Within a year of his appointment as Spain’s then-youngest prime minister, in July 1976 when he was 43, Mr Suárez had passed a law establishing a two-chamber Cortes and universal suffrage; had legalised the left-wing parties, including, most vitally, the communists; had declared an amnesty for political prisoners, legalised trade unions and dismantled most of Franco’s four-decade-old political machinery; had got his reforms heartily approved by public referendum, as well as by parliament; had called free elections, formed the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) to fight them, won, and was on his way to drafting a new constitution. He had only one agenda, democracy. economist/news/obituary/21599738-adolfo-su-rez-first-prime-minister-democratic-spain-died-march-23rd-aged-81-spains
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