Unity Party (Hungary)

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The Unity Party (Hungarian: Egységes Párt), officially the Catholic-Protestant Farmers, Smallholders, and Civic Party or Christian Farmers, Smallholders and Civic Party (Hungarian: Keresztény-Keresztyén Földmíves-, Kisgazda- és Polgári Párt), and informally the Government Party (Hungarian: Kormánypárt) was the ruling party of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1922 to 1944. The informal name was given due to it being the party of the government throughout the whole history of the Horthy regime. It was founded in early 1922, and in the same year they won an electoral landslide in the parliamentary election. Initially, the party was conservative and agrarian but in the early 1930s its fascist faction grew to become the largest, and shortly after they established a militia. The main leader of the fascist faction was Gyula Gömbös, who served as the prime minister from 1932 to 1936. When he came to power, the party was renamed to National Unity Party (Hungarian: Nemzeti Egység Pártja). Gömbös declared...

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