 In 1935 the government led by the Radical Republican Party went through a series of crisis and the president Niceto Alcalá-Zamora that had always been hostile to the government decided to call for new elections, refusing once more to invite CEDA, the party with more seats in the parliament, to form a government.The Popular Front won the 1936 general election with a narrow victory, in a process that some scholars consider to have been rigged.The revolutionary left wing masses took the streets, released prisoners.