Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== Spain ====
[[File:01 eibar.jpg|thumb|Women exercising the right to vote during the [[Second Spanish Republic]], November 5, 1933]]

During the [[Miguel Primo de Rivera]] regime (1923–1930) only women who were considered heads of household were allowed to [[vote]] in local elections, but there were none at that time. Women's suffrage was officially adopted in 1931 despite the opposition of [[Margarita Nelken]] and [[Victoria Kent]], two female MPs (both members of the Republican Radical-Socialist Party), who argued that women in Spain at that moment lacked social and political education enough to vote responsibly because they would be unduly influenced by Catholic priests.<ref name="Colomer-2001" /> Most Spanish Republicans at the time held the same view.<ref name="Colomer-2001" /> The other female MP at the time, [[Clara Campoamor]] of the liberal Radical Party, was a strong advocate of women's suffrage and she was the one leading the Parliament's affirmative vote.  During the [[Francoist Spain|Franco]] regime in the "organic democracy" type of elections called "referendums" (Franco's regime was dictatorial) women over 21 were allowed to vote without distinction.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/01361697557806725311802/p0000001.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070514084006/http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/01361697557806725311802/p0000001.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 14, 2007 |title=Ley de Referéndum de 1945 |publisher=www.cervantesvirtual.com |date=September 2, 2015|access-date=September 29, 2015 }}</ref> From 1976, during the [[Spanish transition to democracy]] women fully exercised the right to vote and be elected to office.