Freethinkers\' Party (Greece)

The Freethinkers' Party (Greek: Kόμμα των Ελευθεροφρόνων) was a royalist^[1] party established by Ioannis Metaxas in 1922. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly General Ioannis Metaxas (Ιωάννης Μεταξάς ( April 12, 1871 January 29, 1941) was a Greek General and

The first programmatic declaration of the party was published in the daily Nea Imera on 13 October 1922. Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Electoral results

Results 1926–1936 (year links to election page)
Year	Type of Election	Votes	%	Mandates
1926	General	151,660	15. The first legislative elections of the Second Hellenic Republic were held on 7 November, 1926. 78	52
1928	General		5. Legislative elections were held in the Second Hellenic Republic on 19 August, 1928. 3	1
1929	Senate		2. The Senate was a new institution introduced with the Greek Constitution of 1927. 73	2
1932	General	18,591	1. Legislative elections were held in the Second Hellenic Republic on 25 September, 1932. 59	3
1933	General		1. Legislative elections were held in the Second Hellenic Republic on 5 March, 1933. 6	3
1936	General		3. The 26 January 1936 Greek legislative elections were the first held in the restored monarchy. 9	7

References

^ P. J. Vatikiotis, Popular Autocracy in Greece, 1936-41: A Political Biography of General Ioannis Metaxas. Page 153: [. . . ] "in the absence of any other solid evidence in the form of written records what one can say about this matter with relative certainty is that the party sort of emerged from the group of disaffected, royalist officers and his own political cronies in Cephalonia as well as known royalist political figures in Corfu which Metaxas had brought together, after 1918, to oppose the rebel Plastira officer-led republican regime in 1922-23. An important element in the dissemination of the new party's views was a faction of the royalist press".