Ion Mihalache was a Romanian agrarian politician who founded the Peasants' Party in 1918 and led it as well as its successor, the National Peasants' Party. He served as a schoolteacher and lieutenant in the Romanian army. As a politician, Mihalache supported preserving Romania's rural economic base through voluntary farming cooperatives while allowing for some peasant-based industry, taking a left-wing corporatist position. He believed large-scale agricultural enterprises were not necessary for economic success and that dividing land did not necessarily decrease production.

1. ION MIHALACHE
IORDACHE ANDREEA-DANIELA, GRUPA 8103
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest
Keywords:Politician,Traditionalist,Agricultural.
• Ion Mihalache (Romanian pronunciation: March 3, 1882 – February 5, 1963) was
a Romanian agrarian politician, the founder and leader of the Peasants' Party
(PȚ) and a main figure of its successor, the National Peasants' Party (PNȚ). A
schoolteacher born into a peasant family of Topoloveni, he served as a
lieutenant in the Romanian Army during World War I. Mihalache, who soon
became popular among Orthodox priests and village teachers, served as
president of the local teachers' association. He founded the PȚ in the Romanian
Old Kingdom in 1918; under his leadership, it emerged from northern Muntenia
and became a grouping with national appeal. The PȚ had much success in the
elections of November 1919, forming a coalition government with the
Transylvanian Romanian National Party (PNR), under Alexandru Vaida-Voevod.
As a politician, Mihalache made himself known for supporting a political option
that mixed traditionalist reserve towards industrialization and calls for
preserving the rural base of Romanian economy through voluntary cooperative
farming (allowing for a peasant-based industry) with a vision of left-wing
Corporatism. In 1929, he wrote: Many have thought that [economic success]
was only possible for the large-scale agricultural entrepreneur. And this is why
they have supported that only on the basis of large-scale property can there be
carried out a wise and lucrative agriculture, and that dividing the land leads to a
decrease in production.
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