Liberal Left (Spain)

Liberal Left Izquierda Liberal
Leader	Santiago Alba
Founded	November 1917/Early 1918
Dissolved	1923 (1923)
Split from	Liberal Party
Ideology	LiberalismMonarchism
Political position	Centre-left
Politics of Spain Political parties Elections

The Liberal Left (Spanish: Izquierda Liberal, IL), formally the Monarchist Liberal Left (Spanish: Izquierda Liberal Monárquica), was a political party led by Santiago Alba which split from the Liberal Party between November 1917 and early 1918, following the crisis in the government of the Count of Romanones.^[1][2] As finance minister under Romanones, Alba had gained prominence by leading a liberal legislative programme of tax reforms, public investments, improvements in the Public Treasury administration and fighting tax fraud, but his agenda was blocked by the obstructionist and filibustering opposition from the Regionalist League under Francesc Cambó.^[3]

The party was disestablished in 1923 following Miguel Primo de Rivera's coup d'état.

See also

• La Libertad (Spain)

References

1. Martorell Linares, Miguel (2022). "Historia Hispánica. Personajes: Santiago Alba y Bonifaz". historia-hispanica.rah.es (in Spanish). Royal Academy of History. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
2. Lozano, Carles. "Liberales (y Progresistas) (1868-1931)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2025.
3. Martorell Linares 1997, pp. 152–154.

Bibliography

• Martorell Linares, Miguel Ángel (1997). "La crisis parlamentaria de 1913-1917. La quiebra del sistema de relaciones parlamentarias de la Restauración". Revista de Estudios Políticos (in Spanish) (96). Madrid: Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies: 137–161. ISSN 0048-7694. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2025-08-25.