The National Agrarian Party (Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

:Partidul Naţional Agrar) was a right-wing agrarian

Agrarianism

Agrarianism has two common meanings. The first meaning refers to a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values...

 political party active in Romania

Romania

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 during the early 1930s.

The party emerged in 1932 following a split in the People's Party and in response to the conversion of its founder the poet Octavian Goga

Octavian Goga

Octavian Goga was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.-Life:Born in Răşinari, nearby Sibiu, he was an active member in the Romanian nationalistic movement in Transylvania and of its leading group, the Romanian National Party in Austria-Hungary. Before World War I,...

 to anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism

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. Goga had managed to convince much of the membership of General Alexandru Averescu's party to follow him into the new group.

Under the Goga's leadership the National Agrarian Party espoused an authoritarian

Authoritarianism

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 nationalist

Nationalism

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 ideology

Ideology

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. It adopted "Christ! King! Fatherland!" as its slogan, a rallying cry already associated with Goga before the party's formation.

In July 1935 the group merged with A. C. Cuza

A. C. Cuza

A. C. Cuza was a Romanian far right politician and theorist.-Early life:Born in Iaşi, after attending secondary school in his native city and in Dresden, Cuza studied law at the University of Paris, the Universität unter den Linden, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles...

's National-Christian Defense League

National-Christian Defense League

The National-Christian Defense League was a virulently anti-Semitic political party of Romania formed by A. C. Cuza.-Origins:The group had its roots in the National Christian Union, formed in 1922 by Cuza and the famed physiologist Nicolae Paulescu. This group, which used the swastika as its...

 to form the National Christian Party

National Christian Party

The National Christian Party was a Romanian political party, the product of a union between Octavian Goga's National Agrarian Party and A. C. Cuza's National-Christian Defense League; a prominent member of the party was the philosopher Nichifor Crainic...

, a hard-line Anti-Semitic group that sought to challenge the Iron Guard

Iron Guard

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 whilst remaining close to more mainstream conservative

Conservatism

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 forces. Pressure for this move had come from the office of Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

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 in Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

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, where a stronger anti-Semitic party in Romania was seen as desirable.