Everything about Santiago Casares Quiroga totally explained
Santiago Casares Quiroga (
A Coruña,
Galicia,
May 8,
1884 –
Paris,
February 17,
1950) was a
Spanish politician who was
Prime Minister of Spain from
May 13 to
July 19 1936.
Leader and founder of the Autonomous Galician Republican Organization (ORGA), a Galician regionalist party, Casares participated in the Pact of San Sebastián in 1930, a platform composed of the principal parties of the republican opposition which aimed to bring down the monarchy of
Alfonso XIII. He served as representative of the Galician Republican Federation, a republican group formed by his ORGA along with other Galician republican forces such as the Radical Party, the federalists and the radical-socialists.
In December 1930, he was sent clandestinely to
Jaca as a delegate of the National Revolutionary Committee (CRN), to prevent Captain Fermín Galán Rodríguez from rising the Jaca garrison in advance of the date agreed by the CRN. Casares Quiroga didn't arrive in time to stop Galán, and the rising took place without success. As a result, Casares Quiroga was imprisoned.
With the proclamation of the
Republic in April 1931, he was named Minister of Marine in the provisional government, and later was minister of Governance (Interior). He was elected a deputy for ORGA in the Constituent Cortes, and remained Minister of Governance during the socialist-republican biennium (1931-1933) in the government of
Manuel Azaña, Casares’ personal friend.
He was reelected to the Cortes in 1933, and in 1934 joined his party (now the Galician Republican Party) with Azaña’s and others to create the
Republican Left, a party which would then become a part of the
Popular Front. Casares Quiroga was again reelected in February 1936 and was named Minister of Public Works. After Azaña became President of the Republic in May, Casares Quiroga became Prime Minister and Minister of War. As prime minister, he organized the referendum on the Galician Statute of Autonomy (the third statute of autonomy under the Republic, after
Catalonia and the
Basque Country), which was approved on 28 June 1936.
He was serving as prime minister when the military uprising of 17 July 1936 took place, which then developed into the
Spanish Civil War. Incapable of confronting the uprising, Casares resigned and was replaced by
Diego Martínez Barrio, whose government was never confirmed, and then definitely by
José Giral. Historians have generally agreed that Casares refused to deliver arms to the revolutionary workers’ organizations as the right-wing uprising unfolded. The memoirs of his daughter María Casares confirm this.
He didn't hold any other office during the Civil War, and left for France along with Azaña and Martínez Barrio after the fall of Catalonia. He died in exile in 1950.
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