 As an end to the dictatorship came in sight, the party began to prepare for a return to constitutional normality.In 1926, it initiated the Republican Alliance, an umbrella organisation of various republicans hoping to push for a republican regime once the dictatorship ended.The Alliance excluded the Socialist Party; in 1928, the Radical-Republicans' left wing split to found the Radical-Socialist Republican Party since it was eager to maintain close links with the socialist movement.