The National Republican Party ( pt, Partido Nacional Republicano, PNR), unofficially known as the Sidonist Party (''Partido Sidonista'') after its leader

Sidónio Pais Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais (; 1 May 1872 – 14 December 1918) was a Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat, who served as the fourth president of the First Portuguese Republic in 1918. One of the most divis ...

, was a political party in

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History

The party was established in April 1918 in order to contest the

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later that month. Pais was the only candidate for president, and was elected unopposed, whilst the PNR won 108 of the 155 seats in the House of Representatives and 32 of the 73 Senate seats. However, the elections were boycotted by the

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, the

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and the Republican Union, which had won all but 16 of the seats in the 1915 elections.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', pp1557–1558 After Pais was assassinated later in December 1918, the party went into decline, and merged with the Republican Liberal Party and the

Reconstitution Party The Republican Party of National Reconstitution ( pt, Partido Republicano da Reconstituição Nacional, PRRN), commonly known as the Reconstitution Party, was a political party in Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, R ...

to form the Nationalist Republican Party in 1923.

References

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