Cortes Republicanas

The Cortes Republicanas (English: Republican Courts), officially called Cortes – also called the Congreso de los Diputados (English: Congress of Deputies) – were the unicameral legislature of the Second Spanish Republic between 1931 and 1939. After the end of the Civil War they met several times in exile, the last in 1945.

Republican Courts

Cortes Republicanas
History
Established14 July 1931
DisbandedFebruary 1939
Leadership
Julián Besteiro (1931–1933)
Santiago Alba Bonifaz (1933–1936)
Diego Martínez Barrio (1936–1939)
Meeting place
Palacio de las Cortes, Carrera de San Jerónimo, Madrid
Footnotes
  1. During the civil war they met on an itinerant basis in Valencia and Catalonia.
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