Las Fuerzas Armadas y la legalización del PCE

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Roberto Muñoz Bolaños
Universidad Camilo José Cela

The legalization of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) marked a turning point in the transition process to democracy that began with general Franco’s death in 1975. Until this moment, the Armed Forces had tacitly supported the Government of Adolfo Suárez, favouring an orderly transition from the francoist legality to a democratic régime, and maintaining the illusion of being able to supervise the Government policies. Suárez legalized the PCE, the main enemy for the francoists in the Civil War, without a previous demand of support to the military leadership, and after just a brief explanation to the chiefs of the three military Ministries. This action produced a strong refusal by the Armed Forces and broke forever the confidence between the military officers and Adolfo Suarez’s Government. These circumstances opened up the path to the putsch operations that took place in the following years, whose objective was to dismantle or moderate the democratic system.

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Armed Forces, Communist Party of Spain, Suárez’s Government, Democratic Transition

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Muñoz Bolaños, Roberto. “Las Fuerzas Armadas y la legalización del PCE”. Rubrica Contemporanea, 2013, vol.VOL 2, no. 04, pp. 101-20, https://raco.cat/index.php/rubrica/article/view/286536.
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Roberto Muñoz Bolaños, Universidad Camilo José Cela

Roberto Muñoz Bolaños has a PhD in Contemporary History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is adjunct lecturer in the Social Sciences and Education School at the Camilo José Cela University. He also teaches at the Master of Education at the Francisco de Vitoria University, and at the programme of ‘university specialist in Military History’. He is co-director, with Fernando Puell, of the Module IV Armed Peace and World Wars: 1848-194, year 2012-2013, UNED. Instituto Universitario Gutiérrez Mellado.

 

PUBLICATIONS: “La institución militar en la posguerra (1939-1945)” in PUELL DE LA VILLA, Fernando and ALDA MEJIAS, Sonia (eds.), Los ejércitos del franquismo (1939-1975), Madrid: IUGM, 2011;”’A por los golpistas’”. El fin de la involución militar y el control de las fuerzas Armadas durante el primer gobierno socialista (1982-1986)”, in SOTO CARMONA, Álvaro, and MATEOS, Abdón, Historia de la época socialista. España, 1982-1996, Madrid, UAM-UNED, 2011; “Francisco Llano de la Encomienda. General de División”, in GARCÍA FERNÁNDEZ, Javier (coord.), 25 militares de la República, Madrid, Ministerio de Defensa, 2011; Movimientos involucionistas y tramas golpistas”, in PUELL DE LA VILLA, Fernando, and ÁNGEL SANTANO, Silvia (eds.), El legado del general Gutiérrez Mellado, Madrid, IUGM, 2013;“Operación Galaxia”, in Historia del Tiempo Presente, n. 20 (2012).