Nationalist Party (Greece)

Defunct political party in Greece

Nationalist Party

Κόμμα Εθνικοφρόνων

Leader| Alexandros Koumoundouros
Theodoros Diligiannis
Dimitrios Gounaris
Founded| 1865 (1865)
Dissolved| 1916 (1916)
Merger of| Napist Party
Succeeded by| People's Party
Headquarters| Athens
Ideology| Nationalism
Megali Idea
Conservatism
Monarchism
Political position| Right-wing

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The Nationalist Party (Greek: Κόμμα Ἐθνικοφρόνων, Kómma Ethnikofrónōn; literally National Opinion Party) was a conservative and irredentist Greek political party from 1865 to 1916.[1] It was opposed primarily by the New Party of Charilaos Trikoupis.

## History[edit]

The Nationalist Party was formed after the previous major-power client political parties, the Russian Party, English Party and the French Party, ceased to be factors after the reign of King Otto in 1865. The first leader of the Nationalist Party was Alexandros Koumoundouros, who served as Prime Minister of Greece ten times from 1865 to 1882.[2] Koumoundouros was able to draw many of the conservative stalwarts of the old Russian Party with some of the other two parties to develop a coherent, albeit mostly personality-driven, party of the right. Koumoundouros was succeeded as party leader and Prime Minister by Theodoros Deligiannis, who famously stated that he "was against everything Trikoupis was for". By stoking the fires of nationalism and territorial expansion, Deligiannis was able to take advantage of military events and economic downturns to propel himself to power.

Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, Greece developed a stable two-party system with the premiership alternating between Deligiannis and Trikoupis. Deligiannis was assassinated in 1905 by a gambler who was outraged at Deligiannis's proposal to curtail gambling. With Deligiannis's death, the Nationalist Party began to splinter. Many of the conservative leaders followed Dimitrios Gounaris' so-called "Japanese Group", and later formed the People's Party.

## Leaders[edit]

* Alexandros Koumoundouros (1865–1883)
* Theodoros Deligiannis (1883–1905)
* Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis (1905–1916)

## References[edit]

1. ^ "DOMESTIC POLICY [1833-1897]". www.ime.gr. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
2. ^ Music, language and identity in Greece : defining a national art music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Polina Tambakaki, Panos Vlagopoulos, Ekaterini Levidou, Roderick Beaton. London. 2020. ISBN 978-1-351-99550-4. OCLC 1105736722.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)