WI: Spain a republic after Franco death

What if Spain adopted a republican form of government just after Franco death in 1975 (suppose that Juan Carlos or other Bourbon never is crowned)
 
I'm think this might make a generals coup more likely to succeed but other than that I'm not sure.
 
Maybe a POD where the Royalist faction in the civil war fights with the anarchists, socialists, and republicans against Francoist forces? Then Franco wouldn't like the monarchy too much.

Well you would have to have a really early POD, because it was a Carlist who founded the Falange and the Nationalist force was predominantly supported by the same people who supported the Monarchy. That said, the Nationalists could have possibly illuminated the Carlists pretty quietly after winning the war. Franco could have used any number of reasons to explain why the Imperials were a threat to the throne.
 
Maybe a POD where the Royalist faction in the civil war fights with the anarchists, socialists, and republicans against Francoist forces? Then Franco wouldn't like the monarchy too much.

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Maybe a POD where the Royalist faction in the civil war fights with the anarchists, socialists, and republicans against Francoist forces? Then Franco wouldn't like the monarchy too much.

The royalists tended to be old conservatives and especially military men like Franco.

The leftists all hated each other and planned to betray each other at some point or another but that was only because they hated the order that the royalists and their allies represented more.
 
Question: a modern Spanish republic after 1975 would survive or the old wounds of the Civil War and separatism would sink the country?
 
In 1975, and until the coup attempt in 1981 where Juan Carlos showed the entire world and Spain's political class that he was a true believer in democracy, the King was seen in the beginning as nothing less than Franco's puppet, the true continuation of the dictatorship. Maybe a harder left comes in power earlier, before Juan Carlos can claim himself as the true embodiment of Spanish nation and democracy; or, if we follow the Fear, Loathing and Gumbo scenario where the Carnation Revolution leads to a communist Portugal and gives shudders to Spanish generals, where the democratic process is stopped, and so the establishment of democracy would overthrow the monarchy as well.

Having Juan Carlos siding with the coupsters in 1981 is impossible to imagine, unless you change the King's behaviour, or if the coupsters are more powerful than the nostalgic rabble they were. Maybe if you have a different successor to Franco, more likely to get puppetized by the Francoists, such as Count Juan of Barcelona, Juan Carlos' father, or the latter's younger brother Alfonso, who died in a freak accident when he was a child.
 
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