The government led by the Radical Republican Party went through a series of crises in 1935. President Alcalá-Zamora, who had always been hostile to the government, decided to call for new elections, refusing once again to invite CEDA, the party with most seats in the parliament, to form a government. The Popular Front won the 1936 general election with a narrow victory. The revolutionary left wing masses took to the streets, and released prisoners. In the thirty-six hours following the election, sixteen people were killed (mostly by police officers attempting to maintain order or intervene in violent clashes) and thirty-nine were seriously injured, while fifty churches and seventy conservative political centres were attacked or set ablaze. Manuel Azaña Díaz was called upon to form a government before the electoral process had come to an end; he would shortly replace Zamora as president, taking advantage of a constitutional loophole. The right abandoned the parliamentary option and began to conspire to overthrow the republic, rather than taking control of it.