National Party (RRG)

The National Party was a Riograndense right-wing political party that ruled the First Republic from the dissolution of its predecessor, the Farroupilha Party until the 1851 coup that ended the regime. Being one of the two successors of the Farroupilha Party, the National Party was founded as the country's first conservative party. The party's support came from the wealthy landowner class that was disproportionately represented in the census suffrage system, leading to resentment of the liberal Radical Party and the liberal military coup that put an end to the First Republic. In the aftermath of the coup, the National Party was dissolved, although its members would soon reorganize themselves into various parties that differed on their approval or rejection of the changes introduced by the Radical Constitution in 1851.