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TheChristian National Union was a political party inLatvia in the inter-war period.
The party was established in 1920,[1] and won three seats in the1920 Constitutional Assembly elections.[2] It went on to win four seats in the1st Saeima after the1922 elections, but was reduced to two seats in the2nd Saeima after the1925 elections. It won four seats again in the1928 elections, but only three in the4th Saeimaelections of 1931.
The party advocatedLutheranism as the basis for governance and also supportedprohibition.[1] The CNU had a similar profile to the nationalistNational Union.[3] The party leaderGustavs Reinhards [lv] wrote anti-Semitic articles for the official newspaperTautas Balss [lv].[4][5] It usually sat in theSaeima alongside the National Union, theParty for Peace and Order and someLatgalian parties, in a grouping known as the "National Bloc".[6]
