Francoism was never a democratic system and, consequently, it never generated a set of laws that served to manage politics, social relations, the economy, etc., from a perspective assimilable to parliamentary democracies; It did not have, therefore, a constitution that was the backbone of the political system.
Its totalitarian origin, comparable to fascist dictatorships, remained latent throughout its period of validity. It is true, however, that the defeat of Italy and Germany in the Second World War and the subsequent attempts to approach a democratic Europe and the United States, forced the regime to a certain evolution in which it gradually got rid of fascist elements and approached to political forms that were intended to be comparable to Western democracies.
This evolution is manifested in the elaboration of the basic laws of the Francoist political system. Laws that, as a whole, intended to replace the role of the constitution in a democratic state. The following conceptual map exposes the content of those laws that structured the political, social and economic organization of the Francoist State. Its very dispersion and evolution reveal the undemocratic and dictatorial character of the regime.
