Republican Union (Portugal)
{{Short description|Portuguese political party}}
{{Infobox political party
| name = Republican Union Party
| native_name = Partido da União Republicana
| native_name_lang = pt
| colorcode = {{party color|Republican Union (Portugal)}}
| abbreviation = PUR
| leader = Manuel de Brito Camacho
| founded = 24 February 1912
| dissolved = 1919
| split = Portuguese Republican Party
| merged = Republican Liberal Party
| ideology = ConservatismErnesto Castro Leal (2008), Partidos e Programas
O campo partidário republicano português 1910-1926, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra {{cite thesis |last=VIEIRA |first= Duarte Pedro Cação |date= 2019|title= A Burguesia às Urnas? - O Voto na 1ª República (As Eleições de 1922) |url= https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/19044/1/master_duarte_cacao_vieira.pdf |work= |degree= Masters |location= Lisbon |publisher= ISCTE IUL |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= 3 March 2025}}
| position = Center-right
| country = Portugal
}}
{{Politics of Portugal}}
The Republican Union Party ({{langx|pt|Partido da União Republicana}}, PUR), commonly known as the Republican Union or the Unionist Party, was a political party in Portugal.
History
The party was established on 24 February 1912 as the result of a split in the National Republican Union (UNR), with one faction breaking away to form the Evolutionist Party and the rump of the UNR becoming the Republican Union.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1548 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}Vincent E. McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe: Poland-Yugoslavia, Greenwood Press, p762 It won 15 seats in the House of Representatives and 11 seats in the Senate in the 1915 parliamentary elections, emerging as the third-largest faction after the Democratic Party.
The party boycotted the 1918 elections,Nohlen & Stöver, p1557 but returned to run in the 1919 elections, in which it won 17 House seats, regaining its place as the third-largest party.
In 1919 the party merged with the Evolutionist Party to form the Republican Liberal Party.
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Category:1912 establishments in Portugal