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7-545: The National Monarchist Union (Spanish: Unión Monárquica Nacional ; UMN) was a Spanish political party, founded in April 1930 as successor to the Patriotic Union , the official party promoted by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera . Its leadership comprised several ministers of the regime as well as the son of the dictator . Featuring a Neo-Conservative matrix, the party included nonetheless an active group of representatives of
14-510: A guesswork, though some scholars base their calculations on circulation of the UP daily La Nación , at its peak printed in 50,000 copies. Figures in the range of 1.3m–1.7m would suggest the membership rate of some 6–8% (compared to the entire population), figures in the range of 0.4–0.5m would point to some 2%. In comparison to other state parties, in the mid-1930s some 10% of the Italian population were on
21-455: The Alfonso XIII's Monarchist Socialist Party, yet they played a marginal role. Spanish Patriotic Union The Patriotic Union ( Spanish : Unión Patriótica , UP) was the political party created by Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera , conceived as a support to his regime and integrating political Catholicism , technocrats , and the business-owning classes. The party's power
28-589: The dictator) and the Count of Guadalhorce, who would become the party leader, as it had been the wish of the deceased dictator. Its membership fed from public officers, politicians of the dictatorship, businessmen and engineers. There were other minor proposals in the spectrum of the monarchist far right similar to the UMN in 1930: the Independent Monarchist Youth, Monarchist Action, Association of Citizen Reaction of
35-641: The figure as 1,696,304. Most historians consider these figures fairly meaningless and note that they probably reflect bureaucratic ingenuity rather than the scale of genuine recruitment. However, some scholars settle for official figures, e.g. in the province of Almería the UP membership is estimated at 30,000 and in mid-size Valencian towns like Gandia , Torrent or Utiel at 500–1,000 members. An official yet not public note from Primo de Rivera, dated 1929, estimated membership at 600–700,000. Many historians tend to settle for even smaller figures, ranging from 400,000 to 500,000. These estimates are pretty much
42-477: The radical right and vouched for the installation of an Authoritarian monarchy. Some of the leading figures included José Calvo Sotelo , Ramiro de Maeztu , José de Yanguas Messía , Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta , Galo Ponte y Escartín, the marqués de Quintanar, Manuel Delgado Barreto (editor of La Nación ), José Gavilán (the former chairman of the Patriotic Union), José Antonio Primo de Rivera (the son of
49-540: Was dependent upon the power of its founder and leader, not any popular mandate. Following the dismissal of Miguel Primo de Rivera in January 1930 by King Alfonso XIII , the party was succeeded by the National Monarchist Union . There is no reliable information on membership figures. The party review Unión Patriótica claimed in 1927 that there were 1,319,428 people on the rolls; in 1928 the same source reported
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