 He and the brothers were taken and held without trial and summarily shot in the middle of the night in the cemetery.In the 1936 elections, a new coalition of socialists (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE), liberals (Republican Left and the Republican Union Party), Communists, and various regional nationalist groups won the extremely tight election.The results gave 34 percent of the popular vote to the Popular Front and 33 percent to the incumbent government of the CEDA.