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View submission: Are there examples of oligarchic governments being removed peacefully?
I have to disagree with your point about Spain. I agree with defining Francoist Spain as an oligarchy, but I disagree with the idea that it stopped being one with the Transición. While the oligarchy gave up some political powers, there was no change in the economic structure of the country whatsoever, and very little change in the judiciary structure, so francoist economic elites were able to keep most of their privileges and power after the new parliamentary system was stablished. If anything, the Transición was a change from an absolutist oligarchy to a parliamentary one, where the economic elites that won the civil war, and the new ones born out of the 60s economic boom, gave up a bit of political power so they could keep all of their economic power, including capital, land and media ownership. Even today the Church remains the biggest land owner in the country, the families that controlled capital still do, most companies in IBEX 35 are mergers of oligarchich companies, including media and infrastructure ones. One can argue that if something diluted the power of the francoist oligarchy was the massive influx of foreign capital and supranational regulations coming into place with the inclusion of Spain into the EEC and later EU, and that is to be argued. To this day, the list of wealthiest individuals and companies in the country is dominated, with some exceptions (like inditex), by the heirs of Francoist oligarchs and the structures they created under the dictatorship, and they still benefict from their economic and judiciary privileges.
There's nothing here!