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| - The Union of National Solidarists was founded in December 2010, just a few weeks before the federal elections started. The break-away party found its origins as a pressure group within the Iron Guard Party. IGP politician Marc Thomassen advocated for a more democratic and popular strategy but bumped onto the party leadership. He gained support after the scandal following the trial against the IGP. Thomassen and other people dissatisfied with the course of things created a faction inside the party, called the Union for New Solidarity (UNS). Believing that this would be sufficient to make the top see its mistakes, Thomassen declared the following: They behave as if they are the center of all creation, always glorifying themselves. With their heads that far up each other's asses, how could they be capable of defending the true needs of the people? You may label them 'fascist' or 'nationalist' but they just look as a bunch of underaged college anarchists to me: unorganized and in no way aware of reality. Hoping that the program of 'new solidarity' could turn the IGP away from its fascist affiliations and gain support from more moderate voters, the UNS wanted to endorse Thomassen as chairman in the next elections. It never came that far because the IGP was shut down by court order. With the old party ruled out and its elite behind bars, all noses turned into Thomassen's direction. He started organizing friendly forces around his person and officially announced plans for a new party in September 2010. The abbreviation 'UNS' now stood for 'Union of National Solidarists' as the new party program was presented in December 2010. The party's first MOTC was I. G. La Blaca, one of nine MOTCs who served in the 2011 Provisional Congress. He set a standard for moderate nationalism, and led the UNS to a surprising victory in the 2011 Special Federal Elections, where they won seven seats out of one hundred. Many of the former IGP members who became MOTCs for the party served in absentia as they were still jailed following the The People v. IGP Trial. The Lovian Civil War, despite originally increasing the power and the popularity of the UNS, eventually delivered a near-mortal blow to the party. After the defeat of the rebels, which the UNS supported, two of the seven MOTCs that the UNS were dead and three more were jailed. The UNS's popularity descended to a record low. After the 2012 Federal Elections, the UNS suffered a devastating defeat, winning zero seats. Following this, on February 5, 2012, Marc Thomassen and the remaining members decided to dissolve the party. It is believed that most people migrated to either the Conservative Christian Party of Lovia or the Conservative Nationalist Party. The party was reactivated by Thomassen on April 1st, 2015. He declared the necessity for a 'strong force to guide Lovia through the storm' and announced the UNS would be standing in the 2015 elections. It won one seat in the 2015 Congress.
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