The Estonian People's Party ( et, Eesti Rahvaerakond, ER) was a

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...

political party in

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

History

The party was established in March 1919 by a merger of the

Estonian Democratic Party The Estonian Democratic Party (, EDE) was a political party in Estonia. History The party had its roots in the Estonian national movement towards the end of the 19th century. It was formally founded by Jaan Tõnisson in the city of Tartu in 1905 ...

and the

Estonian Radical Democratic Party The Estonian Radical Democratic Party (, ERDE) was a political party in Estonia. History The party had its roots in the Tallinn Radicals, who had formed in the early 1900s around Konstantin Päts and his '' Teataja'' newspaper.Vincent E McHale ( ...

.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p385 Some right-wing members of the Democratic Party opposed merging with the Radical Democrats and broke away to form the

Christian Democratic Party __NOTOC__ Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social tea ...

.McHale, p386 In the April 1919 Constituent Assembly elections the new party won 25 of the 120 seats, becoming the third-largest party in the Assembly. However, the 1920 election saw it reduced to 10 seats in the 100-seat

Riigikogu The Riigikogu (; from Estonian ''riigi-'', of the state, and ''kogu'', assembly) is the unicameral parliament of Estonia. In addition to approving legislation, the Parliament appoints high officials, including the Prime Minister and Chief Just ...

. It won eight seats in the

1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...

and

1926 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1926. Africa * 1926 Egyptian parliamentary election * 1926 Lagos by-election * 1926 Northern Rhodesian general election * 1926 South West African legislative election Asia * 1926 Hong Kong sanitar ...

, and nine in the 1929 elections. In October 1931 it merged with Christian People's Party to form the United Nationalist Party, which was joined by the

Estonian Labour Party The Estonian Labour Party ( et, Eesti Tööerakond, ETE) was a political party in Estonia. It was formed in 1919 by a merger of the Radical Socialist Party and the Social Travaillist Party, and ceased to exist in 1932, when it merged with other ce ...

in January 1932, becoming the National Centre Party.McHale, p384

References

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