ABSTRACT
The death of Francisco Franco on 20 November 1975 led to the beginning of the transition process in Spain. The British Labour Party, which had supported the anti-Francoist cause throughout the 1960s – mostly through the relationship it maintained with the exiled Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) – increased its commitment to the Spanish cause in the 1970s. The Spanish Francoist regime kept a close eye on the various general amnesties and pardons the French government granted for the events that took place during the Algerian War, which, thanks to the Evian Accord of 18 March 1962, did not end in vain. With the death of Franco and with the transition process already in motion when Juan Carlos I was sworn in as King, new self-perpetuating regime was installed to apply the policies developed by the first Francoist government after the death of Franco, led by Carlos Arias Navarro, and with Interior Minister Manuel Fraga as Vice-President of the government.
