The Liberal-Conservative Party (Partido Liberal-Conservador) was a Spanish political party founded in 1876 by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo. Its other names include Partido Conservador, Partido Canovista, Partido Silvelista, Partido Maurista and Partido Dadista.
Castillo called it liberal due to the state system which it defended, always complying with the Spanish Constitution of 1876 that Cánovas had drafted and the purest tradition of Spain and ...
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The Liberal-Conservative Party (Partido Liberal-Conservador) was a Spanish political party founded in 1876 by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo. Its other names include Partido Conservador, Partido Canovista, Partido Silvelista, Partido Maurista and Partido Dadista.
Castillo called it liberal due to the state system which it defended, always complying with the Spanish Constitution of 1876 that Cánovas had drafted and the purest tradition of Spain and Europe since the 1830s. The Conservative tag was for the type of ideas which, when thinking of questions of state, then dominated in Spain.
The political formation of Spain by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo at the request of Alfonso XII of Spain, who assumed the crown after the failure of the First Spanish Republic. The Liberal-Conservative Party brought together a varied group of people, from the supporters of Isabel II of Spain prior to the Republic to the members of the Liberal Union he had formed. Its existence was linked to Cánovas himself...
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