 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1973 akaparadzana nePCE ndokutanga Spanish Communist Workers Party PCOE. Chinhu chakakurudzira kupatsanuka kwacho kwaiva kushora kwePCE kupindira kweSoviet muCzechoslovakia muna 1968. Líster akadzokera kuSpain muna 1977, mushure mekufa kwaFrancisco Franco, uye akabatanazve nePCE panguva yekuchinja kweSpain kuenda kudemokrasi. Vakafa muna 1994 muMadrid. 