Primo's investigation was soon over, and he informed Vittorio Emanuele II of the final choice for king. Yes, Carlos has won his competition with Amadeo and is about to become the new King of Spain. The reason Carlo was able to win this competition was actually more due to his support for reform and Garibaldi's praise of him. When Juan Primo Putras was compiling the list of candidates for the Spanish throne, he remarked with a sense of irony: "To find a king in Spain who supports democracy is like looking for an atheist in heaven." Although a constitutional system was nominally established during Isabella's reign, Queen Isabella still wielded considerable power, and the kingdom's government was quite ignorant and feudal. Primo was tired of this strong authoritarianism, and when searchi

