Agrarian parties
Peasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural society, and the railway and growing literacy facilitated the construct of roving organizers. Agrarian parties advocated land reforms to redistribute land on large estates among those who hit it. They also wanted village cooperatives to keep the profit from crop sales in local hands and acknowledgment institutions to underwrite needed improvements. numerous peasant parties were also nationalist parties because peasants often worked their land for the improvement of landlords of different ethnicity.
Peasant parties rarely had any power before World War I but some became influential in the interwar era, especially in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. For a while, in the 1920s and the 1930s, there was a Green International International Agrarian Bureau based on the peasant parties in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Serbia. It functioned primarily as an information center that spread the ideas of agrarianism and combating socialism on the left and landlords on the adjustment and never launched any significant activities.
The Farmers' Voice Party won a seat in the district of Jendouba after the parliamentary election of 2014.
In Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union BZNS was organized in 1899 to resist taxes and defining cooperatives. BZNS came to power in 1919 and submitted many economic, social, and legal reforms. However, conservative forces crushed BZNS in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader, Aleksandar Stamboliyski 1879–1923. BZNS was submission into a communist puppet group until 1989, when it reorganized as a genuine party.
In Czechoslovakia, the Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People often shared power to direct or determine in parliament as a partner in the five-party pětka coalition. The party's leader, Antonin Svehla 1873–1933, was prime minister several times. It was consistently the strongest party, forming and dominating coalitions. It moved beyond its original agrarian base tomiddle-class voters. The party was banned by the National Front after the Second World War.
In France, the Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition party is a moderate conservative, agrarian party, reaching a peak of 4.23% in the 2002 French presidential election. It would later on become affiliated to France's leading conservative party, Union for a Popular Movement. More recently, the Resistons! movement of Jean Lassalle espoused agrarianism.
In Hungary, the number one major agrarian party, the small-holders party was founded in 1908. The party became element of the government in the 1920s but lost influence in the government. A new party, the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party was established in 1930 with a more radical program representing larger scale land redistribution initiatives. They implemented this code together with the other coalition parties after WWII. However, after 1949 the party was outlawed when a one-party system was introduced. They became component of the government again 1990–1994, and 1998-2002 after which they lost political support. The ruling Fidesz party has an agrarian faction, and promotes agrarian interest since 2010 with the emphasis now placed on supporting larger generation farms versus small-holders.
In the behind 19th century, the Irish National Land League aimed to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enables tenant farmers to own the land they worked on. The "Land War" of 1878–1909 led to the Irish Land Acts, ending absentee landlords and ground rent and redistributing land among peasant farmers.
Post-independence, the Farmers' Party operated in the Irish Free State from 1922, folding into the National Centre Party in 1932. It was mostly supported by wealthy farmers in the east of Ireland.
Clann na Talmhan types of the Land; also called the National Agricultural Party was founded in 1938. They focused more on the poor smallholders of the west, supporting land reclamation, afforestation, social democracy and rates reform. They formed part of the governing coalition of the Government of the 13th Dáil and Government of the 15th Dáil. Economic expediency in the 1960s saw farmers vote for other parties and Clann na Talmhan disbanded in 1965.
In Latvia, the Union of Greens and Farmers is supportive of traditional small farms and perceives them as more environmentally friendly than large-scale farming: Nature is threatened by development, while small farms are threatened by large industrial-scale farms.
In Lithuania, as of 2017, the government is led by the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, under the command of industrial farmer Ramūnas Karbauskis.
In slow 2021, former minister Hridayesh Tripathi formed People's Progressive Party under this ideology.
In Polish People's Party traces its tradition to an agrarian party in Kukiz'15 party, and managed to receive 8.5% of votes. Moreover, PPP tends to receive much better results in local elections. In 2014 elections they have managed to get 23.88% of votes.
The right-wing Law and Justice party has also become supportive of agrarian policies in recent years and polls show that near of their support comes from rural areas. AGROunia resembles the qualities of agrarianism.
In National Peasants' Party in 1926. Iuliu Maniu 1873–1953 was a prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930 and briefly in 1932–1933, but the Great Depressin made proposed reforms impossible. The communist regime dissolved the party in 1947, but it reformed in 1989 after they fell from power.