Interregional Commission for Development

OPPOSITION TO THE SCHEME AND THE AGONY OF Franco.
1.The new "political families" and institutional reforms:
0 During the 60s there was no political opening, despite the changes and improvements in the economic situation The scheme aims to improve its image and show a spirit of openness.
0 In 1962 after asking Spain to join the EEC, a liberal group on the right met in Munich - Munich Conspiracy - and asked not to be admitted to Spain until he had freedoms, prompting a huge scandal. That year the new government came into youth ministers: Fraga, Lopez shot and Lopez Bravo, the latter ofOPUS. This government introduced small changes to the scheme: I Development Plan (1964-69), Act on Social Security Databases, 1963, Law Press, 1966 (Fraga), and endorsed by referendum, manipulated the Organic Law of State, 1966, failed attempt to create a constitution. This law came down the hopes of liberalization and openness reaffirmed authoritarianism. Finally, in 1969 Juan Carlos was proclaimed successor as King. Major changes of the decade were the elevation to the papacy of John XXIII, nationalist tensions and the emergence ofterrorism
2. Increased conflict and opposition
Since the late 50s the opposition was strengthened by organizing on several fronts:
1 .- estrangement between the Church and the regime after the Second Vatican Council and the new atmosphere of tolerance and freedom. 2. "The UMD (Democratic Military Union) created by army officers in 1974. 3 .- Nationalist tensions. The nationalist parties were revitalized historical and appeared two new: Euskadi ta Askatasuna (Euskadi and Freedom), ETA, which emerged from a split from the PNV in 1959 and the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia(CDC), 1974, J. Pujol, who was arrested in 1960.


4 .- disputes: in the sixties, there were numerous strikes in the mining, steel and construction. They start in the Asturian mining, where there is first commission working. In Madrid in 1964 creating the Commission of Metal, source CCOO trade union movement semiclandestine mass that infiltrates the hegemonizaría official unions and social unrest of the period. Traditional unions lost weight compared to those created by M. CCOO Camacho
5 .- Protests by university students (bearded, gray-called) were demanding increased democratic freedoms. The most important took place in 1965.
6 .- The opposition political parties illegal: the biggest deployment was the PCE, S. Carrillo, a supporter of Eurocommunism defending the need for national reconciliation and democracy. The PSOE renewed its leadership in Congress in Suresnes, 1974, with leaders inside the country and Felipe González.
The Christian Democratic parties of the center together, minority leaders of prestige, as Gil Robles, more moderate, and Joaquin Ruiz Jiménez, founder of the Cuadernos for dialogue, very critical of the regime. Participated in 1962 in the famous Munich Conspiracy.