The electoral law adopted in 1907
during Antonio Maura's government
provided in its Article 29 that in districts with no candidates
declared the most destined to be elected,
the candidate proclamation would equal the election
and it would free the person from the obligation to submit to it.
The article was followed immediately
by a large number of paragraphs about proclamations by boards,
issuing credentials.
But the essential was the first measure.
An article directly connected to the then existing local bosses,
and we should read it combined with the Article 24 of the same law
that set up important restrictions for the nomination of candidates.
To be eligible as a member, it had to be nominated
by two members, six members from the same province
and the one-twentieth of voters.
Conditions held in the Article 29, contributed
to maintain those effective despotic structures
As demonstrated by the general elections in 1910,
around 30% of census didn't exercise its right to vote.
The increasing abstention and the implementation of this article
gives excessively high number of low citizen participation.
Since the law was approved and repealed with the arrival
of the Second Republic,
the phrase referred to the Article 29 is associated with imposing
the act of arbitrary conduct. This is the way it has to be by Article 29.