The Patriotic Front () was a political party in

Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl ...

led by

Glafcos Clerides Glafcos Ioannou Clerides (; 24 April 1919 – 15 November 2013) was a Cypriot statesman, who served as President of Cyprus in 1974 and from 1993 to 2003. A barrister and former Royal Air Force pilot, Clerides played an important role in the ...

.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p121

History

The party was formed in 1959 as a replacement for the United Democratic Reconstruction Front by a loose coalition of supporters of

Makarios III Makarios III (born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos; 13 August 1913 – 3 August 1977) was a Greek Cypriots, Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president o ...

,Political parties

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including the district leaders of

EOKA The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA ; ) was a Greek Cypriot nationalist guerrilla organization that fought a campaign for the end of Cyprus#Cyprus under the British Empire, British rule in Cyprus, and for enosis, eventual union with K ...

.Marshall William Conley (1967
Political Community and Social Conflict: Cyprus
/ref> The Front won the pre-independence elections in 1960, taking 30 of the 35 seats reserved for

Greek Cypriots Greek Cypriots (, ) are the ethnic Greeks, Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest Ethnolinguistic group, ethnolinguistic community. According to the 2023 census, 719,252 respondents recorded their ethnicity as Greek, forming al ...

Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An ex ...

& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p444 However, the party was dissolved in the late 1960s, breaking into several factions, including

Eniaion The United Party (), known in Greek simply as Eniaion ("United"), was a short-lived moderate right-wing political party in Cyprus. History The party was established by Glafcos Clerides in February 1969 as a split from the Patriotic Front.

, the Progressive Front, the Progressive Party and the Democratic National Party.

Ideology

The party was initially a personal party for Makarios III, but later evolved into a conservative and nationalist party.

References

Defunct political parties in Cyprus Greek Cypriot nationalism Political parties established in 1959 1959 establishments in Cyprus {{Cyprus-party-stub