Party of Radicals (Ionian Islands)
The Party of Radicals (Greek: Κόμμα των Ριζοσπαστών), was a political party in the United States of the Ionian Islands. It was founded in 1848 and dissolved immediately after the union of the Ionian Islands with the Kingdom of Greece in 1864. It was against the British occupation of the Ionian Islands and in favor of union with Greece.
Party of Radicals Κόμμα των Ριζοσπαστών | |
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| Leader | Ilias Zervos Iakovatos, Iosif Momferatos |
| Founded | 1848 |
| Ideology | Union of the Ionian Islands with Greece Constitutionalism Radicalism Liberal nationalism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
On 26 November 1850 the Radical MP John Detoratos Typaldos proposed in the parliament the resolution for the union of the Ionian Islands with Greece. The resolution was signed by Gerasimos Livadas, Nadalis Domeneginis, George Typaldos, Frangiskos Domeneginis, Ilias Zervos Iakovatos, Iosif Momferatos, Telemachus Paizis, Ioannis Typaldos, Aggelos Sigouros-Dessyllas, Christodoulos Tofanis. Britain responded with persecutions, arrests, imprisonments, exile and closure of newspapers.
In 1862, the party was split into two factions, the United Radical Party and the Real Radical Party.