Gamacists

{{Infobox political party

| name = Gamacists

| native_name = Gamacistas

| leader = Germán Gamazo
Antonio Maura

| country = Spain

| split = Liberal Party

| merged = Conservative Party

| colorcode = {{party color|Gamacists}}

| foundation = {{Start date|1881}}

| dissolved = {{End date|1902}}

| ideology = Liberalism
Conservative liberalism
Monarchism

| position = Centre

| state = Spain

}}

The Gamacists ({{langx|es|Gamacistas}}) were a political faction within the Liberal Party led by Germán Gamazo. They split from the party in October 1898 following the Ribot scandal—a controversy involving Cádiz governor and Gamazo's ally Pascual Ribot—which Gamazo attributed to an internal conspiration within the Liberal party to get rid of him as Development minister.{{sfn|Hidalgo Marín|1995|p=109}}{{cite web |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/10144/german-gamazo-calvo |title=Germán Gamazo Calvo |language=es |publisher=Royal Academy of History |access-date=3 May 2023}}{{cite news |last=Cañas Carrillo |first=Jesús Antonio |date=24 February 2017 |url=https://www.diariodecadiz.es/con-la-venia/origen-leyenda-Pais_0_1112289411.html |title=El origen de la leyenda en El País |language=es |newspaper=Diario de Cádiz |location=Cádiz |access-date=3 May 2023}}{{cite news |date=1 January 1899 |url=https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=e2a62fd4-d5fb-4283-a504-7a19e717a7d8&page=450 |title=Mes de octubre. Día 31. La carta de los gamacistas |language=es |website=National Library of Spain |publisher=El Año Político |access-date=3 May 2023}} Among its members were future prime minister and Conservative leader Antonio Maura, son-in-law of Gamazo, as well as other notorious liberal MPs.{{cite news |date=14 June 1889 |url=https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=da2e74ba-ca12-47d0-b3a7-58aa6f7821fb |title=Los disidentes de la mayoría |language=es |website=National Library of Spain |publisher=La Época |access-date=16 September 2022}}{{cite news |date=14 June 1889 |url=https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=6721745e-7770-4a43-a1b7-3b1b01a2ad39&page=2 |title=Fracción del Sr. Gamazo |language=es |website=National Library of Spain |publisher=La República |access-date=16 September 2022}}{{cite news |date=21 March 1890 |url=https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=b6fc78fc-21b7-493e-acc3-bff386fdb4d4 |title=Banquete de diputados gamacistas |language=es |website=National Library of Spain |publisher=El Día |access-date=16 September 2022}}

After Gamazo's death in 1901, it eventually merged into the Liberal Conservative Party of Francisco Silvela in 1902.{{cite web |url=https://www.historiaelectoral.com/e1800l.html |title=Liberales (y Progresistas) (1868 - 1931) |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=13 September 2022}}