National Union ( es, Unión nacional) was a Spanish far right electoral coalition which contested the

1979 Spanish general election The 1979 Spanish general election was held on Thursday, 1 March 1979, to elect the 1st Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as all 208 seats in the Senate. This was the ...

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Blas Piñar Blas Piñar López (22 November 1918 – 28 January 2014) was a Spanish far right politician. Having connections to Catholic organizations, during the Francoist dictatorship he directed the Institute of Hispanic Culture (''Instituto de Cultura ...

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Fuerza Nueva New Force ( es, Fuerza Nueva, FN) was the name of a far-right political party in Spain founded by Blas Piñar, director of the Institute of Hispanic Culture and longtime ''procurador'' in the Cortes Españolas during the Francoist period. Orig ...

'' francoist party with the Carlists. The coalition gathered 378,964 votes (2.11%), which earned it one seat in

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, held by Piñar.

Elections results

Congress of Deputies / Senate

References

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Elections results

Congress of Deputies / Senate

See also

References