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Initially Cumann na nGaedheal had been popular as the party that had established the state, but by 1932, their economic conservatism and continued repression of anti-Treaty Republicans was becoming unpopular.

Fianna Fáil won the 1932 election on a programme of developing Irish industry, creating jobs, providing more social services and cutting the remaining links with the British Empire.

In 1932, Fianna Fáil entered government in coalition with the Labour Party, but a year later they won an absolute majority.

They would be in government without interruption until 1948 and for much of the rest of the 20th century.