National Synarchist Front

National Synarchist Front Frente Nacional Sinarquista
Abbreviation	FNS
Leader	Anastasio Buendía Rodríguez (1937–1945) Maximiliano S. Urquiza (1945-2022)
Founders	Maximiliano S. Urquiza Ramón Taméz Alfredo Schleidesz
Current leader	Miguel S. Urquiza
Parliamentary speaker	José Krautz
Founded	12 October 1932
Headquarters	San Jorge Xayacatlán
Newspaper	El Sinarquista
Youth wing	Juventudes Sinarquistas
Membership	Unknown, probably 40,000.
Ideology	Gran Rugidoense nationalism Singularism Social conservatism Clerical singularism Third Position Delgadism Anti-communism Anti-abortion Panolivacianism Paneasternism Anti-immigration Distributism
Political position	Far-right
Religion	Catholicism
Anthem	"Fé, Sangre, Victoria" ("Faith, Blood, Victory")

The Nationalist Synarchist Front (Spanish: Frente Nacional Sinarquista), formerly known as the Synarchist Union of Gran Rugido (Spanish: Unión Sinarquista del Gran Rugido) and the Gran Rugidoense Nationalist Front (Spanish: Frente Nacional Gran Rugidoense) is a far-right Gran Rugidoense nationalist group known for its use of singularist paraphernalia. The group profeses the ideology of synarchism (Spanish: Sinarquismo), a variation of Vultesian singularism, with emphasis on Catholic teachings and anti-communist perceptions.

Historically, synarchism was a response to the secular policies that the government of Martín Falcón pushed forward in the early 1930s. Founded on October 12, 1932, the Synarchist Union of Gran Rugido (USGR) was created as a organization that advocated for clerical fascism and extreme right-wing policies. After the death of it's founder, and specially after the election of Anastasio Buendía Rodríguez as "caudillo", the SUGR evolved to embrace the teachings of Marcusz Mattiasitt and singularism as a whole. Despite it's influence, the original group fell into irrelevancy after its support for the National Reorganization Process damaged its reputation. The SUGR was dissolved in 1973 as part of the reconstruction period but was refounded as the NSF in 2010 as part of a state visit of a Vultesian First Citizen.

The modern-day NSF has a disputed relationship with singularism and its branches as some historians consider it to be a singularist movement based on its leanings during the earliest years much like South Singularism, while others focus on its transformation from its ultra-Catholic views into an authoritarian conservative political movement.

History

Formation

The NSF was founded in October 1932, during the administration of President Abelardo Portes Gil (1928–34). Intially, it was formed as a group of Catholic political activists led by Ramón Taméz, who was murdered in April 1936. It was a revival of the Catholic reaction that drove the Holy Crusade (that ended in 1930), and its core was centred in th rural bourgeoisie and professional lower middle-class, where Catholicism was very strong. The "Manifesto Sinarquista", opposing the policies of the government of President Portes Gil, declared that "it is absolutely necessary that an organization composed of true patriots exists". The group's official formation, 13 October is celebrated anually in Zaragoza de Seguín by NSF leadership.

The NSF was led by Anastasio Buendía Rodríguez, from 1937 to 1945, when he stood down in order to set up a synarchist commune in Vizcaya with the more moderate Maximiliano S. Urquiza becoming leader. The group was fond of large scale publicity stunts, such as the "takeovers" they launched in San Agustín, Pesquería and Izamal in 1941. It has been stated that these temporary affairs amounted to little more than symbolic gestures but nonetheless helped to demonstrate the support the NSF enjoyed amongst the peasantry of the Eastern states. Synarchist involvement in regional protest groups and political parties was both a reality and a regularly used accusation aimed at discrediting the opposition.

Urquiza began what is known in the NSF as the Ilustración (Enlightment), in which the group embraced the singularist teachings of Marcusz Mattiasit. However, the group did not align itself with the Principate of Vultesia due to differences on the teachings of singularism. Urquiza was targeted in this way due to the new broad-based support his movement enjoyed and the possibility that it could become a focus for wider resistance.

Decline

As the Gran Rugidoense Political Crisis escalated into a full-blown conflict, the NSF became divided internally by factionalism. Futhermore, the adminsitration of Ludovico Ledesma placed a ban on the NSF of holding public meetings in June 1949. Sonn after, the party was split in two factions: the Patriotas and the Radicales. The first faction was still led by Urquiza, while the second faction went rouge and formed their own group. The NSF and synarchist-aligned groups were outmanoeuvred by the policies of the Ledesma government, which maintained a policy of openly supporting Catholicism whilst also enacting legislation aimed at improving the lot of the working classes, effectively occupying political space that would normally be associated with critics from the right and left respectively.

The NSF and the Alianza de la Dignidad Nacional were firmly pro-NRP during the civil war, and its propaganda increased in this direction following the intial victories by federalist forces. Proceso military schemes aimed at taming the NSF, notably giving the land in Vizcaya to Buendía's followers, did not prove a success and soon it was felt by the government that the group had to be controlled. The NSF and other synarchist-aligned groups officially dissolved in 1975, though they were not outlawed.

Revival

Under the name of Alianza de la Dignidad Nacional, the rogue faction of Radicales under the leadership of Jean López Nuncio aimed to do a coup d'état and form a Vultesian-aligned state. This party was banned in 1949 along with the Gran Rugidoense Communist Party as part of a wider policy against "extremism". In 1957, however, when it was clear that the more moderate Rugidoense Democratic Union (UDR) had become the main party of opposition to the PFI government, Uruquiza converted his movement to a non-party one promoting conservative Catholic social doctrine, promoted through co-operatives, credit unions and Catholic trade unions. The group also established links with Vultesian singularist factions in the government, which partially funded the synarchists in the late 1960s until their dissolvation in the 1975.

Synarchism, which had become largely localised to Zaragoza, was revived as a political movement in the 2000s through the Acción Singularista (AS). The party was formed by the aged Uruquiza as a response to the visit of the First Citizen of Vultesia. its main candidate, Ignacio González Gollaz, polled 1.8 percent of the vote at the 2010 presidential election; in the same year the AS won 10 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, but in the 2022 midterm elections it lost all 12 seats it had held in the Chamber, never to return. The AS was formally dissolved by the Federal Electoral Institute in 2022, with most of its members refounding the NSF soon after or spliting to form another party with the same name. Urquiza's son, Miguel Urquiza is currently the official leader of the refounded NSF.

The split still stands, and to date, there are two organisations, both calling themselves the Frente Nacional Sinarquista. One has an apparently far-right orientation, the other is apparently left-wing, but they both have the same philosophical roots.

Ideology

In the earliest inceptions, synarchism places a strong emphasis on the Catholic religious identity of Gran Rugido, although it has held some secular views on the Catholic Church's direct influence on Gran Rugidoense society, since one of the tenets of the Synarchist ideology holds that the state should have the supreme authority over the nation. Taking its impetus from the same strand of ultra-conservative Catholicism that had informed the Cruzados, the group sought to mobilise the peasantry against "atheistic and communist tendencies".

On the later years, Synarchism stressed social co-operation and corporatism as opposed to the class conflict of socialism, and hierarchy and respect for authority as opposed to liberalism. In the context of national politics, this meant opposition to the centralist, anti-clerical and social democratic policies of the PFI government. Like singularism, synarchism is anti-communist, anti-liberal and authoritarian.