The United Christian Party ( hu, Egyesült Kereszténypárt, EKP) was a right-wing 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 ...
that operated from the late 1930s until dissolving in 1944.
History
The party was formed in 1937 by a merger of 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 in the inter-war period.
History
The party was established around 1930 by a merger of the Christian National Econo ...
(KGSZP), the
Christian Opposition
The Christian Opposition ( hu, Keresztény Ellenzék, KE) was a political party in Hungary during the inter-war period.
History
The party first contested national elections in 1922, winning two seats in the parliamentary elections that year. Alth ...
and the
National Legitimist Party
The National Legitimist (People's) Party ( hu, Nemzeti Legitimista Néppárt, NLN) was a political party in Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary during the 1930s.
History
The party first contested national elections in 1935, winning a single ...
(NLN), although members of the Christian Opposition broke away later in the same year to re-establish their party.
[ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p911 ] Some other members left to establish the far-right
Christian National Socialist Front
The Christian National Socialist Front ( hu, Keresztény Nemzeti Szocialista Front, KNSZF) was a far-right political party in Hungary during the late 1930s.
History
The party was formed in 1937 as a breakaway from the new United Christian Party ...
(KNSZF).
[
The 1939 elections saw the new party win only four seats, eleven fewer than the KGSZP and NLN had won in ]1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
. It finished behind the Christian National Socialist Front in terms of vote share, although the KNSZF won only three seats. Neither party contested another election.[Nohlen & Stöver, p908]
After World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, the EKP was succeeded by the Christian Democratic People's Party.[Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p511 ]
Further reading
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References
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Defunct political parties in Hungary
Political parties established in 1937
Political parties disestablished in 1944
Catholic political parties
Christian political parties in Hungary
Right-wing parties in Europe