Catholic Royalist Party

Not to be confused with the Catholic Emergence Party.

Catholic Royalist Party Partido Real Católico
Party logo from 1902.
Abbreviation	PRC
Caudillo	Antonio Sáenz Heredia
Founder	Francisco Dueñas Díaz
Founded	3 December 1887 (1887-12-03)
Legalized	10 December 1887 (1887-12-10)
Dissolved	4 October 1949 (1949-10-04)
Split from	National Conservative Party
Merged into	Creeperian Initiative
Headquarters	San Salvador, Creeperopolis
Newspaper	El Gran Católico
Student wing	Frente de Juventudes
Youth wing	Juventudes Católicos
Women's wing	Sección Femenina
Paramilitary wing	Falange Creeperiano
Membership (1930)	2,900,000 (party claim)
Ideology	Sáenzism–Falangism National Catholicism Monarchism Nationalism Social conservatism Anti-secularism Anti-atheism (from 1902) Anti-Islamism (from 1902) Anti-Protestantism (from 1902) Anti-communism (from 1902) Adolfism Romerism (from 1933)
Political position	Right-wing to far-right
Religion	Creeperian Catholicism
National affiliation	Creeperian Conservative Coalition
Colors	Red,   black,   gold
Slogan	¡Presente por la'Patria!"
Anthem	Cara'l Sol
Parliament (1932)	25 / 100
Party flag from 1902.
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The Catholic Royalist Party (Creeperian Spanish: Partido Real Católico; abbreviated PRC), also contemporarily referred to as the Sáenist Faction (Creeperian Spanish: Facción Sáenista) and The Fascists (Creeperian Spanish: Los'Fascistas) by leftists, was a right-wing to far-right political party which was active from 1887 to 1949 during the Second Parliamentary Era of Creeperopolis.

The party split from the National Conservative Party (PCN) shortly after the its establishment due to disagreements over certain political agendas. It was founded by Francisco Dueñas Díaz, a former military commander during the Adolfisto. After his resignation as party leader in 1901, he was succeeded by Antonio Sáenz Heredia, who assumed total control of the party by 1902. With Sáenz Heredia as the party's Caudillo, the party shifted further to the right and adopted several new extreme-right ideologies. Additionally, the party established a paramilitary wing, the Falange Creeperiano, and began to adopt dictatorial ambitions, with the end goal of abolishing democracy in Creeperopolis and ruling the country with the Emperor as a figurehead. Despite various attempts to do so, political and civilian opposition prevented the party from completely taking control of the government, however, the party did wield significant power, with Sáenz Heredia holding the position of prime minister on four different occasions.

National Catholicism and monarchism were the party's primary ideologies, with other core ideologies being nationalism, social conservatism, and anti-secularism. From 1902, the party also adopted anti-atheism, anti-Islamism, anti-Protestantism, anti-communism, and in 1933, Romerism. The ideologies of the party have broadly been combined by political scientists as Sáenzism–Falangism.

During the Creeperian Civil War, the party supported the far-right Catholic Imperial Restoration Council (CRIC), being one of the faction's most important supporters. The Imperial Council eventually won the civil war, defeating the far-left National Council for Peace and Order (CNPO) in the Battle of the Zapatista River on 30 September 1949. On 4 October 1949, the party was abolished and merged into the Nationalist Creeperian Catholic Royal Initiative and the Pro-Fatherland Front of Unification (IRCCN y la'FPPU; Creeperian Initiative), together with the National Conservative Party and the Creeperian Pro-Fatherland Front. Sáenz Heredia was appointed as the new party's secretary and held the position until his death in 1957.

The Catholic Royalist Party is considered to be one of the most important political entities of the Second Parliamentary Era. Of the parties that merged to form the Creeperian Initiative, the structure and ideals of the Catholic Royalist Party were, and remain, the most pronounced, as the party currently is very National Catholic, monarchist, nationalist, anti-communist, and Romerist. Additionally, the party's symbol, the yugo y flechas (yoke and arrows), was added onto the flag of Creeperopolis in 1933 by the Imperial Council, and it currently remains on the national flag, solidifying the party's influence on modern Creeperopolis.

Names

The party was founded as the Catholic Royalist Party (Partido Real Católico; PRC) and it retained the same name throughout its entire existence, although, there were some proposals by some high-ranking party members to change the party's name to the Catholic Romerist Party (Partido Romeristo Católico; PRC) during the late-1940s.

Several leftists and leftists organizations had various pejorative nicknames for the Catholic Royalist Party. The most commonly used nickname was the Sáenist Faction (Facción Sáenista), or sometimes the Sáenist Band (Banda Sáenista). The party was also referred to as The Fascists (Las'Fascistas), however, the name was used less frequently towards the end of the Second Parliamentary Era as it had begun to be applied more in reference to the Creeperian Pro-Fatherland Front (FPPC). Some moderate-rightist politicians referred to the party as the Absolutists (Absolutos) and the Fundamentalists (Fundamentalistas).

Party composition

Command structure

Primary party leader

No.	Leader		Term
			Term started	Term ended
Chairman of the Catholic Royalist Party
1.		Francisco Dueñas Díaz (1840–1905)	3 December 1887	13 December 1901
			14 years and 10 days
2.		Antonio Sáenz Heredia (1871–1957)	13 December 1901	17 February 1902
			66 days
Caudillo of the Catholic Royalist Party
2.		Antonio Sáenz Heredia (1871–1957)	17 February 1902	4 October 1949
			47 years and 229 days

Party symbology

Party anthem: Cara'l Sol

Creeperian Spanish

Translation

Cara'l Sol con la'camisa nueva, Que bos bordaste en rojo ayer, Me hallará la'muerte si me lleva, Y no te vuelvo a ver. Formaré junto a mis'compañeros, Que hacen guardia sobre los'luceros, Impasible'l ademán, y 'stán, Presentes en nuestro afán. Si te dicen que caí, Me fui'l puesto que tengo allí. Volverán banderas victoriosas, Al paso alegre de la'paz, Y traerán prendidas cinco rosas: Las'flechas de mi haz. Volverá a reír la'primavera, Que por cielo, tierra, y mar sespera. Arriba, escuadras a vencer, ¡Quen la'Patria empieza amanecer!

Facing the Sun with my new shirt, Which you covered in blood yesterday, Death will find me if it takes me, And I won't see you again. I will form together with my companions, Who stand guard over the stars, Their gesture is impassable, and they are, Present in out eagerness. If they tell you that I fell, I went to the post I have there. They will return with victorious banners, At the joyous pace of peace, And they bring five roses: The arrows of my beam. The spring will laugh again, For by sky, land, and sea awaits. Arise, squadrons to victory, For in the Fatherland, dawn begins!

Electoral results

Parliament

Election	Votes	%	Position	Seats	+/–	Status in legislature	Leader
1887	387,932	11.78%	3rd	10 / 100	New	Opposition	Francisco Dueñas Díaz
1892	503,850	12.41%	3rd	29 / 230	19	Junior party in coalition
1897	874,085	19.94%	3rd	49 / 230	20	Junior party in coalition
1902	1,665,605	34.76%	2nd	89 / 230	40	Senior party in coalition	Antonio Sáenz Heredia
1907	2,045,803	32.71%	1st	93 / 230	4	Opposition
1912	2,796,402	44.19%	1st	119 / 235	26	Senior party in coalition
1917	1,934,804	30.67%	1st	99 / 235	20	Opposition
1922	18,970,438	38.70%	1st	111 / 245	12	Senior party in coalition
1927	19,443,703	40.68%	1st	112 / 245	1	Opposition
1932	20,448,303	41.53%	1st	113 / 245	1	Senior party in coalition

See also

• Castillianan Coalition of Autonomous Rights, a similar party in Castilliano

External links

• Catholic Royalist Party (IIWiki; 29 February 2020)