When Exempt sickened of flebitis and it was entered in a hospital, 9 of July, the liberalization esperanzas seemed be rallied by short time. It were thought with certain optimism that maybe the Commander could resign in favor of Juan Carlos. 19 of July, Exempt delegated powers, provisionally, in the Principe: it was an experience humiliate you for him. Exempt showed a notable tenacity, and 30 of July abandoned the hospital, and without losing time reasumió their/its powers. 2 of September was ending officially the learning of the Principe. The principal effect of the episode were that accelerated the march toward a widest unit of the left.
A Socialistic Party revigorizado, under Felipe González, was beginning to be reorganizeed and, in an attempt of earning the initiative, the Communist Party answered to the news of the Franc disease launching, 30 of July, the Democratic Board, that was gathering Worker Commissions, small split Popular Socialist (PSP), Carlista and a great number of independent, among those which the most notable was Bald Rafael Serer.
In spite the not participation of the PSOE and of various Christian groups - democrat, the Board was a very important advertising blow for the communists. And returned to agree the interest in their/its/your/his Agreement by the Freedom. The persons not belonging to party began to consider to the Board as an alternative potential, in a moment in which the legitimacy of the regime was beginning to be cracked. An intelligent diplomacy provided to the Board the general recognition as the principal opposition force, and at the same time galvanized to the PSOE and compelled to him/her/you to accomplish greater efforts.
The communist idea, too optimistic, of the fact that an inspirational national strike by the Board would lead to the setting-up of a democratic provisional Government, was wrong. However, the búnker saw thus confirmed their/its/your/his conviction in the need of employing defensive tacticss and to burn until the last cassette. Because of this, when Arias Navarro announced, 10 of September, that was decided still to carry forward their/its/your/his program of the 12 of February and to legalize the political associations for before January of 1975, was found with a ferocious opposition.
The opportunity provided it the attempt with pumps against the cafeteria Rolando, of Madrid, 13 of September. According to the Fight book Falcón, Friday and 13 in the street of the Mail, was tried to an irresponsible operation executed by a command of ETA and some simpatizantes of Madrid. The cafeteria was a place frequented by policemen and there were several members of this body among the eleven dead and more than seventy injured.
Immediately it was unfettered a leftists roundup and simpatizantes of the terrorists. The political reaction arrived little after: began with a fit of Blas Piñar in Force New. Afterwards, when to Exempt was presented to him/her/you a dossier on presumably pornographic and left-wing literature permitted by the Information minister, the ultra could persuade to him/her/you of the fact that insisted on the resignation of the Pious minister Cabanillas, on the base of the fact that had opened the press and the media to the - " red " -.
It was precisely this victory of the ultra the one which revealed the real crisis of the system, upon convincing many elements of the regime that they had to opt for the reforms if were wishing to guarantee their/its/your/his own survival. That revelation of the bankruptcy of the regime provoked a meaningful resignations wave. The exit of the undersecretary of Cabanillas, Marcelino Ear, and of the general director of RTVE, Juan José Rosón, it was followed by the massive resignation by high Christian Democratic officials protest of the regime, belonging to the Tacit group. Yet more meaningful were the resignations of the president of the branch of the ITT in Spain, turning out to be an excellent barometer from opinion for Spain as well as for the world from the multinational companies.
In similar context, the continuous Aria efforts to carry forward the reforms were seeming increasingly useless. 16 of December was approved the Associations Statute by the National Council of the Movement. Hardly there was some respect improvement of the statute Solís. On the one hand, the new Statute gave to the associations a certain degree of electoral existence. Additionally, it were demanded that the associations had at least 25.000 members, distributed in a minimum of 15 provinces, excluyéndose the associations of regional type. Furthermore, since their/its/your/his authorization was remaining in hands of the National Council, they were obligated obviously to accept the legitimacy of the existing regime. Nevertheless, Arias prosiguió with their/its efforts to endow to their/its/your/his government of a liberal glaze.
Their/its/your/his problem were that the successes of the búnker were accelerating the process by wide the one which sectors of the Spanish oligarchy were beginning already to imitate to the opposition in their/its democratization demands. During 194 were carried out practically public meetings among prominent industrial and financial, on the one hand, and personalities of the tolerated opposition, by bull. Among the most famous are those which took place in the hotel Ritz of Barcelona and in house of Joaquín Garrigues in Aravaca (Madrid). Garrigues was a person of the most meaningful figures of the Spanish capitalism, and in several occasions had been representative of various multinational corporations; was not making any secret of their/its/your/his conviction of the fact that the political liberalization had to be a risk that there was that to run in order to avoid a catastrophic confrontation. As soon as resigned of their/its numerous charges of companies director to be devoted to the creation of a political party. The activity of the civilized right coincided with a aplastante trend toward the unit in the left.
