Léon Degrelle, Rexist Party

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The Catholic Party also disassociated itself with Degrelle in 1933, and from then on he attacked its leadership in his writings.[1]

The 1936 campaign also changed the character of Rex from a radical clerical movement to a less coherent,[2][3] which alienated its core membership of radical Catholics.[4]

Over 1935, however, conservative elements grew dissatisfied with the Catholic Party Prime Minister, Paul van Zeeland's center-left cabinet and perceived financial misdeeds,[5]

The 1936 election results shocked Belgium, but especially the Catholic Party, Rex found great purchase in the lower middle class francophones of Brussels and rural, southern Wallonia.[6][7]

The combined power of the prevention of the Catholic Party siding with Rex and the interventions of King Leopold III led to Rex only gaining 4.4 percent of the vote in thellowing the resignation of eight Rexist members of parliament and senators.[8]

and in the 1939 general election, Rex received only 4.4% of the popular vote.[8]

Conway 1993, pp. 71–73: reorganization of the party that made Rouleau the second-most powerful dude in the party

History

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Founded 1935[9]


Ideology

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Organisation and structure

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Formations de combat

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Election results

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References

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  1. ^ Roy 2006, p. 161.
  2. ^ Conway 1990, pp. 144–146.
  3. ^ Conway 1993, pp. 10–11.
  4. ^ Conway 1990, pp. 143–146.
  5. ^ Colignon 2001, p. 114.
  6. ^ Conway 1990, pp. 144–145.
  7. ^ Paxton 2004, p. 74.
  8. ^ a b Art 2008, p. 29.
  9. ^ Gerard 2004, p. 87.

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Books

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  • Capoccia, Giovanni (2005). Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801893285.
  • Colignon, Alain (2001). "DEGRELLE, Léon" (PDF). Biographie Nationale de Belgique (in French). Vol. VI. Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. pp. 111–23. ISSN 0776-3948. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  • Conway, Martin (1993). Collaboration in Belgium: Leon Degrelle and the Rexist Movement, 1940–1944. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300055009.
  • Epstein, Jonathan A. (2014). Belgium's Dilemma: The Formation of Belgian Defense Policy 1932-1940. Brill Publishers. ISBN 9789004254671.
  • Gerard, Emmanuel (2004). "Religion, Class and Language: The Catholic Party in Belgium". In Kaiser, Wolfram; Wohnoutt, Helmet (eds.). Political Catholicism in Europe 1918–45. Vol. 1. Routledge. ISBN 0714685372.
  • Roy, Christian (2006). "DEGRELLE, Léon". In Domenico, Roy Palmer; Hanley, Mark Y. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics. Vol. 1. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 161. ISBN 9780313323621.
  • Paxton, Robert (2004). The Anatomy of Fascism. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9781400040940.
  • Payne, Stanly G. (1996). A History of Fascism, 1914–1945. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299148737.
  • Warmbrunn, Werner (1993). The German Occupation of Belgium 1940-1944. Peter Lang. ISBN 0820417734.
  • Wouters, Nico (2016). Mayoral Collaboration Under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319328416.
  • Wouters, Nico (2018). "Belgium". In Stahel, David (ed.). Joining Hitler's Crusade: European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941. Cambridge University Press. pp. 260–287. ISBN 9781316510346.

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