FROM SUPERVISED MONARCHY TO PARLIAMENTARY MONARCHY

Abstract

This article deals with the Spanish political situation following the Civil War of 1936-1939 and the attitude of three of its main actors towards a future that took a long time to arrive: don Juan de Borbón, son of Alfonso XIII, who claimed his right to the Crown; the dictator Franco Bahamonde, who preferred the son of the «aspirant»; and Juan Carlos I de Borbón, who initiated and achieved –with the approval of the Western democracies, with the participation of the internal democratic political organizations as well as with a weak opposition of the declining authoritarian political organizations–, that Spain acquired a State of Law, with a proper and progressist Constitution. Some legally and politically debatable pages were written in this process, and a major mistake was made in regulating the Regency in Title II.