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| Christmas Revolution 1927 Nuxican coup d'etat | |||||||
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 Members of the National Army detain suspected syndicalists. | |||||||
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 PM Bernat Bargalló Pres. Macedoni Mauri |
Gen. Juan Sebastián García Gen. Cristòfor Fabregas Gen. Justí Jordana Adm. Artur Fità Adm. Màrius Forniele Gen. Xande Magalhães | ||||||
The Christmas Revolution (Floren: Revolució de Nadal), also known by historians, political experts, and many members of the public as the 1927 Nuxican coup d'etat, was a series of coordinated military and civilian operations in Nuxica from the 24th of December, 1927 to the 25th of December, 1927 that led to the overthrow of the civilian government of President Macedoni Mauri i Pallejà and Prime Minister Bernat Bargalló i Massafré by members of both the National Armed Forces and the National Guard, with the support of the clergy, powerful corporations, and members of the Nuxican aristocracy. The legislature and judiciary of the nation was also seized by the military, with both the Supreme Juror and the Speaker forced to declare each branch suspended indefinitely. The coup put an end to the minority government of the National Worker's Party (PNT), as well as negotiations between the PNT and the syndicalist National Confederation of Labor.
The coup came following Summer of Lead, in which leftist groups battled with right-wing groups for political supremacy within the country. A bare victory for the social democrat National Worker's Party in the parliamentary elections forced the government to enter into a coalition with the Democratic Union Party, a center-left political party. However, tensions between the two organizations, combined with the 1927 Nuxican recession caused the coalition to collapse. Fearing a vote of no confidence, Prime Minister Bargalló entered into negotiations with the syndicalist National Confederation of Labor.
Fearing a "syndical-communist takeover of the nation," business and political elites within the Chamber of Commerce and Trade -- a powerful lobbying group in the country -- began coordinating with conservative, proto-Functionalist, and Solarian Catholic members of the armed forces to overthrow the government in favor of a corporo-nationalist military junta.
The coup was successful, installing General Juan Sebastián García i Masvidal as the leader of the junta. Proclaiming a New Order within the country, Garcia began a campaign of terror, purges, forced disappearances, and acts of violence against opposition groups that would last until the beginning of Nuxican involvement in the Great War. The regime itself would withstand the conflict, only ceding power to civilian authorities following the Dahlia Revolution in 1989.