National Unionist Party (Greece)

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National Unionist Party Εθνικόν Ενωτικόν Κόμμα
Leader	Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
Founded	1935
Dissolved	1950
Merged into	People's Unionist Party
Headquarters	Athens
Ideology	Venizelism Progressivism Economic liberalism
Political position	Centre to centre-right
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National Unionist Party (Greek: Εθνικόν Ενωτικόν Κόμμα (ΕΕΚ), EEK) was a centre-right political party in Greece, founded in 1935 by Panagiotis Kanellopoulos and other Venizelist politicians.

History[edit]

This party generally had democratic and progressive tendencies and was represented in the Greek Parliament in the post-war period, as emerged during the elections of 1946, as well as in the elections of 1950, with a small group of MPs.

In December 1950, the E.E.K. merged with a group of MPs led by Stefanos Stefanopoulos, who had split from the People's Party, creating the People's Unionist Party, which later joined the Greek Rally after a short period of time.

The party's publication was the newspaper "Elliniki Foni" (Greek Voice), where well-known academics and friends of Kanellopoulos, such as Konstantinos Despotopoulos, Phaidon Vegleris, and Ioannis Theodorakopoulos, later contributed as writers.

Greek Parliament[edit]

Sources[edit]

The Great Greek Encyclopedia (Greek: Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια) volume B' (supplement), page 789.

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