The 19th Century Mancheguismo
The first attempt to constitute a legally separate and distinct reality is related to the minority federalist movement. In the midst of political turmoil caused by the " Glorious Revolution "in September 1869, delegates of the Federal Republican Party in the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca and Toledo, among whom were prominent local leaders such as José María Villamar federalism (Alcázar de San Juan) and Juan Molero (Ciudad Real), signed in Alcázar de San Juan the Federal Pact Manchego. However, the representatives of federalism in these provinces, along with those in Madrid and Guadalajara, had signed in June of that year the Federal Pact Castilian, showing the duality that has existed between the forces of regionalism and the Spanish state.
The federal formula again reactivated on the occasion of the proclamation of the First Republic, when the pictures Republicans went to work to organize their bases and work towards the consolidation of the new system. So has the meeting for this purpose were some members of the Federal Board in early March 1873. So they decided to form a sort of permanent committee based in Alcázar de San Juan . The abrupt end of the First Republic ended the federalist proposals.
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