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{{Infobox political party
| name = National Monarchist Union
| colorcode =
| native_name = Unión Monárquica Nacional
| president = [[Rafael Benjumea y Burín]]
| secretary = [[Santiago Fuentes Pila]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1930}}
| dissolution = {{end date and age|1934}}
| merged = ''[[Renovación Española]]''
| ideology = [[Monarchism]]<br />[[Authoritarian conservatism]]
| position = [[Far-right politics|Far-right]]
| country = Spain
| youth_wing = ''Juventudes de Unión Monárquica Nacional''{{Sfn|Quiroga Fernández de Soto|2005|pp=92-93}}
}}
The '''National Monarchist Union''' ({{langx|es|Unión Monárquica Nacional|links=no}}; UMN) was a Spanish political party, founded in April 1930 as successor to the [[Spanish Patriotic Union|Patriotic Union]], the official party promoted by the [[dictatorship of Primo de Rivera]]. Its leadership comprised several ministers of the regime as well as the [[José Antonio Primo de Rivera|son of the dictator]].{{Sfnm|Ben Ami|1979|Cuenca Toribio|1996}} Featuring a Neo-Conservative matrix, the party included nonetheless an active group of representatives of the radical right{{Sfn|Gil Pecharromán|1993|p=263}} and vouched for the installation of an Authoritarian monarchy.{{Sfn|Ben Ami|1979|p=61}}
== History ==
Some of the leading figures included [[José Calvo Sotelo]], [[Ramiro de Maeztu]], [[José de Yanguas, 11th Viscount of Santa Clara de Avedillo|José de Yanguas Messía]], [[Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta]], Galo Ponte y Escartín, the marqués de Quintanar, [[Manuel Delgado Barreto]] (editor of ''La Nación''), José Gavilán (the former chairman of the Patriotic Union), [[José Antonio Primo de Rivera]] (the son of the dictator) and the Count of Guadalhorce, who would become the party leader, as it had been the wish of the deceased dictator. Its membership fed from public officers, politicians of the dictatorship, businessmen and engineers.{{Sfn|Ben Ami|1979|p=61}}
There were other minor proposals in the spectrum of the monarchist far right similar to the UMN in 1930: the Independent Monarchist Youth, Monarchist Action, Association of Citizen Reaction of the Alfonso XIII's Monarchist Socialist Party, yet they played a marginal role.{{Sfn|Luis Martín|1990|pp=135-136}}
== See also ==
* [[La Nación (Spain)|''La Nación'' (Spain)]]
== References ==
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;Bibliography
* {{Cite book|last=Álvarez Chillida|first=Gonzalo|title=José María Pemán, pensamiento y trayectoria de un monárquico. (1897-1941)|publisher=[[Universidad de Cádiz|Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz]]|year=1996|isbn=8477863059|author-link=Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Ben Ami|first=Shlomo|author-link=Shlomo Ben Ami|year=1979|title=The Forerunners of Spanish Fascism: Unión Patriótica and Unión Monárquica|journal=European Studies Review|location=Londres y Beverly Hills|publisher=SAGE|volume=9|issue=1|pages=49–79|doi=10.1177/026569147900900104|s2cid=143102141 |issn=0014-3111}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Cuenca Toribio|first=José Manuel|year=1996|title=La Unión Patriótica. Una revisión|url=http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFV/article/viewFile/2919/2779|journal=Espacio, tiempo y forma. Serie V, Historia contemporánea|location=Madrid|publisher=[[Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia]]|volume=9|issn=1130-0124}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Gil Pecharromán|first=Julio|author-link=Julio Gil Pecharromán|year=1993|title=Notables en busca de masas: el conservadurismo en la crisis de la Restauración|journal=Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie V, Historia Contemporánea|location=Madrid|publisher=[[Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia]]|issue=6|doi=10.5944/etfv.6.1993.2855|issn=1130-0124|doi-access=free}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Luis Martín|first=Francisco de|year=1990|title=Aproximación al liberalismo monárquico en la segunda República Española|url=http://campus.usal.es/~revistas_trabajo/index.php/0213-2087/article/viewFile/5765/5797|journal=Studia Histórica. Historia Contemporánea|location=Salamanca|publisher=[[Universidad de Salamanca]]|volume=8|pages=121–141|issn=0213-2087}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Quiroga Fernández de Soto|first=Alejandro|year=2005|title=Perros de paja: las Juventudes de la Unión Patriótica|url=https://www.ahistcon.org/PDF/numeros/ayer59_JuventudPoliticaEspanaContemporanea_GonzalezCalleja.pdf|journal=Ayer|location=Madrid|publisher=Asociación de Historia Contemporánea y Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia|volume=59|pages=69–96|issn=1134-2277|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114173712/https://www.ahistcon.org/PDF/numeros/ayer59_JuventudPoliticaEspanaContemporanea_GonzalezCalleja.pdf|archive-date=14 November 2016}}
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