Editing Indalecio Prieto (section)

==Second Spanish Republic==
When the [[Second Spanish Republic]] was proclaimed on April 14, 1931, Prieto was named finance minister in the provisional government, presided by [[Niceto Alcalá-Zamora]].<ref>Beevor, Antony. ''The battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939''. Penguin Books. London. 2006. p. 21</ref>
[[File:Diferentes personalidades en la plaza de 'El Txofre', entre ellas se encuentran Niceto Alcalá Zamora y el ministro de Obras Públicas Indalecio Prieto (1 de 3) - Fondo Marín-Kutxa Fototeka.jpg|thumb|left|Prieto along [[Niceto Alcalá-Zamora]] and other personalities in the [[San Sebastián]] bullring (1932).]]
As Minister of Public Works in the 1931–1933 government of [[Manuel Azaña]], he continued and expanded the policy of [[hydroelectric]] projects that had been begun during the Primo de Rivera dictatorship,<ref>Jackson, Gabriel. ''The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939''. Princeton University Press. 1967. Princeton. pp. 91–92</ref> as well as the ambitious plan of infrastructural improvements in Madrid, such as the new [[Madrid Chamartín railway station|Chamartín railway station]] and the tunnel under Madrid linking it to [[Madrid Atocha railway station|Atocha railway station]]. Most of those works that would not be completed until after the 1936–1939 [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref>Jackson, Gabriel. ''The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939''. Princeton University Press. 1967. Princeton. p. 93</ref>

Unlike Largo Caballero, he opposed the [[general strike]] and the [[anarchism in Spain#Asturias|failed armed rising]] in October 1934,{{dubious|date=January 2019}} but he again fled to France to escape possible prosecution.<ref>Thomas, Hugh. ''The Spanish Civil War''. Penguin Books.London. 2001. p. 126</ref> Before the republic, Prieto had arguably maintained a more radical line than Largo Caballero, but he would now be identified as a relative moderate and opposed Largo Caballero's more revolutionary tendency.

Prieto gave a thrilling campaign speech in [[Cuenca, Spain|Cuenca]] on 1 May 1936, prior to the 3 May repetition of the February 1936 election in the district in which the Popular Front would face among the right-wing rival [[José Antonio Primo de Rivera]] and, after the resignation of General [[Francisco Franco]] as candidate, [[Manuel Casanova]].{{Sfn|López Villaverde|1999|p=16}} He brought [[Regenerationist]] memories and proposed [[Keynesian]] measures to develop the domestic market of the country.{{Sfn|López Villaverde|1999|p=18}} In words directed towards the firebrand faction of Largo Cabrello, Prieto asked for moderation, discipline and the disregarding of revolutionary excesses that would put the democratic government in peril.{{Sfn|López Villaverde|1999|p=18}} The speech in which Prieto also displayed a deep sense of patriotism (he claimed to "carry Spain within his heart" and "in the marrow of his bones"{{Sfn|López Villaverde|1999|p=17}}) was celebrated by the republican press, and it was received well even by José Antonio, then in prison. However, it was met with hostility among the radicals, deepening the rupture within the party.{{Sfn|López Villaverde|1999|p=18}}

[[File:Gobfrlargcabsept1936.jpg|thumb|right|Prieto (third on the right), during a meeting of the Council of Ministers, presided by [[Francisco Largo Caballero|Largo Caballero]] (1936).]]