First government of Felipe González

The first government of Felipe González was formed on 3 December 1982, following the latter's election as Prime Minister of Spain by the Congress of Deputies on 1 December and his swearing-in on 2 December, as a result of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) emerging as the largest parliamentary force at the 1982 Spanish general election.[1] It succeeded the Calvo-Sotelo government and was the Government of Spain from 3 December 1982 to 26 July 1986, a total of 1,331 days, or 3 years, 7 months and 23 days.

1st government of Felipe González
Government of Spain
1982–1986
The government in December 1982.
Date formed	3 December 1982
Date dissolved	26 July 1986
People and organisations
Monarch	Juan Carlos I
Prime Minister	Felipe González
Deputy Prime Minister	Alfonso Guerra
No. of ministers	16[lower-alpha 1]
Total no. of members	21[lower-alpha 1]
Member party	PSOE
Status in legislature	Majority government 202 / 350
Opposition party	AP–PDP (1982–1983)   AP–PDP–UL (1983–1984)   AP–PDP–PL (1984–1986)
Opposition leader	Manuel Fraga
History
Election(s)	1982 general election
Outgoing election	1986 general election
Legislature term(s)	2nd Cortes Generales
Budget(s)	1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
Predecessor	Calvo-Sotelo
Successor	González II

González's first cabinet marked several firsts in Spanish history: it was the first purely left-of-centre government in Spain under the monarchy in Spain, as well as the first one to be set up in peacetime period.[2][3] It comprised members of the PSOE and its sister party, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), as well as one member from the Democratic Action Party (PAD)—which had contested the 1982 election in alliance with the PSOE and would merge into it in January 1983[4]—and one independent.[5][6][7] It was automatically dismissed on 23 June 1986 as a consequence of the 1986 general election, but remained in acting capacity until the next government was sworn in.[8][9][10]