The Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People (In Czech, Republikánská strana zemědělského a malorolnického lidu - RSZML) was an agrarian party of Czechoslovakia, seen as representing big business and agriculture.
Usually called in daily political life Agrarians (agrárníci).
In the period up to 1932 it was the biggest political party in the country. Led by Antonín Švehla and Milan Hodža, the party influenced Czechoslovak politics between World War I and World War II. Participate in the Pětka coalition governments. Member of the International Agrarian Bureau.
In 1925 it introduced an agrarian tariff which was seen as protecting the producers interest, motivated by the country's agrarian crisis. It is argued that it helped the Hungarians more than it did the Slovaks. Prime Minister Udrzal was a member of the party, but he lost its support, which meant that he failed to hold his coalition together. Internal struggles within the party grew and the coalition government failed in July 1932.
Other important where: Josef Žďářský (Party President 1905-1909), Jan Černý (Primer Minister 1920-1921, 1926), Antonín Švehla (Party President 1909-1933 and Prime Minister 1922-1926, 1926-1929), František Udržal ((Primer Minister 1929-1932), Jan Malypetr (Primer Minister 1932-1935) and Milan Hodža (Primer Minister 1935-1938) and Rudolf Beran (Party President 1935-1938 and Prime Minister 1938-1939).