I'M THE FUCKING MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE...IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, GO TO RUSSIA!I was agitated as a young man in the ranks of the radical republicans, as a follower of Ruiz Zorrilla. I practised a demagogic and aggressive journalistic style in the diverse publications that I directed (El PaÃs, El Progreso, El Intransigente and El Radical).My populist and anticlerical speeches, as well as my intervention in diverse campaigns against the governments of the Restoration, made me very popular among workers in Barcelona, who later constituted the base of a loyal electorate. I was chosen as a deputy for the first time in 1901, and again in 1903 and 1905, as a member of the Republican Union party that I had helped to form with Nicolás Salmerón. The defection of Salmerón to the Catalan Solidarity coalition in 1906 led me to form the Radical Republican Party (1908) and headed the struggle against increasing Catalan nationalism. I had to go into exile on several occasions, first to escape condemnation dictated by one of his articles (1907) and later fleeing from governmental repression in response to the Tragic Week in Barcelona (1909).After returning to Spain, I was agreed to join the Socialist-Republican Conjunction, and I was elected as a deputy again in 1910. Afterwards I was involved in a series of scandals that moved me away from my Barcelona electorate, between corruption accusations (until the point of which there was a change of district, appearing for Córdoba in 1914). Under the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-30), my party was debilitated by the split with the Radical-Socialists lead by Marcelino Domingo (1929). However, I continued to be active in politics, participating in the revolutionary committee that prepared the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII and the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931.Under the republican regime I regained a leading political role. I was part of the coalition of leftists that supported the reforms of Manuel Azaña's government during the first biennium (1931-33), during which time I served as minister of State (1931). I was elected Prime Minister of the Republic on 19 November 1933, mainly because the President did not wish to name José MarÃa Gil-Robles y Quiñones, leader of the CEDA, prime minister. I sided with the right-wing opposition and became, from 1933-36, part of the conservative majority that came to power. I was named prime minister three times between 1933 and 1935 and I occupied the distinguished ministerial portfolios of War (1934) and State (1935). After distinguishing mymself in the repression of the attempted workers revolution of 1934, I was discredited again before public opinion by the Straperlo affaire (a case of corruption bound to casino authorization), that completely broke my alliance with the right and even weakened my position within the party. In the elections of 1936 I was not even elected as a deputy, and when that same year the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) exploded, I preferred to place mymself out of danger in Portugal. I returned to Spain in 1947.
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