WI Tejero's coup was successfull?

At 18:21 in 23 February 1981, the different coup plots that had been fomenting since the beginning of the transition to democracy met in a coordinated action. At 18:30, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejerohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Tejero, 200 Guardia Civiles armed with submachine guns interrupted the Congress of Deputies. A cameraman recorded almost half an hour of the event, providing the world with an audiovisual record of the attempt. From the rostrum, Tejero ordered everyone to be silent and wait for a competent, military authority who never came.
General Gutiérrez Mellado, acting Minister of Defence, and Adolfo Suárez ordered the insurgents to disarm. The guardia civil agents assaulted them, following the attack with numerous rounds from a submachine gun round into the ceiling. With the taking of the parliament and the dragooning of the executive and legislative powers, they sought to create a power vacuum in which to establish a new political power.
King Juan-Carlos refused to negotiate with the coup leaders and ordered the army to return to its barracks... At about 3:00 am King appeared on TV saying that the coup has failed.
WI the Tejero coup was succesful? how is this affecting Spain and History? Any thoughts?
 
For Tejero's coup to succeed, you would need to have King Juan Carlos I to actually support them, which was something as factible as Sealion succeeding, specially considering that the King had been working for so much time so that democracy triumphed in Spain. The army coupers would need to do something really drastic in order to force the King to support the coup, like taking the Royal Family hostage.
 

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For Tejero's coup to succeed, you would need to have King Juan Carlos I to actually support them, which was something as factible as Sealion succeeding, specially considering that the King had been working for so much time so that democracy triumphed in Spain. The army coupers would need to do something really drastic in order to force the King to support the coup, like taking the Royal Family hostage.

Thank you very much for this nice piece of official propaganda, but if you look less partial sources, you will find that the coup was actually made against the king, seen as a traitor to the Motherland, and that Juan Carlos, before knowing the lack of coordination of the rebels, was ready to flee from the San Javier airport. All that "the king was a hero" yadda yadda is the greatest lie of the Spanish democracy.
 
Thank you very much for this nice piece of official propaganda, but if you look less partial sources, you will find that the coup was actually made against the king, seen as a traitor to the Motherland, and that Juan Carlos, before knowing the lack of coordination of the rebels, was ready to flee from the San Javier airport. All that "the king was a hero" yadda yadda is the greatest lie of the Spanish democracy.

Perhaps it would be useful if you did mention your sources -not that I doubt them-. It is the first mention I have of a plane being ready to flee from San Javier airport, and personally I'd like to know more.

There was an article in El Economista with a list of 15 books which cover a lot of ground (alas, article in Spanish)

http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/li...-para-conocer-el-golpe-de-Estado-del-23F.html

Link to the Wikipedia article in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23F
 
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