National Union (Spain)

National Union
Unión Nacional
President Blas Piñar
Founded 1979 (1979)
Dissolved 1982 (1982)
Merger of Fuerza Nueva
FE de las JONS
Círculos Doctrinales José Antonio
Comunión Tradicionalista
Confederación Nacional de Excombatientes
Agrupación de Juventudes Tradicionalistas
Ideology Fascism
Francoism
National Catholicism
Spanish nationalism
Anticommunism
Slogan España en tus manos (Spain [is] in your hands)
Congreso de los Diputados (1979-1982)
1 / 350
Town councillors in Spain (1979-1983)
113 / 67,505

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National Union (Spanish: Unión nacional) was a Spanish far right electoral coalition which contested the 1979 Spanish general election. It linked Blas Piñar's Fuerza Nueva francoist party with the Carlists.

The coalition gathered 378,964 votes (2.11%), which earned it one seat in Madrid, held by Piñar.[2]

References

  1. 57 elected as UN candidates, 46 as Fuerza Nueva candidates and 10 as FE de las JONS candidates.
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