Agrarian Party (Czechoslovakia)
The Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants (, , RSZML) was a centre-right agrarian party of Czechoslovakia, seen as representing big business and agriculture. In the period up to 1935 it was the biggest and most influential political party in the country. Led by Antonín Švehla and Milan Hodža, the party influenced Czechoslovak politics between World War I and World War II. It participated in the Pětka coalition governments, and it was a member of the International Agrarian Bureau. History The party was established in 1922 as a merger of the Czech Agrarian Party and the Slovak National Republican and Peasant Party.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p151 In the 1925 elections it won 45 of the 300 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, becoming the largest party in Parliament. In the same year it introduced an agrarian tariff which was seen as protecting the producers interest, motivated by the country's agrarian crisis. It is argued th ...
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