National Renaissance Front Frontul Renașterii Naționale | |
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| Leaders | Armand Călinescu Gheorghe Argeșanu Constantin Argetoianu |
| Founder | Carol II |
| Founded | 16 December 1938 |
| Dissolved | 6 September 1940 |
| Preceded by | People's Party |
| Headquarters | Bucharest, Romania |
| Ideology | Authoritarian conservatism[1] Corporate statism[2] |
| Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
| Colours | Navy blue White |
| Anthem | "Unity is written on our flag" |
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The National Renaissance Front (Romanian: Frontul Renașterii Naționale, FRN; also translated as Front of National Regeneration, Front of National Rebirth,[3] Front of National Resurrection, or Front of National Renaissance) was a Romanian political party created by King Carol II in 1938 as the single monopoly party of government following his decision to ban all other political parties and suspend the 1923 Constitution, and the passing of the 1938 Constitution of Romania. It was the party of Prime Ministers Armand Călinescu, Gheorghe Argeșanu, Constantin Argetoianu, Gheorghe Tătărescu, and Ion Gigurtu, whose regimes were associated with corporatism and antisemitism. Largely reflecting Carol's own political choices, the FRN was the last of several attempts to counter the popularity of the fascist and antisemitic Iron Guard. In mid-1940, Carol reorganized the FRN into the more radical Party of the Nation (Partidul Națiunii or Partidul Națiunei, PN), designed as a "totalitarian unity party".[3] The party's anthem was "Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire".[4] It effectively ceased to function the following year when the Parliament of Romania was dissolved.
- ^ Cyprian Blamires. World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. p. 21.
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Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo, eds. (7 September 2011). International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications (published 2011). ISBN 9781483305394. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
... fascist Italy ... developed a state structure known as the corporate state with the ruling party acting as a mediator between 'corporations' making up the body of the nation. Similar designs were quite popular elsewhere in the 1930s. The most prominent examples were Estado Novo in Portugal (1932-1968) and Brazil (1937-1945), the Austrian Standestaat (1933-1938), and authoritarian experiments in Estonia, Romania, and some other countries of East and East-Central Europe,
- ^ a b Payne, Stanley G. (1995). A History of Fascism, 1914–1945. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 392.
- ^ Gheorghe Stoica, "Agârbiceanu la Tribuna – Cluj. 1938–1940", in Tribuna Documenta, Issue 1, 2004, p. VII