FET y de las JONS

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The Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (lit. 'Traditionalist Spanish Phalanx of the Councils of the National Syndicalist Offensive'), abbreviated FET y de las JONS and commonly known as the Falange, was the sole legal political party of Francoist Spain from its creation in 1937 until its dissolution in 1977. The party was established by Spanish caudillo Francisco Franco on 19 April 1937 through the Unification Decree, which forcibly and officially merged the Falange Española de las JONS (FE de las JONS) with the Traditionalist Communion. The new party formally retained 26 of the 27 points of the original Falangist platform, along with its symbols (the blue shirt, the yoke and arrows, and the anthem Cara al Sol), but in practice functioned as a broad nationalist coalition under Franco's personal authority rather than as an ideologically coherent movement. The party was founded shortly after Fascist Italy's official Roberto Farinacci met with...

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