The second stage involved the establishment of the RPP at the centre of what
was, essentially, a one-party system. This was greatly assisted by the law for the
maintenance of order passed at the beginning of the Kurdish and religious
revolt of 1925, which was used to prevent all political activity outside the party
itself. It was followed, in the early 1930s, by more positive steps to turn the RPP
into a national organization with an elite membership and an ideology. The
former allowed the party to dominate the two-stage election system so as to
ensure that it always had huge majorities in the Assembly. As for the ideology,
this was provided by the six principles of Kemalism introduced in May 1931 –
republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, secularism and something that
can be translated as either permanent revolutionism or reformism