National Union (Portugal)
| National Union União Nacional |
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| President | Marcelo Caetano (Last) |
| Founder | António de Oliveira Salazar |
| Founded | 30 July 1930 |
| Dissolved | 1974 |
| Merged into | changed name to People's National Action |
| Youth wing | Mocidade Portuguesa |
| Paramilitary wing | Legião Portuguesa |
| Ideology | Nationalism Corporatism Fascism (until 1945) |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue and white |
The National Union (Portuguese: União Nacional; Portuguese pronunciation: [uniˈɐ̃w̃ nɐsiuˈnaɫ]) was the only legal political party in Portugal for most[1] of the period of the Estado Novo, a right-wing dictatorship dominated by António de Oliveira Salazar.
The organization was founded in 1930 during the National Dictatorship period of 1928-33. Officially it was not a political party, but an "organisation of unity of all the Portuguese". The party won all seats in elections to the Portuguese National Assembly from 1934 to 1973.[2] In 1970 – two years after Salazar had been replaced as leader and prime minister by Marcello Caetano – the name of the party was altered to Acção Nacional Popular (People's National Action), and subsequent to Salazar's retirement faced formal competition in the 1969 election, nevertheless winning all constituencies in a landslide.[3]
The party had no real philosophy apart from support for the regime. As a result, it melted away after the Portuguese Revolution of 1974.
See also[edit]
- Mocidade Portuguesa, the Estado Novo's youth organization
- Portuguese Legion, the Estado Novo's paramilitary organization
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ The opposition Movement of Democratic Unity was legal in 1945-48.
- ^ Opposition were allowed supervised participation after 1945 but retired prematurely in the 1945 and 1973 elections.
- ^ "Portugal, 1969". PORTUGAL - Assembly of the Republic - Historical Archive Of Parliamentary Election Results. Inter-Parliamentary Union (www.ipu.org). Retrieved 8 October 2012.
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