Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas

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Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas (Cadiz, 1860 - Madrid, 1933) was the Prime Minister of Spain from the resignation of Dámaso Berenguer y Fusté on to the deposition of King Alfonso XIII and the proclamation of the Spanish Second Republic on April 14, 1931.

In Aznar's government, there were disagreements between absolutist and constitutional monarchists. The champion of the latter was conde de Romanones Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres, who was in prison. In between these factions was Minister of the Interior José María de Hoyos y Vinent de la Torre O’Neill.

The constitutionalists tried to make a deal with the Republicans. After failing to reach an accommodation with them, and after the Republicans won the municipal elections, the constitutionalists recommended that the King vacate the country.