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  1. Article on how the Spanish monarchy is hard-baked into the system and how calls for a referendum on Spain becoming a republic are doomed to fail. @POLITICOEurope/1290911919432331265
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      Spain's 1978 constitution came with the monarchy already embedded in it. At no point were the Spanish people asked if they wanted to restore the republic overthrown in 1936; Franco's heirs knew that a republic was the preferred choice but they couldn't countenance that option.
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