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It has a bad reputation and has been synonymous with disorder, chaos and bad government. The monarchies and dictatorships that have dominated Spain during the last century and a half offered a biased and unfair vision of the First Republic, which barely lasted two years in a turbulent period (1873-1874). Its internal divisions, the need to face two wars (the Cuban and the Carlist) and the reaction of conservative sectors caused the failure of a republic that, despite everything, recognized extensive rights and freedoms for the first time and approved universal male suffrage, among other very avant-garde measures for the time.
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