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History

The party was established in 1919 by a merger of the

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and the Republican Union.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1554 The new party emerged as the largest in the 1921 elections, winning 79 of the 163 seats in the House of Representatives and 32 of the 71 seats in the Senate. However, it was beaten by the

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in the 1922 elections. In 1923 the party merged with the

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and the

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to form the Nationalist Republican Party.

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