At the time, the Spanish left were anxious as Adolf Hitler had been appointed Chancellor of Germany a month earlier, and CEDA was considered close to fascism, therefore, they feared that it was the first step of the party to take power in Spain.

[1] In the afternoon of 6 October 1934, Lluís Companys as the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia proclaimed the creation of a Catalan State within the "Spanish Federal Republic".

Their sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Spanish President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, in spite of the protests of both the CEDA and the Republican Liberal Democrat Party of Melquiades Álvarez, who demanded a strong hand.

[6] The government of Lerroux unleashed "a harsh repressive wave with the closure of political and trade union centers, the suppression of newspapers, the removal of municipalities and thousands of detainees, without having had a direct action on the facts", which showed "a punitive will often arbitrary and with vengeance components of class or ideological".

In April 1935, when the state of war was lifted, Portela was replaced by the radical Joan Pich i Pon, and some of the powers of the Generalitat were returned to him, but not those of Public Order.