 Most significantly, the schism of April 1934 had the party's second figure, the former interior minister and prime minister Diego Martínez Barrios, led a faction out of the party, taking with him twenty of the PRR's hundred deputies.They would soon merge with the right wing of the old Radical-Socialist Party to form the Republican Union.The walkouts left the remainder of the PRR even more inclined to concession with the religious right.