Provisional Government of the Second Spanish Republic

Date formed14 April 1931

Date dissolved11 December 1931

PresidentVacant

Prime MinisterNiceto Alcalá-Zamora (April-Oct 1931)
Manuel Azaña (Oct - Dec 1931)

Provisional Government of the Spanish Republic
Government of Spain
1931
Provisional Government
Date formed	14 April 1931
Date dissolved	11 December 1931
People and organisations
President	Vacant
Prime Minister	Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (April-Oct 1931) Manuel Azaña (Oct - Dec 1931)
Total no. of members	12
Member parties	Republican Action   Spanish Socialist Workers' Party   Radical Republican Party   Radical Socialist Republican Party   Autonomous Galician Republican Organization   Catalan Republican Action   Liberal Republican Right (until Oct 1931)
Status in legislature	Majority (multi-party)
Opposition parties	National Action   Traditionalist Communion   Agrarian Group   Revolutionary Radical Socialist Republican Party   Liberal Democrat Republican Party   Liberal Republican Right (from Oct 1931)
Opposition leader	José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones
History
Election	1931 Spanish general election
Predecessor	Aznar-Cabañas
Successor	Azaña II

The Provisional Government of the Second Spanish Republic (Spanish: Gobierno Provisional de la Segunda República Española) was the government that held political power in Spain from the fall of Alfonso XIII of Spain on 14 April 1931 and the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic until the approval of the Spanish Constitution of 1931 on 9 December and the formation of the first regular government on 15 December. The King's departure created the need for a provisional government, whose first president was Niceto Alcalá Zamora, who presided until 1936, when Manuel Azaña took over. The new constitution established freedom of speech, freedom of association, extended voting privileges to women, allowed divorce, and stripped the Spanish nobility of their special legal status.^[1]