... and the high unemployment rates and inflation. Miguel Primo went to Paris in exile, leaving Alfonso to resume power. Hard times caused the Spanish people to call for political, social, economic, and agrarian reforms. Alfonso, once again unable to control his country, eventually agreed to democratic elections in 1931. It was the first time for nearly sixty years that free elections ... of April, 1931. The newly elected government failed to suffice the poor who were still hungry and landless, and a large economic crisis developed in Spain scaring people of all political sides. A significa...

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