The JDE was officially launched on July 29, 1974 in Paris by Santiago Carrillo and Rafael Calvo Serer.

Subsequently the Party of Labour of Spain (PTE), the Carlist Party led by Carlos Hugo de Borbón Parma, the Popular Socialist Party (PSP) led by Enrique Tierno Galván and Raul Morodo, the Socialist Alliance of Andalusia, the union Comisiones Obreras, the Association Justicia Democrática and a number of independent figures such as José Vidal Beneyto and aristocrat José Luis de Vilallonga joined the Junta.

[1] The twelve points of the program of the Democratic Junta of Spain, written by Antonio García-Trevijano, were the following: 1.

The formation of an interim government to replace the current one, to return to the Spanish man and women, aged eighteen, their full citizenship through the legal recognition of all freedoms, democratic rights and duties.

Freedom of the press, radio, opinion and objective information of state media, especially television.

The recognition under the Spanish unit of the state, of the political personality of the Catalan, Basque and Galician peoples.