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Moncloa Pacts

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Inflation did fall and the deficit showed a marked fall but unemployment kept rising and there was no reduction in strikes. In addition there was no oversight of the promises for structural reforms and many were shelved or were cut dramatically. The success of the Pacts was more political than social
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The agreements meant that the unions and the left would accept a wage freeze and moderate their demands in return for promises of fiscal, legal and institutional reform such as a property tax and income tax, parliamentary control of the media, measures to put a break on housing speculation, a review
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faced many economic issues when it was elected in June 1977. These included the petrol crisis of 1973 (which had taken some time to reach Spain), the rise of unemployment to 7% exacerbated by a return of emigres to Spain after the death of
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or economic as the left accepted thereby that their claims in future would be "bound by the constraints of the market economy" and the Government had the legitimacy and consensus to move forward with drafting the Constitution.
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were at first opposed to the proposals for a pact. However the CNT was the only body who wholly rejected it.
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which sometimes took a confrontational stance in the face of a wage freeze and devaluation of the peseta.
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of the Military Justice Code and improved social security and free education.
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in the last years of the dictatorship, businesses that had become used to the
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Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy After Franco
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at Suárez's behest engaged in talks with the newly legalized unions such as
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1977 economic and political pacts during Spanish transition to democracy
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Index

Spanish
Spanish transition to democracy
Palacio de la Moncloa
Unión General de Trabajadores
Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores
first democratically elected government
Franco
capital flight
corporatism
interventionism
unions
Adolfo Suárez
Felipe González
Santiago Carrillo
Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
constituent assembly
Enrique Fuentes Quintana
General Union of Workers
Workers' Commissions
General Union of Workers
CNT
Pact of Forgetting
Wassenaar Agreement


Casanova & Gil Andrés 2014
Casanova & Gil Andrés 2014
Casanova & Gil Andrés 2014
Powell 2001
Casanova, Julián

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