Purified National Party

A hardline faction of Afrikaner nationalists, led by D. F. Malan, strongly opposed the merger.

Malan and 19 other MPs defected to form the Purified National Party, which he led for the next fourteen years in opposition.

Their Federale Raad (Federal Council) met in Bloemfontein to work out their own political program on 5 July 1935.

[1] In 1939 the question of South African participation in World War II caused a split in the United Party.

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