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Parliamentary Elections on December 1937 in Oltenia County* PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ON DECEMBER 1937 IN OLTENIA COUNTY* DianaMihaela PĂUNOIU “C.S.NicolăescuPlopor” Institute for Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, Craiova [email protected] Abstract: In this paper we present two principal issues. In first part of the paper, we present the election campaign realized by local organizations of the main Romanian parties engaged in competition, the focus being on the actions of Legionary Movement. The sources used for documentation are, especially, confidential reports and bulletins elaborated in that period by the Regional Inspectorate of Gendarmes Craiova. In the second part of the paper, we present the results of the Parliament election, the accent being set on the options of the Oltenian electorate. Thru this paper, we want to integrate the political local events in the national history and to fill a blank space in the speciality literature. Keywords: Parliamentary elections, Oltenia, Romanian electorate, political parties. On 1937 Romanian democracy was in full process of degradation. That situation reflected, mainly, the result of King’s Carol II actions and his collaborators, actions started on 1930 and pursued in the following period. Between 1930 and 1937, on Romania political scene, major movement took place. This way, in interior of major democratic political parties – National- Liberal Party and National-Peasant Party – tensions and repeated ruptures appeared, and their attempts to oppose King’s authoritative plans had, especially after 1934, just a formal character, with no results. Prodictatorial political parties, especially Legionary Movement (represented from 1935 by political formation “Totul pentru łară” – All for the Fatherland), knew a considerable ascension, phenomenon partially allowed by the King itself (the rupture between the King and the legionaries took place on January 1937), who wanted to create a favourable climate to install a personal regime. The executive power grew against the legislative power, especially because Gheorghe Tătărescu’s liberal government (January 4, 1934 – November 17, 1937) was receptive to King’s * The study represents part of the doctoral research named „Royal Residency of Olt County (1938-1940)”, in progress in Craiova University, Faculty of Socio-Human Science, History Department, thru Project POSDRU/6/1.5/S/14 - „Improving the attractiveness, quality and efficiency of university studies by offering doctoral scholarship”. 197 Carol II plans to undermine Romanian democracy and becoming a quasi- personal cabinet of the King1. Therefore, in seven years King’s politics obtain major successes, getting close more and more to fulfilling his objectives. Probably the most important movement was de facto increase of the monarchy in the state, because of exceeding by the King of prerogatives given by the Constitution. One proof in this sense is the way of solving the problem of government succession, by forming a new Tătărescu government (November 17 – December 29, 1937) who represented the will of the King2. In theory, the main task of this government was to organize new parliament elections, but the program announced in the day of taking the oath was a perspective one, betraying the protagonist’s intention of turning it into a long term one. On November 20, 1937, by royal decree the Parliament was dissolved, and the electoral core was convened for election of the Deputy Assembly on December 20 and the Senate on December 2328 19373. Starting with the 2nd half of November until the end of December, in Romanian political life the main issue was the competition between political parties to obtain the power. The 1937 elections “give the opportunity of a powerful trial of democracy and totalitarianism forces”4. On King’s sugestion, who wanted to ensure the Guvernment success in elections, the president of Ministerial Council, Gheorghe Tătărescu, concluded, in the name of National- Liberal Party, electoral deals with National-Democrat Party (Nicolae Iorga), Romanian Front (Alexandru Vaida Voievod) and The German Party, the last two known for their antidemocratic position. On the other side, Iuliu Maniu, president of National-Peasant Party, engaged into an open fight against King’s Carol the 2nd manoeuvres and, in November 25, he made a nonaggression pact with National Liberal “Georgist” Party (Gheorghe I. Brătianu) and the Legionary 1 Cristophe Midan, Carol al II-lea şi teroarea istoriei 1930-1940, Romanian version by Daniela CodruŃa Midan, Bucureşti, Editura Militară, 2008, p. 18; Ioan Scurtu, Istoria Românilor în timpul celor patru regi (1866-1947), IIIst vol., Carol al II-lea, Bucureşti, Editura Enciclopedică, 2001, pp. 175-177, 182; Istoria Românilor, VIIIst vol., România întregită (1918-1940), Ioan Scurtu (coordinator), secretary: Petre Otu, Bucureşti, Editura Enciclopedică, 2003, pp. 329-336, 338-362, 368. 2 See Apostol Stan, Ion Mihalache. Destinul unei vieŃi, Bucureşti, Editura Saeculum I.O., 1999, pp. 242-243; Ioan Scurtu, Gheorghe Buzatu, Istoria românilor în secolul XX (1918-1947), Bucureşti, Editura Paideia, 1999, pp. 329-330; Armand Călinescu, Însemnări politice 1916-1939, edition published by Al. Gh. Savu, Bucureşti, Humanitas, 1990, pp. 357-358. 3 Mircea Muşat, Ion Ardeleanu, România după Marea Unire, IIst vol., 2nd part, noiembrie 1933 – septembrie 1940, Bucureşti, Editura ŞtiinŃifică şi Enciclopedică, 1988, p. 724. 4 Keith Hitchins, România 1866-1947, translation from English by George G. Potra and Delia Răzdolescu, Bucureşti, Humanitas, 1996, p. 446. 198 Movement – Everything for the Country (Corneliu Zelea Codreanu). At this pact adhered also Constantin Argetoianu, president of Agrarian Party5. The nonaggression pact represented, in initiator’s opinion, “a deal with the purpose of defending and protect the liberty and fairness of the elections. (…) it means removing violent and denigration actions and language; it does not stops affirmation of own ideology and good faith discussion”6. It will be valid only until the end of the elections, the base of the pact being just “the idea for saving the national dignity, ensuring the free and legal affirmation of her voice and discomfiture of eventual attempts to falsify the national will (D.P. underlying.)”7. Iuliu Maniu has motivated the electoral agreement from 1937 in the following manner: Making this agreement was necessary because of the electoral practise used by so called liberal party. All elections organized by the liberal Party have been characterized by corruption, by terror, by the interfering of state’s forces and by physical-moral violent acts. (...) The actual government is an arbitrary one, who has falsified the national will, a King’s personal government and nothing characterized better this circumstance like the fact that parties with opposed ideologies united to fight against the common danger that threatens the country (...)8. Therefore, is desired to ensure, trough this pact, the freedom of parliament elections and put a barrier to King’s dictatorial ambitions. But this has incite to controversy and confusion in the ranks of members of the political parties the sign it, and, especially, in the ranks of electorate. In fact, the nonaggression pact and the political cartels mentioned above have been pretty unrealistic and did not broth the wanted results. The Legionnaire Movement was the most advantaged the deal with the “Georgist” liberals and the national-peasant has given them an extra credibility and respectability in the ranks of population with right to vote. The parliament elections in the year 1937 have represented a culmination point in Romanian political life. They offered King Carol II the possibility to speculate the situation created by not obtaining the electorate majority by the ruling party9 (National Liberal Party - Dinu Brătianu) for giving the task of 5 Ioan Scurtu, cited work, pp. 211-212. 6 Iuliu Maniu, Testament moral politic, Edition by Victor Isac, Bucureşti, “Gândirea românească” Publishing House, 1991, p. 185. 7 Ibid, p. 183. 8 Ibid, p. 186. 9 Results of parliament elections from December 20 have been: National Liberal Party (Dinu Bratianu) obtained 35,92% from expressed votes (152 mandates in Deputy Chamber); National Peasant Party, 20,4% (86 mandates); Everything for the Country, 15,58% (66 mandates), National Christian Party, 9,15% (39 mandates); Hungarian Party, 4,43% (19 mandates); National Liberal Party – Gheorghe Brătianu, 3,89% (16 mandates); Peasant Radical Party, 2,25% (9 mandates), Rest of the votes going to other 199 forming the government to a party with no authority and without the majority in Parliament, the National Christian Party, and as a extension consequence of the parliament elections, the King could pose, on February 11, 1938, in posture of “saviour” of the country. Under this shield he had accomplished the most important objective, pursued perseveringly for seven years, respectively: installing a personal regime, royal dictatorship, with multiple consequences in Romanian’s history. Starting from these arguments, our opinion is that the analysis of the political and social situation in Oltenia County created by the 1937 parliament elections is more then welcome mainly because have not been, yet, studied by the specialists. For knowing and analysing the sociopolitical events that took place in Oltenia County on November – December 1937 very important are the documents kept in local archives, some of them being confidential reports made by the Regional Inspectorate of Gendarmerie from Craiova10, and
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