 He also attacked the government's stewardship of the economy, and was largely responsible for drafting Fianna Fáil's economic programme.In 1932, Fianna Fáil won power in the Free State, remaining in government for 16 uninterrupted years.The party which Lemass had described as only a "slightly constitutional party" in 1929 was now leading the Irish Free State, a state that de Valera and Lemass had fought a civil war to destroy a decade earlier.