Legacy
The Peasant Party's legacy was soon claimed by splinter groups of the PNŢ, all of which situated themselves more to the left than the latter: in early 1927, Nicolae L. Lupu formed a new Peasants' Party; Stere left the PNŢ following an inner-party clash, and founded the Democratic Peasants' Party which later merged with another dissident faction, Grigore Iunian's Radical Peasants' Party. Democratic Peasants' Party was also the name taken by a post-World War II group led by Lupu as a new dissidence (after he had rejoined the PNŢ); it was favorable to a collaboration with the Soviet Union, and adhered to alliances formed around the Romanian Communist Party.
A more left-wing tendency linked with the Peasants' Party tradition remained present and distinct within the PNŢ. It was represented by, among others, Ernest Ene, Mihail Ghelmegeanu, Petre Andrei, and Armand Călinescu.
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