The Agrarian Party of Greece ( el, Αγροτικό Κόμμα Ελλάδος) was a
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from 1923 to 1946.
History
The party was established in March 1923 at he second Panhellenic Agrarian Congress.
[Spyridon G. Ploumidis (2012]
"Agrarian Politics in Interwar Greece: The Stillborn ‘Peasant’ Parties (1923-1936)"
''Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series Historica'', volume 9, pp57–87 In the
December 1923 elections it won three seats.
Dieter Nohlen
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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p857 In the
1926 elections it won four seats.
The party did not contest the
1928 elections,
[Nohlen & Stöver, p839] but returned in 1936, winning a single seat in the
elections that year. The party did not contest any further elections.
On 27 September 1941, the Agricultural Party of Greece participated in the
National Liberation Front, the biggest resistance organization during the
Greek Resistance.
References
Defunct socialist parties in Greece
National Liberation Front (Greece)
1920s in Greece
1930s in Greece
1940s in Greek politics
Political parties established in 1923
1923 establishments in Greece
Political parties disestablished in 1946
1946 disestablishments in Greece
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