 Complete the following phrase:  A provisional government presided by Niceto Alcalá Zamora was installed as the Republic, popularly nicknamed as la niña bonita the pretty girl, was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, a democratic experiment at a time when democracies were beginning to descend into dictatorships elsewhere in the continent. A Constituent election was called for June 1931. The domit bloc emerging from the election, an alliance of liberals and socialists, brought Manuel Azaña who had undertaken a decisive reform as War minister in the provisional government by trying to democratize the Armed Forces to premiership, heading from the on a number of coalition cabinets. While the Republican government was able to easily quell the 