General Dámaso Berenguer resigned yesterday under increasing government problems.Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas has been asked to be Prime Minister.
The government after Rivera's departure last year never was able to do much. As prime minister, Berenguer repealed some of the harsher measures introduced by Primo de Rivera, earning his regime the nickname dictablanda ("dictatorship lite") or Parum Mentula.
He also faced a number of problems – increasing demands for the abolition of the monarchy; disorganisation among the country's political parties after seven years of repression, making the calling of prompt elections an impossible task and labour unrest.
Thursday, February 15, 2001
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