The Spanish National Union (

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: ''Unión Nacional Española'', UNE) was a

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and traditionalist political party in

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History

The UNE was born in 1975 as a "political association". Among its leaders there were members and exmembers of the Carlist movement that recognized

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as prince and successor to

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, and as the future

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. Among them Antonio María de Oriol, Juan María de Araluce Villar, José Luis Zamanillo and

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. Its president was the former

minister

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and one of its vicepresidents the diplomat José María Velo de Antelo. In November 1977, following a tumultuous assembly, José María Velo de Antelo and José Luis Zamanillo led a split because of the permanence of UNE in People's Alliance (AP), to which the party belonged since its establishment in 1976. The UNE, led by

and Miguel Fagoaga, as secretary general, left AP in November 1978 for its support of the

Spanish Constitution of 1978 The Spanish Constitution (Spanish, Asturleonese, and gl, Constitución Española; eu, Espainiako Konstituzioa; ca, Constitució Espanyola; oc, Constitucion espanhòla) is the democratic law that is supreme in the Kingdom of Spain. It was e ...

.Penella, Manuel (2005). Los orígenes y la evolución del Partido Popular: 1973-1982. Caja Duero. p. 1322. In 1979 UNE and Spanish Democratic Action (ADE) formed a new coalition, the Spanish Democratic Right (DDE). UNE dissolved shortly after the creation of the new coalition.

References

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