Al ganar las elecciones ERC cambia su posición relativo al desempleo

Although prior to the first democratic elections in June 1931 the ERC had described unemployment as ‘one of the most imposing problems which the Republic has been presented with’, afterwards, doubtless having attracted many votes from those out of work, the party and its supporters adopted a different stance: Serra i Moret, the USC head of the Comissió Pro-Obrers sense Treball, told journalists that ‘unemployment is not such a big problem’. The ERC also denied any responsibility for unemployment, portraying it as an unfortunate inheritance from the monarchy. In practical terms, the ERC offered little more than soup kitchens, food vouchers and allotment schemes, justifying its volte-face on the question of unemployment benefit in democratic discourse by declaring that a subsidy was ‘immoral’ and would produce ‘a new caste’ among the unemployed and within the working class.