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Moderate Party Partido Moderado | |
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Leader | Fernando Fernández de Córdova (last) |
Founder | Francisco de Paula Martínez |
Founded | 1834 |
Dissolved | 1874 |
Merged into | Conservative Party |
Ideology | Liberalism Economic liberalism Constitutional monarchy Centralism |
Political position | Centre to centre-right |
The Moderate Party (Spanish: Partido Moderado) or Moderate Liberal Party (Spanish: Partido Liberal Moderado) was one of the two Spanish political parties that contended for power during the reign of Isabel II (reigned 1833–1868). Like the opposing Progressive Party (Spanish: Partido Progresista), it characterised itself as liberal and dynasticist; both parties supported Isabel against the claims of the Carlists.
The Moderates contained various factions. Some supported working with Progressives, but others sought closer ties with the Old Regime. However, the party's dominant ideology was adherence to the centrist juste milieu of the French Doctrinaires.[1][2]