The Philippine Falange, the informal name for the Spanish National Assemblies of the Philippines(Juntas Nacional Española) was a Philippine falangist

Falangism

Falangism is the political ideology of the Spanish Falange as well as derivatives of it in other countries. In its original form, Falangism is widely associated as a fascist ideology, the Spanish Falange denied this, claiming it was not a copy of any foreign movement...

 political party that was a branch of the Spanish Falange

Falange

The Spanish Phalanx of the Assemblies of the National Syndicalist Offensive , known simply as the Falange, is the name assigned to several political movements and parties dating from the 1930s, most particularly the original fascist movement in Spain. The word means phalanx formation in Spanish....

. It was founded in 1936. The party was initially led from the late 1930s by Spanish citizen and businessman Andrés Soriano

Andrés Soriano

Andrés Soriano was an influential Spanish citizen businessman in the Philippines and the leader of the Philippine Falange, acting as an agent of Spanish ruler Francisco Franco of the Spanish Falange from the late 1930s. He served as finance minister of the Philippines during the Quezon administration...

. A leadership struggle occurred between Martín Pou

Martín Pou

Martín Pou was a lawyer from Mallorca who was leader of the Philippine Falange....

 and Enrique Zobel

Enrique Zobel de Ayala

Enrique Zobel de Ayala was a leadership figure of the Philippine Falange during the 1930s and 1940s, who challenged the leadership of Martín Pou over the party....

.

Eventually, it end up dissolved especially after Soriano applied for Filipino citizenship, which quietly end approved by the government in pursuit of preventing accused of supporting the Axis Powers

Axis Powers

The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...

; others followed suit, preventing the threat of their properties being seized by the Allied powers. Other members also collaborated with the Japanese during the occupation, excluding Soriano who joined with Quezon and the Philippine Commonwealth in the United States, as well as the Basques who formed guerrilla forces in Negros.