The Republican Union ( es, Unión Republicana) was a pro- statehood

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, that also contemplated total autonomy in the case that U.S. statehood was denied.Bolivar Pagan. ''Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898-1956).'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Litografía Real Hermanos, Inc. 1959. Tomo II. p. 15.

Founding

The Republican Union was founded in 1932 from the merging of the

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(Pure Republican Party) and the conservative wing of the Alianza. Together with the

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, it was part of an

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known as Coalición.

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