Dismissal of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora

The power struggle between the various parties of the Left, so recently united in victory in the 1936 elections, has already come to a head. Wary of President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora's centrist and compromising policies, his alienated supporters in the Cortes judged the very dissolution of the Cortes that resulted in the elections to be unconstitutional, and dismissed him from office. In Alcalá-Zamora's stead, the Cortes has elected his old rival, Manuel Azaña, who now has inherited the unenviable task of bringing back stability to the increasingly-polarizing Spanish political scene.