The Christian National Union Party ( hu, Keresztény Nemzeti Egyesülés Pártja, KNEP) was a political party in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
during the early 1920s.
History
The KNEP was established by in October 1919 as the Christian National League, and was based on the pre-
war
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...
Christian Party.
[Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p. 511 ] It was renamed the Christian National Union Party shortly afterwards. In the
January 1920 parliamentary elections it won 82 seats, finishing second behind the National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party. The two parties formed a coalition government on 15 March.
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'', p. 876
Due to the presence of a number of strong personalities, including
Sándor Ernszt
Sándor Ernszt (21 April 1870 – 19 November 1938) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education in 1931. He also served as Minister of Welfare and Labour from 1930.
References
Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
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,
István Friedrich
István Friedrich (anglicised as Stephen Frederick; 1 July 1883 – 25 November 1951) was a Hungarian politician, footballer and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months between August and November in 1919. His ten ...
,
Károly Huszár
Károly Huszár de Sárvár (born as Károly Schorn, 1882–1941) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister and acting Head of State of Hungary from November 1919 to March 1920. His tenure coincided with a period of political i ...
and
Pál Teleki
Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék (1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941) was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1921 and from 1939 to 1941. He was also an expert in geography, a un ...
, the party quickly began to fragment, and by the spring of 1921 it had lost much of its strength.
[ It continued under Wolff's leadership, and became known as the Wolff Party.][ The 1922 elections saw the party reduced to just 10 seats. It did not contest any further elections,][Nohlen & Stöver, p. 907] and around 1930 it merged with the Christian National Economic Party
The Christian National Economic Party was a political party in Hungary during the 1920s.
History
The party was established in 1925 as the Christian Economic Party by János Zichy, with most members being former civil servants.Vincent E McHale (1 ...
to form the Christian Economic and Social Party
The Christian Economic and Social Party ( hu, Keresztény Gazdasági és Szociális Párt, KGSZP) was a political party in Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, ...
.[
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Ideology
The party aimed to promote the interest of Catholics, and had a reactionary, anti-semitic programme. It was pro-Habsburg and pro-German.[
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References
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