The Christian National Union was a political party in

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

in the inter-war period.

History

The party was established in 1920,Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p449 and won three seats in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly elections.

Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...

& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1137 It went on to win four seats in the 1st Saeima after the 1922 elections, but was reduced to two seats in the

2nd Saeima 2nd Saeima was the parliament of Latvia from November 3, 1925, until November 5, 1928. The Social Democrat Pauls Kalniņš continued to hold the post of Speaker of the Saeima to which he was first elected during the 1st Saeima. 2nd Saeima gav ...

after the 1925 elections. It won four seats again in the 1928 elections, but only three in the

4th Saeima 4th Saeima was the parliament of Latvia from 3 November 1931 until the 15 May 1934 Latvian coup d'état. It was the last democratically elected Saeima until the restoration of Latvia’s independence in 1991 and the 5th Saeima elections in 1993. ...

elections of 1931.

Ideology

The party advocated

Lutheranism Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

as the basis for governance and also supported

prohibition Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic ...

. It usually sat in the

Saeima The Saeima () is the parliament of the Latvia, Republic of Latvia. It is a unicameral parliament consisting of 100 members who are elected by proportional representation, with seats allocated to political parties which gain at least 5% of the po ...

alongside the National Union, the

Party for Peace and Order The Party for Peace and Order was a conservative political party in Latvia during the inter-war period. History The party was established in 1925,Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p456 and won two seats i ...

and some Latgalian parties, in a grouping known as the "National Bloc".McHale, p457

References

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