Editing CEDA (section)

==The CEDA eclipses the republican centre==
Gil Robles set up CEDA to contest the [[1933 Spanish general election]].<ref name="corrin"/> Despite dismissing the idea of a party as a 'rigid fiction', the CEDA leaders created a stable party organisation which would lead the Spanish right into the age of mass politics.<ref>Vincent, p.202</ref> The CEDA was constructed around organisational units known as Derechas Autónomas, the first of which had been established in [[Salamanca]] in December 1932. Having accepted the "principles of Christian civilization", confederated bodies retained full freedom both of thought and of action &ndash; such a definition was framed with the [[Carlism|Carlists]] in mind. The right would work together for 'the radical transformation of the regime.'<ref>Gaceta Regional, 27 December 1932, 9 January 1933, quoted, M.Vincent, 203</ref> October 1933 announcement of a [[Snap election|snap]] [[1933 Spanish general election|general election in November]] brought about an unprecedented mobilization of the Spanish right. ''El Debate'' instructed its readers to make the coming elections into an "obsession", the "sublime culmination of citizenly duties," so that victory in the polls would bring an end to the republican ''bienio rojo''. Great emphasis was placed on the techniques of electoral campaigning. A national electoral committee was established, comprising CEDA, Alfonsist, Traditionalist, and Agrarian representatives &ndash; but excluding [[Miguel Maura]]'s Conservative Republicans. The CEDA swamped entire localities with electoral publicity. The party produced ten million leaflets, together with some two hundred thousand coloured posters and hundreds of cars were used to distribute this material through the provinces. In all of the major cities [[propaganda film]]s were shown around the streets on screens mounted on large lorries.<ref>Gil Robles, ''No fue posible la paz'' p.100</ref>