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The result of an AH conversation I had recently: the parties of a surviving First Spanish Republic... in its final, Centralist form.

It goes like this: The details of the Virginius Incident change so it happens in 1874, with Serrano and his Republican dictatorship on. He settles the issue with the British, but he adopts a much more hawkish attitude towards the US. An earlier Spanish-American war erupts, and this time, with much more equilibrated forces than in our '98, Spain wins. The morale boost legitimizes Serrano and makes Cánovas reconsider his plans for a Bourbon restoration. Eventually, the concentration government results in a constitutional convention that seals the fate of Spain as a Unitarian republic, and the Radicals and the Constitutionalists spend the subsequent decades trying to keep the Federalists down and out, for their victory would jeopardize the new order, which only, joined to the fact this Republic banned Marxist parties for decades, radicalized their cause and linked it to the worker's movement. The Carlists, meanwhile, lost steam as time went by, eventually fusing with other Traditionalist parties, just to evolve towards a quite particular form of Christian democracy that agglutinates the rural Conservatives and the interests of the regions and nationalities, devoid of representation. Meanwhile, the Moderates resist, first as the main Monarchist ticket, and later evolving towards a mix of National Populism with their traditional, extremely vertical conception of governance, thus establishing themselves as the main far-right form of opposition.

Description
The result of an AH conversation I had recently: the parties of a surviving First Spanish Republic... in its final, Centralist form.

It goes like this: The details of the Virginius Incident change so it happens in 1874, with Serrano and his Republican dictatorship on. He settles the issue with the British, but he adopts a much more hawkish attitude towards the US. An earlier Spanish-American war erupts, and this time, with much more equilibrated forces than in our '98, Spain wins. The morale boost legitimizes Serrano and makes Cánovas reconsider his plans for a Bourbon restoration. Eventually, the concentration government results in a constitutional convention that seals the fate of Spain as a Unitarian republic, and the Radicals and the Constitutionalists spend the subsequent decades trying to keep the Federalists down and out, for their victory would jeopardize the new order, which only, joined to the fact this Republic banned Marxist parties for decades, radicalized their cause and linked it to the worker's movement. The Carlists, meanwhile, lost steam as time went by, eventually fusing with other Traditionalist parties, just to evolve towards a quite particular form of Christian democracy that agglutinates the rural Conservatives and the interests of the regions and nationalities, devoid of representation. Meanwhile, the Moderates resist, first as the main Monarchist ticket, and later evolving towards a mix of National Populism with their traditional, extremely vertical conception of governance, thus establishing themselves as the main far-right form of opposition.