In 1898, Spain lost its last colonial possessions in Cuba and the Philippines, a fact that not only created an important crisis of national confidence, but also gave an impulse to political Catalanism. The first modern political party in Catalonia was the Lliga Regionalista. Founded in 1901, it formed a coalition in 1907 with other Catalanist forces (from Carlism to Federalists), grouped in the so-called "Solidaritat Catalana", and won the elections with the regionalist programme that Enric Prat de la Riba had formulated in his manifesto "La nacionalitat catalana" (1906).