National Front
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The name National Front is used by a number of political parties and coalitions.
- Albania — National Front (Albania)National Front (Albania)The party of the Albanian National Front is a nationalist political party in Albania. In the 2001 elections it was part of the Union for Victory coalition which received 37.1% of the vote and 46 members of parliament....
- Belarus — Partyja BPF
- Belgium — National Front (Belgium)National Front (Belgium)The National Front is a francophone Belgian far-right political party. The party's ideology advocates a strong unitary Belgian nationalism and is strongly against immigration.The party's acting leader is Patrick Cocriamont....
- Botswana — Botswana National FrontBotswana National FrontThe Botswana National Front has been the main opposition party in Botswana since the 1969 elections.It achieved its greatest electoral success in the 1994 elections, when it won 37.1% of the vote and 13 of 40 parliamentary seats. A factional conflict in 1998 led to the departure of 11 of these...
- Burma — Chin National Front
- Chad — National Front for the Renewal of Chad (FNTR)
- Ethiopia — Ethiopian National Front
- France — National Front (France)
- Germany — National Front (East Germany)National Front (East Germany)The National Front of the German Democratic Republic was an alliance of political parties and mass organisations in East Germany...
- Nationalistische FrontNationalist FrontNationalistische Front was a minor German neo-Nazi group active during the 1980s.Founded in 1985 by Meinolf Schönborn the group, which had no more than 150 members, was characterized by its support for Strasserism rather than more usual forms of Nazism...
, a German neo-Nazi group that is sometimes translated as National Front. - India — Mizo National FrontMizo National FrontMizo National Front is a regional political party in Mizoram, India. MNF emerged out of the Mizo National Famine Front, which was formed by Pu Laldenga to protest against the inaction of the Indian central government towards the famine situation in the Mizo areas of the Assam state in 1959. It...
- India — National Front (India)National Front (India)The National Front was a coalition of political parties, led by the Janata Dal, which formed India's government between 1989 and 1990 under the leadership of N. T. Rama Rao as President and V. P. Singh as Convener. The coalition's prime minister was V. P. Singh...
- Iran — National Front (Iran)National Front (Iran)The National Front of Iran or Jebhe Melli is a Democratic, political opposition group founded by Mohammad Mossadegh and other secular Iranian leaders of Nationalist, Liberal, and Social-Democratic political orientation who had been educated in France in the late 1940s...
(Jebhe-ye Melli Iran) - Latvia — National Front
- Libya — National Front for the Salvation of LibyaNational Front for the Salvation of LibyaThe National Front for the Salvation of Libya is an opposition movement to Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime in Libya. NFSL was established on 7 October 1981 at a press conference held in Khartoum, Sudan...
- Malaysia — National Front (Malaysia)
- New Zealand — New Zealand National FrontNew Zealand National FrontThe New Zealand National Front is a small white nationalist political party in New Zealand.-First formation:Mirroring developments in the UK, a group called the National Front evolved out of the New Zealand branch of the League of Empire Loyalists in 1967...
- Pakistan — Balawaristan National FrontBalawaristan National FrontThe Balawaristan National Front is a political party seeking the independence of what they call Balawaristan located in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.-Background:...
- Spain — Frente Nacional (Spain)Frente Nacional (Spain)There have been two political parties which have gone by the name National Front . They are:* The Frente Nacional founded by Blas Piñar, which existed between 1983 and 1995: National Front...
- Sri Lanka — United National Front (Sri Lanka)
- Swaziland — Swaziland National Front
- United Kingdom — National Front (UK)
Defunct political parties
- Australia — National Front (Australia)National Front (Australia)The National Front of Australia was an Australia nationalist and anti-immigrant organisation that existed from 1977 to 1984. It was an initiative of John Tyndall of the British National Front but received no funding from the British NF...
- Colombia — National Front (Colombia)National Front (Colombia)National Front was a period in the history of Colombia in which the two main political parties; Liberal Party and Conservative Party agreed to let the opposite party govern, intercalating for a period of four presidential terms....
(often translated as National Front) - Czechoslovakia — National Front (Czechoslovakia)National Front (Czechoslovakia)The National Front was the coalition of parties which headed the re-established Czechoslovakian government from 1945 to 1948. During the Communist era in Czechoslovakia it was the vehicle for control of all political and social activity by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia...
- East Germany — Nationale Front (East Germany)
- Estonia — RahvarinneRahvarinneThe Popular Front of Estonia - initially introduced to the public by Estonian politician Edgar Savisaar as the "Popular Front for the Support of Perestroika" - a name soon discarded - was a political organization in Estonia in late 1980s and early 1990s...
- Finland — Finnish People's Blue-whitesFinnish People's Blue-whitesThe Finnish People's Blue-whites was a Finnish political party with a far-right nationalist agenda, led by the controversial political figure Olavi Mäenpää. It was founded in 1993 as Independent People's Front , and was known as National Front from 1997 until 2001...
, known as National Front in 1997–2001 - France — Front National (Resistance movement)
- Greece — National Front (Greece)National Front (Greece)The National Front was a far-right Greek, anti-Semitic nationalist political party. It was active in the 1980s and 1990s.It was led by M. Konstas. It published the magazine Metopo. A youth wing, headed by Dimitris Sartzetakis, published Nea Tasis .-External references:* Daniel Perdurant, ,...
- India — National Front (India)National Front (India)The National Front was a coalition of political parties, led by the Janata Dal, which formed India's government between 1989 and 1990 under the leadership of N. T. Rama Rao as President and V. P. Singh as Convener. The coalition's prime minister was V. P. Singh...
- Italy — Fronte NazionaleFronte NazionaleFronte Nazionale is a name that has been used for several Neofascist political parties and movements in Italy.-Junio Valerio Borghese FN:...
- Namibia — Namibia National FrontNamibia National FrontThe Namibia National Front was an alliance of moderate parties in Namibia. It was formed in 1977 as a merger of the Namibia National Convention and the Namibia National Council....
- Netherlands — National Front (Netherlands), (1934-)1937-1941
- Spain — Frente NacionalFrente Nacional (Spain)There have been two political parties which have gone by the name National Front . They are:* The Frente Nacional founded by Blas Piñar, which existed between 1983 and 1995: National Front...
- Switzerland — National Front (Switzerland)National Front (Switzerland)The National Front was a far right political party in Switzerland that flourished during the 1930s.The party began life amongst a number of debating clubs at the University of Zurich, where anti-Semitism, Swiss nationalism and support for ideas similar to those later adopted in the racial policy of...
See also
- National Resistance Front (disambiguation)
- Front National (disambiguation)
- Popular frontPopular frontA popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal forces as well as socialist and communist groups...
- United frontUnited frontThe united front is a form of struggle that may be pursued by revolutionaries. The basic theory of the united front tactic was first developed by the Comintern, an international communist organisation created by revolutionaries in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.According to the theses of...