Christian National Union (Latvia)
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The Christian National Union was a political party in Latvia in the inter-war period.
History
The party was established in 1920,[1] and won three seats in the 1920 Constituent Assembly elections.[2] It went onto win four seats in the 1922 elections, but was reduced to two seats in the 1925 elections. It won four seats again in the 1928 elections, but only three in 1931.
Ideology
The party advocated Lutheranism as the basis for governance and also supported prohibition.[1] It usually sat in the Saeima alongside the National Union, the Party for Peace and Order and some Latgalian parties, in a grouping known as the "National Bloc".[3]
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