Franco's Spain: Family Policies and Power Dynamics

Family Policies and Power Dynamics in Franco's Spain

Within a complete subordination to the Leader, there were different families or groups with different political sensitivity, never parties, as in the Franco regime political parties were banned. Falange was only allowed, but defining it as a party was banned so that became known as the National Movement. Each family tried to influence the decisions of Franco, and the ability of this was to entrust parcels to conveniently measures, supported successively one family or another as appropriate at all times, moving from the foreground to those made uncomfortable by some internal or external reason and thus ensured their presence in power unchallenged. When a scandal broke out in some way be attributed to fears among the families, Franco opted for speedy solutions and twisted.

The Military

Many of the rebel leaders were collaborators of Franco after the war and remained at his side all the time. It was not until the last moment, defenders of the regime and its legal system. His activity was confined to the defense of Spanish territory, but had jurisdiction over political crimes by the "councils of war." Most, especially senior officers, shared the ideology of Franco's victory in 1939: anti-communism, separatism and their rejection of hardness in two issues of public policy.

The Falange

Transformed into a National Movement, the phalanges of the Franco era had little to do with the party he had founded José Antonio. Dead leader and marginalized the old leaders, the statutes gave Franco the single leadership of the party, which will become a large pool of members of the régimen. Sus leaders were known as "national syndicalism", "blue" or simply "Falange". His ideology was close to that of German Nazism or Italian fascism. They sought to establish an authoritarian dictatorship, centralized and controlled by a single party, the Falange. In the early years, Falangists occupied the posts of the regime, but the defeat of the totalitarian powers in World War II was that, little by little, their presence in the government were decline. They also controlled the press and society from their organizations:

• Women's Section: This institution was formed by the female branch of the Spanish Falange. Since its inception, it was directed by Pilar Primo de Rivera. He shared both the thinking and the aesthetics of this game. Its mission was to train women with a Christian and nationalist outlook.
• Youth Front: Spanish are different youth organizations created by the Franco regime for the framework and indoctrination of young people according to the principles of the National Movement.
• Spanish Union University: Intended to be an instrument of public control of the university.

Little by little, will undergo a process of elimination of ideologies and become a party, the National Movement, strongly hierarchical and total loyalty to Franco. At its head was the National Council of the Movement, which brought together the various national leaders from each region chosen by Franco. Then there was a whole range of leaders at provincial and local levels.

The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church played an important role in legitimizing and construction of the Franco regime, which was defined as a Catholic confessional state. In exchange for this support, the church received very generous public funding, the nearly total control of the education system and the predominance of Catholic values and morals in society as a whole. A close alliance was produced between church and New State: the bishops participating institutions such as the Council of the Kingdom and the Courts and the Chief of the Pope had a short list for the election of the bishop in her church each diócesis.La also create associations or pressure groups Catholic inspiration of influence they enjoyed as

a) The first time was the National Catholic Association of Propagandists, created by the Jesuit Ángel Ayala to try and impart ideas of the Catholic Church within society. During the Second Republic promoted the creation of political parties allied to the Church as People's Action, which is then integrated into the CEDA. After the Civil War, men of the ACNP not form anything like a party, were a group of Catholics who sought