 After the fall of the Azana government in September 1933, Lerroux was asked to form a government excluding the Socialist Party and including the centre-left and centre-right republican parties.The government proved unable to command sufficient confidence in the Cortes, with the result that fresh elections were held in which the PRR emerged the strongest single group in parliament with 102 deputies.Lerroux again formed a government, this time of the various conservative-liberal centre-right parties, but the composition of the congress was such that he could not govern without either the republican left, few in number and fragmented, or the powerful bloc of the religious right, the CEDA.