Last president Iuliu Maniu Dissolved 1948 | Founded 10 October 1926 | |
Merger of Romanian National Party and Peasants' Party Succeeded by Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (1989) Ideology Monarchism
Agrarianism
Conservatism
Social corporatism | ||
The National Peasants' Party (Partidul Național Țărănesc or PNȚ) was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party (Partidul Național Român) from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party (Partidul Țărănesc) from the prewar kingdom. It was in power for most of the time between 1928 and 1933 with longtime leader Iuliu Maniu as prime minister. A moderately conservative party, with some left-wing corporatist views (supporting, for instance, voluntary cooperative farming), it remained staunchly pro-monarchy.
A former member, Corneliu Coposu, claimed that 270,000 PNȚ members were sent to prisons and work camps, where three quarters of them perished, beginning in 1947 when the party was banned by the Communist government following the Tămădău Affair. Both party president Iuliu Maniu and deputy leader Ion Mihalache died in prison during the Communist regime.
Former PNȚ members Corneliu Coposu and Ion Rațiu founded a new party in December 1989 under the name Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Partidul Național Țărănesc Creștin și Democrat, PNȚCD or PNȚcd). It was the first officially registered political party after the fall of Communism.