page_title: Conservative Party (Spain)
section_title: The final years (1923–31)
hierarchical_section_title: Conservative Party (Spain) / History / The final years (1923–31)
caption_attribution_description: English: Spanish Politician Juan de la Cierva y Peñafiel
context_page_description: The Liberal Conservative Party, simply called Conservative Party, was a Spanish political party founded in 1876 by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.
context_section_description: With the coup by General Miguel Primo de Rivera in September 1923 and the subsequent establishment of the Dictatorship, the Conservative Party and its leaders were distanced from political life until 1930, when the party again became part of the last government of the monarchy, presided over by Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar, who put Juan de la Cierva y Peñafiel at the head of the Ministry of Public Works in 1930-1931, already considered the leader of the Conservatives. Silvela, Maura and Dato had died; Sánchez de Toca declined to form part of the last governments of Alfonso XIII and even declined to be prime minister; and other politicians of liberal-conservative origin such as Miguel Maura and Santiago Alba had joined the ranks of the conservative republicans.
  The results of the municipal elections of April 1931 reflected that neither the Liberal nor the Conservative Party had support among the population, and that their power was more artificial than real. With the proclamation of the Second Republic on April 14, 1931, Juan de la Cierva y Peñafiel tried certainly to prevent Alfonso XIII from going into exile, but it was useless.
  The Conservative Party disappeared shortly after the proclamation of the Republic.
caption: Juan de la Cierva Peñafiel
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