? Considering TP2 in your infobox and Shrek 2 in real life were released around the same time.
2: Home on the Range gets butterflied away, I assume?
1. Shrek 2's box office is probably trounced in comparison, seeing as Treasure Planet 2 would pull away from it's main audience.
2. Likely so, with Treasure Planet being the cash cow, it likely wouldn't be made.

Not much of a pop culture expert, so hope this satisfies.
 
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WAYNES AND ARKHAMS
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Hereby I, Alan Wayne, put forth the last words I am likely to ever write. They come for another session of torture, and I do not think I can endure much longer.

The Waynes and the Arkhams, the Founding Families of Gotham.
Or so would the stories tell you. My father came to this city an educated man of modest means, but with an old name, and he made himself a fortune. Not only as a man of the law, but one of business. By the time the venerable Judge Solomon Wayne passed away he left me land second in quantity only to the Arkhams, the oldest patriarchs of this city.

It was up to me to seize upon his many holdings and consolidate them. Land was never my ambition, I am no penny counting landlord living from the rent of others. So I sold it all to the City and made my Company. Railways, Coal, Oil! These were the trades of the future and each returned me my investments 10 fold. The Great Alan Wayne, richest man from coast to coast, captain of industry, Prince of the city. I never forgot where that money came from. I knew from the start that my destiny was not that of business, but of creation! With the wealth the land of Gotham made me I would in turn rebuild that hamlet into a great city of tomorrow. One to rival not only upstart Metropolis across the bay, but the great capitals of Europe! And so I met the great Cyrus Pinckney, whose visions matched my own, and we built the capital of capitals. The Wayne Tower in which my company would habitate, the tallest structure in the world. Founder's Bridge tied us to the continent, so great it was it bankrupted Cobblepot's ferry empire. A great Opera so that men and women may appreciate art, and a Metro network so that they might journey through the city's very core! I should've known there would be a reckoning.

The Wayne's and the Arkhams, closer than brothers.
At least I thought so. Amadeus and I grew up side by side, running and playing around each other's manors. We were the best of friends and we dreamed of making Gotham a city of tomorrow. I would built it's shell and Amadeus would treat its spirit. He even introduced me to my wife during a visit I paid him in Metropolis. What could break such a bond?
They could. The Court. The Court!
I am not insane!
Papers disappearing, numbers and ledgers changing over night, buildings burning down, construction projects halted, old friends turning their gaze away until my very son ousted me from my Company...MY COMPANY!
Oh I was tolerated yes, I was even convenient for a time. But push too far, ask too many questions, try to make life actually decent for the working people of this city and they will descend on you.
The Owls. The Owls.
How did they turn Amadeus I will never know. Perhaps he was always one of them. No, I will not believe that. Perhaps it was what happened to Constance and Harriet. Poor baby Harriet. Was that their doing as well?
Now I am a patient within the very Manor I played on as a child and my closest friend comes to deliver another session of electrocution. A curse on you Amadeus, may you share my room some day!
I am not insane.
The Waynes and the Arkhams
And the Owls!
 

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1. Shrek 2's box office is probably trounced in comparison, seeing as Treasure Planet 2 would pull away from it's main audience.
2. Likely so, with Treasure Planet being the cash cow, it likely wouldn't be made.

Not much of a pop culture expert, so hope this satisfies.
1: As much as I like to see a Treasure Planet 2, I really hope that Shrek 2 is still successful at the box office.
2: I guess that's good news. Even though I think Home on the Range is one of the weakest Disney animated features, I don't hate it with a burning passion like a lot of other Disney fans.
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Well, while I'm here, I might as well add this.


The 1864 United States presidential election in Vermont in Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South

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The 1864 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 8, 1864, as part of the 1864 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Vermont voted for the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln, over the three other candidates, Radical Republican candidate John C. Frémont, Democratic candidate Horatio Seymour and Independent candidate George B. McClellan.

Lincoln won the Green Mountain state by a margin of 13.8%. His victory in the state was closer than expected, likely due to the split in the Republican vote between him and Frémont.

Vermont had previously been Lincoln's strongest state by popular vote percentage four years earlier (where Lincoln won 75.86% of the vote) and it had also been Frémont's strongest state in 1856 (where he won with 77.96% of the vote).


Along with beginning a new part of my Guns of the South infobox series, this is also my birthday post in celebration of my 24th birthday. ;)🎂
 
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The 1965 Spanish presidential election was held in two rounds on the 4th and 18th July 1965. It was the first direct presidential election in Spanish history, held after the constitutional reforms of the PSOE government of Luis Jiménez de Asúa, and saw incumbent President Luis Recasens of the PRR run for election to a five-year term.

Previously, the presidency of Spain had been elected by the members of the Congress of Deputies, but this had long been a source of contention among the public after it was used by the Popular Front to oust Niceto Alcalá-Zamora despite having no real mandate to do so, which had been among the causes of the Civil War. Under President Martínez Barrio, the right had obstructed reforming this rule while it held a parliamentary majority, and when it elected Recasens, the then-Prime Minister, as the new President after Martínez Barrio’s death, the public and particularly leftists were angered by the PRR seizing control of the Presidency, deeming it ‘hypocritical’ due to the common condemnation of the Popular Front having done so.

During the 1963 campaign, President Recasens had publicly declared he and the PRR would be open to introducing direct elections, and in early 1964 he and Prime Minister Jiménez de Asúa entered talks on how to accomplish this. It was agreed that the President’s powers would be unchanged, and that elections would be held either at the end of a five-year term or on the death of a sitting President. The negotiations proved surprisingly smooth, as both Recasens and Jiménez de Asúa wanted to protect both their parties’ images in the lead-up to the presidential election and future parliamentary elections.

Due to his personal popularity, it was expected the election would be easily won by Recasens. Most of the regional parties chose not to run in the election- the Catalan anarcho-syndicalist Juan García Oliver famously remarked, ‘Non-Castilians have no more reason to vote for de Gaulle than for Recasens’, which led an anarchist student to change his name to ‘General Charles de Gaulle’ and run for President. The national parties largely put forward their leaders, such as Torcuato Fernández-Miranda of the AP and Santiago Carrillo of the PCE, but their limited broad support meant they were expected to flounder in a runoff vote.

While Jiménez de Asúa felt the PSOE needed to run in the elections it had helped organize, he himself was unwilling to sacrifice his position as Prime Minister, particularly as he enjoyed more political power than he would as President. In his place ran Ramón Rubial, a Basque PSOE minister who at the time had a fairly low profile. Despite this, Rubial ran an energetic campaign, using his popularity within the PSOE-aligned trade union the UGT to drive support for the party. Recasens’ refusal to engage in a presidential debate as Rubial suggested also encouraged left-wing and anti-establishment voters towards him.

As expected, Recasens won a comfortable plurality in the first round, but did not win an overall majority, while Rubial came a surprisingly strong second. In the second round, Recasens prevailed by only 54.6% of the vote to 45.4% for Rubial despite his overwhelming support from the right and the political establishment. This raised Rubial’s profile going forward and increased the PSOE’s momentum, contributing to its victory in the parliamentary election held two years later.

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The 1967 Spanish general election was held on the 26th March 1967 to elect the 473 members of the Congress of Deputies. It was called eight months in advance of the end of the current parliamentary term due to the defeat of the government’s spring budget.

As part of an ongoing process of reforms, Prime Minister Luis Jiménez de Asúa included a round of tax cuts to the poor and increases on the rich. However, the UR leader Juan Ibarrola condemned the move as ‘robbery’ and whipped the UR to vote against the budget; a handful of abstentions from the PSOE and IR ranks on the government benches caused it to be overruled. While Jiménez de Asúa was theoretically entitled to amend the budget and attempt to pass it through the Congress again, he chose instead to seek a dissolution, which President Recasens granted.

The defeat over the budget, which was popular with the Spanish public, allowed the PSOE to gain considerable momentum, with Jiménez de Asúa emphasizing the potential improvement of living standards for the poor if his government secured a mandate for it. He also pointed to his government’s considerable progress in constitutional and liberalizing reforms, such as the abolition of the death penalty, popular presidential elections and regional devolution (during his first term, statutes had been granted and regional Parliaments had been created for every region which had not previously had them).

On the opposition side, PRR leader Antonio Ibáñez Friere aggressively attacked the budget and claimed it would ‘destroy’ Spanish prosperity, but his military background made him an easy target for the left. In one well-publicised speech, Jiménez de Asúa quipped that the election was ‘a choice between a Prime Minister and a general’; those to the Prime Minister’s left even more aggressively protested against Ibáñez Friere due to his nationalist support in the Civil War, with PCE leader Santiago Carrillo and FAI leader Lorenzo Íñigo both calling him a ‘fascist’ at various points in the campaign.

The result was by far the best for the PSOE since the Republic had been proclaimed, as Jiménez de Asúa won a small overall majority of 240 seats in the Congress, the first time a left-wing party had ever achieved such a feat. The PRR fell below 100 seats for the first time since before the Civil War, taking just 95, while the UR fell from 35 seats to just 4. The far-left parties also increased their seats; between them, the PCE and FAI held 40 seats.

The PSOE formed a new government with the support of the IR, now led by José Maldonado. This would be the last election in which Jiménez de Asúa led the PSOE, the last one fought by the PRR before it was reformed from the Radical Republican Party to the Republican People’s Party (Spanish: Partido Popular Republicano, PPR), and the last before the Congress reforms of 1969, in which its English title was officially changed to the Cortes and its seat count was reduced.
 
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