With the new Second Spanish Republic only two months old, the government needed to find ways to cut credit on infrastructure as it was more focused on securing control of the country than ensuring people had work.

All the local government officials immediately resigned and Antón Alonso Ríos, who in Buenos Aires had directed Casares Quiroga's Autonomous Galician Republican Organization, was chosen as president.

[1] At the same time, labour unions in Ourense called for a general strike and protesters in Sanabria raised the Galician flag over their city hall.

[4] A number of leftist organizations and champions of Galician national sovereignty still celebrate 27 June despite how short the republic lived.

The news had an impact on the Galician, Spanish and international press, and was reviewed by John dos Passos for the daily newspaper Chicago Tribune.