New force

Fuerza Nueva (FN) was a Spanish far-right political party, founded in 1976 and which disappeared in 1982. It was led by Blas Piñar López, also Secretary General and president of the party, had its origin in a company and publishing house established in 1966, Fuerza Nueva Editorial, which would give rise to a political association and, later, to the aforementioned party. The publishing house has been publishing the homonymous magazine since 1967.

This formation was a response to the ideology closest to the Italian fascist currents which inspired José Antonio Primo de Rivera, while Fuerza Nueva clung to a model of Spanish fascism which was monarchical-authoritarian, Carlist and traditional- Catholic inspired the absolute monarchy close to the initial ideals of Francisco Franco Bahamonde.

History

Aerial view of the convent of San Miguel de la Victoria de Priego (Cuenca). There took place in 1964 the meeting convened by Blas Piñar from which the New Force project arose.

Fuerza Nueva arose from the hand of Blas Piñar who stated that the idea was born during spiritual exercises in Cuenca in 1965. According to Xavier Casals, the meeting called by Blas Piñar from which the Fuerza Nueva project arose took place in the convent of San Miguel de la Victoria de Priego a year earlier. There they discussed a plan "to clarify ideas with a supernatural vision and [...] fight against the forces of evil on a universal scale".

In May 1966, Fuerza Nueva Editorial S.A. was founded, which began publishing the magazine of the same name in 1967. On October 19, 1976, it was constituted as a party with the aim of keeping alive the ideological principles of the Uprising National of July 18 and the Franco dictatorship.

During the years of the Transition, she was involved due to her support or intervention in various far-right attacks against strikers, left-wing politicians, trade unionists, neighborhood or student demonstrations, and newspaper newsrooms. One of these groups, the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey, to which prominent members of Fuerza Nueva belonged, was responsible for the murder of several people during those years. Among the terrorist attacks attributed to Fuerza Nueva militants were the Atocha massacre of 1977 or the murder of the activist Yolanda González, militant of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, in 1980. Likewise, her relations during her first years with the Independent Spanish Falange were quite tense, unlike with FE de las JONS.

He stood alone in the 1977 Spanish general elections for the Congress of Deputies and for the Senate in the Alianza Nacional 18 de Julio coalition, obtaining 67,336 votes (0.37%). These results were higher than those obtained by other forces such as the Spanish Falange of the JONS (Authentic) with 46,548 votes (0.25%), or the Spanish Falange of the JONS with 25,017 votes (0.14%). In 1978, before the referendum for the ratification of the Spanish Constitution, he asked for a negative vote on it.

The party had its national headquarters since July 1979, when it was inaugurated at number 8, Calle de Mejía Lequerica in Madrid, in a building that had previously belonged to Papelera Española.

In the 1979 elections, Fuerza Nueva re-presented itself within a broader coalition called the National Union (together with FE de las JONS, José Antonio Doctrinal Circles, the Traditionalist Communion, the Association of Traditionalist Youth, and the National Confederation of Combatants)., obtaining 378,964 votes (2.11%) and one deputy in the person of Blas Piñar, for the Madrid constituency.

At that time, Fuerza Nueva was at the height of its political life. Participation in their acts was high, for example, the concentrations in the Plaza de Oriente on the occasion of 20-N or in bullrings (Madrid, Valencia, etc.) to commemorate July 18, but this participation and adherence later It was not matched with electoral results. In fact, for the first regional elections to the Andalusian Parliament, in which Fuerza Nueva ran, the motto chosen was "Your applause, one vote."

Several consequences lead to the debacle of 1982: the UN coalition splits before the general elections in October of that year, and at the same time a dismemberment of the UCD occurs, so that the "right-wing" electorate mobilizes around Alianza Popular or around regionalist parties. Finally, Fuerza Nueva stood alone in the 1982 general elections, obtaining 108,746 votes (0.52%) and no seats. These results and the economic debts led to the dissolution as a political party on November 20 of that same year. Since then, Fuerza Nueva has been a magazine (first weekly, then biweekly) directed by Luis Fernández Villamea.

The party had no participation in the military coup of February 23, 1981, carried out by members of the Civil Guard and the Army.

The party was present in all the Spanish provinces, their capitals and main towns. It included the youth of Fuerza Joven (FJ). Numerous leaders of subsequent national parties have passed through Fuerza Joven, such as José Luis Corral, leader of the Spanish Catholic Movement, Rafael López-Diéguez, general secretary of Alternativa Española or Ricardo Sáenz de Ynestrillas, founder of the Spanish Social Movement and later leader of the Alliance for National Unity and whose father was murdered by ETA. Other characters from Spanish social life also passed through the ranks of this political formation, such as José María del Nido, businessman and former president of Sevilla FC or Javier Tebas, president of the National Professional Soccer League.

After its dissolution, the formation was heir to the so-called National Front, a political party founded in 1986 and which existed until 1993.

Currently, Fuerza Nueva Editorial continues to carry out activities such as cultural conferences, brotherhood lunches and dinners on the dates of July 18 and November 20, the fortnightly edition of its magazine and the publication of books on thematic religious, historical and political.

Symbols

• Distinctive: a shield with the yoke and arrows, taken from the symbols of the Catholic Kings and the Burgundy Cross.
• Uniform: in imitation of the single party during the Francoist period (FET and the JONS), the New Force used the falangist blue shirt and the red coil of Carlism.
• Flag: square (of proportions 1:1), diagonally divided from the bottom to the top of the slope, red the top and blue the bottom.
• Hymns: “Cara al sol” and “Marcha de Oriamendi”. In addition, New Force composed its own hymn.
• It reads: “God, Homeland and Justice”.

Election results