Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez and Democratic Left: A democratic
A democratic an Christian utopia for the Spanish Transition
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https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.2024.AL.13Abstract
During late Francoism, Christian democracy appeared as one of the ideologies with the greatest political options in the new democratic scenario that would open up after Franco’s death. These expectations very soon turned to the figure who at that time embodied the highest representation of this spectrum, Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, president of Democratic Left (ID). Despite such expectations, the forecasts were never fulfilled. Through unpublished material from Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez’s personal archive, this article aims to take a journey through the history of ID, from when Ruiz-Giménez assumed its presidency in 1969, until the party dissolved in 1979. The objective is to analyze the ideological and strategic problems of the formation, the relations and searches for confluences with other political parties, the difficulties introduced by the Spanish political context and the singular personality of Ruiz-Giménez, in order to understand the reasons for one of the most striking failures of the Transition.
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