El alzamiento moderado-fuerista de Octubre de 1841. El caso de la villa de Bilbao

Abstract

The displacement of the conservative group from governance due to the revolutionary progresive movement that took place during the summer of 1840, generated deep uneasiness among the statutory leaders, who up to that moment had dominated the statutory institutions in the Basque provinces, as this meant the end of the policy, mainly statutory but also national, totally concordant with their interest and the ideological principles. In both cases, the role performed by the regent queen, M.ª Cristina, had been decissive, as she had become leader of these conservative tendencies, thus her abdication meaning the loss of the fundamental piece of the political interlocking. Therefore, as the statutories were the Basque version of the conservatism, they became one of the main supports of the conservative conspiracy projects. To this respect, the city of Bilbao played a first-rate role as its bourgeosie was an essential member of the provincial leadership group, furtherrmore with residence in there, and also because most of the distinguished from governance, which produced a total symbiosis of the postulates of the members of the same political family, this converting Bilbao into the capital, in the interior of the kingdom, of the reactionary movement of October 1841, that, in fact, was a clamorous failure.