Speech in the field of Comillas. Madrid, October 20, 1935 | General Archives of the Administration.

Cartoons. Gutiérrez (21 January 1933). National Library of Spain.

Entrance to the field of Comillas | Pablo Iglesias Foundation.

Speech by Azaña in Lasesarre. | General Archives of Administration.

Azaña imprisoned in the Sánchez Barcaíztegui | Documentary Center of Historical Memory.

In the November 1933 elections, the right-wing coalition, CEDA, won. In April 1934, Azaña founded the Republican Left.

During the second republican biennium there will be two significant events in which Azaña will be involved. The entry of three CEDA ministers into the fourth Lerroux government (4 October 1934 to 3 April 1935) and the deactivation in practice of all the renovation measures that had been implemented during the first, led to the proclamation of the Catalan Republic, "within the framework of the Spanish Federal Republic", on 6 October 1934, and the Asturias Revolution.

Although he had gone to Barcelona to attend the funeral of his friend and co-religionist Jaume Carner, Azaña is accused of having participated in the proclamation of the Catalan republic. He will be detained on the ships Ciudad de Cádiz, Alcalá Galiano and Sánchez Barcáiztegui, anchored in the port of Barcelona. He will publish his version of the events in My Rebellion in Barcelona (1935).

After the discovery of a cache, he is also accused of providing weapons to the revolutionaries of Asturias, when in reality these weapons were intended for the Portuguese dissidents who conspired against the Carmona–Salazar dictatorship. Azaña had nothing to do with it. He will be acquitted of both accusations by the Constitutional Court.

In 1935, he revealed himself as the great figure of the Republican left in the campaign of "open field speeches". The major rallies in the fields of Mestalla (Valencia), Lasesarre (Baracaldo) and Comillas (Madrid) are at the base of the victory of the Popular Front in the elections of February 1936.

… I am a Democrat […]. And I am not only a Republican, because we could well have made a Republic less exposed to the uncertainties of the system, but I am a Democrat for Spain because I believe that it is the only procedure to get Spain out of the decubitus supine that it has been lying in for centuries.

I believe that democracy in Spain is the only procedure for lighting the living waters that are still buried deep in the Spanish people.

Greatness and misery of politics. Conference on the Site. Bilbao, April 21, 1934.