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New Republic Party

political party, South Africa
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Also known as: NRP, Nuwe Republikeinse Party
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Afrikaans:
Nuwe Republikeinse Party (NRP)
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1977 - present
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New Republic Party, former South African political party founded in 1977 as the direct successor to the United Party. The majority faction of the United Party, seeing its party disintegrating by defections to other new parties and to the ruling National Party, decided formally to disband the party on June 28, 1977. On the next day the group founded the New Republic Party. The new party then had a holdover of 23 seats in the House of Assembly; the next year, in the general elections, the representation dropped to 10 members. In the elections of 1981 the representation declined further, ...(100 of 168 words)

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