National Assembly (Spain)

The National Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Nacional) sometimes also referred to in Spanish as Asamblea Nacional Consultiva ("National Consultative Assembly") was a corporative chamber in Spain created by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, charged with the task of drafting a new constitution.

[5] The direct or indirect appointment by the government of the members of the National Assembly came to replace people's election.

The unimplemented Constitutional draft [es] elaborated by the National Assembly had an anti-liberal and authoritarian character.

[6] Made public in July 1929, it met the outright rejection from the Liberal, Monarchist and Republican forces in the opposition.

[7] It even got to the point of raising criticism from within the National Assembly,[8] and not even the dictator found satisfactory several features and details of the draft.