Mourning democracy in modern Spain

If I had been in Madrid last week, I would have doubtless lined up, with tens of thousands of madrileños, to pay my respects to Adolfo Suárez, the first elected prime minister of post-Francoist Spain, who died on March 23 at the age of 81.

An up-and-coming bureaucrat in Franco’s regime, Suárez recognised, upon the dictator’s death, that things would now be able to change. He also recognised that they had to. After being parachuted into the prime ministership by King Juan Carlos in 1976, he quickly announced that elections would be forthcoming: “The point of departure,” he told parliament that year, “is the recognition of pluralism in our society. We cannot allow ourselves the luxury of ignoring it.”

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