Editing CEDA (section)

{{Short description|1933–1937 political party in Spain}}
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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights
| native_name      = Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas
| logo             = CEDA_Party_Logo.svg
| colorcode        = {{party color|Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights}}
| leader           = [[José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones]]
| founded          = 4 March 1933
| dissolved        = 19 April 1937
| predecessor      = [[Popular Action (Spain)|Popular Action]]
| merged           = [[FET y de las JONS]]
| headquarters     = [[Madrid]], [[Spain]]
| newspaper        = ''El Debate''
| youth_wing       = ''[[Juventudes de Acción Popular]]''
| membership_year  = 1933
| membership       = 700,000 (party's claim)<ref name=Blinkhorn>{{Citation |first=Martin |last=Blinkhorn |title=Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1932–1939 |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |page=15}}</ref>
| ideology         = [[National conservatism]]<ref name=Blinkhorn2>{{Citation |first=Martin |last=Blinkhorn |title=Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1932–1939 |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |page=140}}</ref><br />[[Catholic Church and politics|Political Catholicism]]<ref name=Blinkhorn/><br>[[Accidentalism and catastrophism|Accidentalism]]<br>[[Corporatism]]
| position         = [[Right-wing]]{{cref|A}}
| colors           = {{color box|{{party color|Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right}}}} [[Blue (color)|Blue]]
| flag             = CEDA flag.svg
| country          = Spain
| footnotes        = {{cnote|A|Also described as [[centre-right]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Democracy's Breakdown and the Rise of Fascism: The Case of the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-6 |first=Sara |last=Schatz |journal=Social History |volume=26 |issue=2 |date=May 2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd. |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4286762 |page=146 |jstor=4286762 |quote="In this first two-year period or bienio, the abandonment of support by the Radical Party led to the parliamentary victory and the governance of the nation by the centre-right, CEDA, and other rightist groups (September 1933)."}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |journal=Comparative Politics |volume=8 |issue=3 |department=Special Issue on Peasants and Revolution |date=April 1976 |title=Patterns of Land Tenure, Division of Labor, and Voting Behavior in Europe |first=Juan J. |last=Linz |author-link=Juan J. Linz |quote="Under the republic (1931-36), these regions constituted the stronghold of the Catholic center-right CEDA, led by Gil Robles." |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/421406 |page=402|doi=10.2307/421406 |jstor=421406 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/01/the-road-to-revolution |title=The Road to Revolution |first=Stanley G. |last=Payne |date=January 2021 |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison |website=[[First Things]] |author-link=Stanley G. Payne}}</ref> and [[Far-right politics|far-right]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alexander |first=Robert Jackson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zaaRvUxm0ZAC&dq=%22far-right+ceda%22&pg=PA78 |title=The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War |date=1999 |publisher=Janus Publishing Company Lim |isbn=978-1-85756-400-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mansell |first=Richard |date=2012 |title=Rebuilding a culture, or raising the defences?: Majorca and translation in the interwar period |url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7252910 |journal=Revista Internacional de Catalanística = Journal of Catalan Studies |issue=15 |pages=6 |issn=1139-0271 |quote=Yet 1933 sees an end to this; the majority party is the far-right CEDA, and the Spanish political scene becomes increasingly polarised.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Laffond |first=José Carlos Rueda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yI-HDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22extrema+derecha+ceda%22&pg=PT303 |title=Memoria Roja: Una historia cultural de la memoria comunista en España, 1936-1977 |date=2019-02-12 |publisher=Universitat de València |isbn=978-84-9134-383-7 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Webster |first=Jason |author-link=Jason Webster (author) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxj5q_CBPicC&dq=%22ceda%22%22far-right%22&pg=PA72 |title=Guerra |date=2010-08-03 |publisher=Transworld |isbn=978-1-4070-9488-5 |language=en}}</ref>}}
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{{Conservatism in Spain|Parties}}
The '''Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas''' ({{literal translation|Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights}}, '''CEDA''') was a Spanish [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keefe |first=Eugene K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6uSWE3EYvBkC&dq=%22ceda%22%22right-wing%22&pg=PA40 |title=Area Handbook for Spain |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-16-001567-0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Amir |first=Ruth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HPd7DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22ceda%22%22far-right%22&pg=PA162 |title=Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers: Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention |date=2018-11-27 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4985-5734-4}}</ref> [[political party]] in the [[Second Spanish Republic]].<ref name="Beevor 2006">{{cite book|last=Beevor|first=Antony|author-link=Antony Beevor|title=The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939|page=[https://archive.org/details/battleforspainsp00anto/page/ xxx]|publisher=Penguin Group|date=2006|isbn=978-0-14-303765-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/battleforspainsp00anto/page/}}</ref> A [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[Conservatism|conservative]] force, it was the political heir to [[Ángel Herrera Oria]]'s [[Popular Action (Spain)|Acción Popular]] and defined itself in terms of the 'affirmation and defence of the principles of [[Christian civilization]],' translating this theoretical stand into a political demand for the revision of the anti-Catholic passages of the republican constitution. CEDA saw itself as a defensive organisation, formed to protect [[religious toleration]], family, and [[Property rights (economics)|private property rights]].<ref>Mary Vincent, Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic, Chapter 9, p. 202</ref>

The CEDA claimed that it was defending the [[Catholic Church in Spain]] and [[Christian civilization]] against [[authoritarian socialism]], [[state atheism]], and [[religious persecution]].<ref name="Paul Preston 2007. Pp. 62">Paul Preston. ''The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution & Revenge''. 3rd edition. New York: Norton & Company, Inc, 2007. 2006 p. 62.</ref> It would ultimately become the most popular individual party in Spain in the [[1936 Spanish general election|1936 elections]].<ref name="Payne, Stanley G 1975. p.46">Payne, Stanley G. The Franco Regime, 1936–1975. University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, p. 46</ref> The party represented the interests of the Catholic voters as well as the rural population of Spain, most prominently the medium and small peasants and landowners.<ref name="linzs"/> The party sought the restoration of the powerful role of the Catholic Church that existed in Spain before the establishment of the Republic, and based their program solely on Catholic teaching, calling for land redistribution and industrial reform based on the [[distributist]] and corporatist ideals of [[Rerum Novarum]] and [[Quadragesimo Anno]].<ref name="corrin"/>