The local authorities finally accepted the new system, but in the following months confrontations (sometimes violent) continued, resulting among others in the assassination of republican mayor Moreno y Picó.

[1] This way, the Canton of Malaga was proclaimed on July 21-22, 1873 after local militias under the command of Eduardo Carvajal took to the streets and liberated previously incarcerated cantonalists.

[1][2] On August 8, after "pacifying" Cádiz and its province, General Manuel Pavía went to Córdoba to fall from there on the cantons of Granada and Málaga.

Trying to get out of the situation in which he found himself, President Salmerón authorized a small garrison commanded by a government delegate, not from Pavía, to go to Malaga.

While he maintained his new challenge to the government, he terminated the resistance of Écija where, according to Pavía himself, he "made exemplary punishments" that would serve as an example to all the cantonalists of Andalusia who did not surrender to his authority.