The National Agrarian Party (Romanian:Partidul Naţional Agrar) was a right-wing agrarian political party active in Romania during the early 1930s.
The party emerged in 1932 following a split in the People's Party and in response to the conversion of its founder the poet Octavian Goga to anti-Semitism.[1] Goga had managed to convince much of the membership of General Alexandru Averescu's party to follow him into the new group.[2]
Under the Goga's leadership the National Agrarian Party espoused an authoritarian nationalist ideology.[3] It adopted "Christ! King! Fatherland!" as its slogan, a rallying cry already associated with Goga before the party's formation.[4]
In July 1935 the group merged with A. C. Cuza's National-Christian Defense League to form the National Christian Party, a hard-line Anti-Semitic group that sought to challenge the Iron Guard whilst remaining close to more mainstream conservative forces.[5] Pressure for this move had come from the office of Alfred Rosenberg in Nazi Germany, where a stronger anti-Semitic party in Romania was seen as desirable.[6]
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