Christian National Party (Hungary)
Christian National Party Keresztény Nemzeti Párt | |
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| Leader | István Friedrich |
| Chairman | Pál Teleki |
| Founded | 30 August 1919 |
| Dissolved | 16 January 1922 |
| Merged into | KNEP (majority) |
| Succeeded by | Andrássy-Friedrich Party |
| Newspaper | Nemzeti Újság |
| Ideology | National conservatism Christian conservativism Legitimism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
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The Christian National Party (Hungarian: Keresztény Nemzeti Párt, KNP) was a short-lived political party in Hungary during the early 1920s.
History
Following their successful coup against the
As the Catholic Church in Hungary urged the merger of Christian parties on a permanent basis, majority of KNP merged with the majority of the Christian Social and Economic Party (KSZGP) to form the Christian National Union Party (KNEP) on 25 October 1919. Friedrich was elected leader of the new party. The remaining party contested national elections in 1920, winning two seats in the parliamentary elections that year.[3] Due to the presence of a number of strong personalities, however, KNEP quickly began to fragment. On 12 April 1920, Friedrich and his other six MPs left the party and re-joined KNP. He was elected chairman of the party after that. Basically, the KNP remained a parliamentary group with the lack of mass support.[2] In the October 1921 by-election, their only candidate received 0.56 percent of the vote. After the Hungarian parliament declared the dethronement of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, Gyula Andrássy the Younger and ten other aristocrats left the KNEP to join KNP on 14 January 1922. Two days later the party was renamed to Christian National Agricultural Workers' and Civic Party (KNFPP), more commonly known as the Andrássy-Friedrich Party.[2]
In the 1922 elections, the remaining part of the party lost both seats, receiving just 0.2% of the national vote.[3]
Election results
| Election year | National Assembly | Government | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
| 1920 | 6,361 | 0.5% | 2 / 219
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New | In opposition |
| 1922 | 3,547 | 0.2% | 0 / 245
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Extra-parliamentary |
References
- ISBN 978-963-693-276-3.
- ^ a b c Vida 2011, p. 188.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
