National Christian Party
National Christian Party Partidul Național Creștin | |
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| Leader | Nichifor Crainic Octavian Goga A. C. Cuza |
| Founded | 14 July 1935 |
| Banned | 10 February 1938 |
| Merger of | National Agrarian Party National-Christian Defense League |
| Headquarters | Bucharest |
| Newspaper | Apărarea Națională (1922-1938) Țara Noastră (1907-1938) Izbânda Național Creștină (1935-1938) |
| Youth wing | National Christian Youth |
| Paramilitary wing | Lancers |
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| Political position | Far-right |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodoxy |
| Slogan | Hristos, Regele, Națiunea! (Christ, King, Nation!) |
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The National Christian Party (Romanian: Partidul Național Creștin) was a far-right, authoritarian, and strongly antisemitic political party in the Kingdom of Romania, active between 1935 and 1938. It was formed by a merger of Octavian Goga's National Agrarian Party (PNA) and A. C. Cuza's National-Christian Defense League (LANC). Among its members was the philosopher Nichifor Crainic, the party's main ideologue. In December 1937, Goga was chosen by King Carol II to form a government that included Cuza; the government lasted only 44 days and was followed by a royal dictatorship under Carol II. The party's members were commonly nicknamed the “Gogo-Cuzists” or simply “Cuzists”, referring to Cuza's wing within the party and the former LANC militants, who were far more notorious than Goga's PNA due to violent street clashes and virulent antisemitic rhetoric throughout the 1920s.