Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61
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« on: November 14, 2009, 02:20:08 AM » |
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« edited: November 15, 2009, 04:40:39 PM by Хahar »
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I swear, I've been working on this for a while. Voting in this country is by closed-list PR.
Communist: The Communist Party is traditionally the main left-wing opposition, though it has in recent years forfeited this title. Historically, the Communists have been backed by the trade unions, but this ended in 1993, when the unions left to form the Labour Party, which later became part of the new Socialist Party. The split in the party was the culmination of a long-term divide in the party, wherein successive leaders veered widely between slavish obedience to and oustpoken condemnation of Moscow. With the unions gone, the party has become the province of its old student and intellectual elements. In 1996, the Green Left, a group of left-wing members of the old Green Party, joined the Communists. The Communist Party has only been part of the Government once, during World War II. It generally polls between 5 and 10 percent.
Socialist: The Socialist Party is the result of the 1996 merger of the Labour Party (a Communist splinter), the Green Party, and the old Socialist Party. Throughout the nation's history, it has been overshadowed by its left-wing rival, the Communist Party, but it has been the primary left-wing party since the merger. They are one of the Liberals' preferred coalition partners, along with the Conservatives. Currently, it forms the main opposition group in Parliament. It generally polls between 15 and 20 percent.
Liberal: The Liberal Party has held the Prime Ministership and the Presidency continuously since the introduction of democracy in 1930. It represents the vast mass of the people, enjoying particular support among farmers and the middle class. Despite its name, the party's ideology, so far as it has one, is Christian democracy. The party has only come close to losing power once, in the parliamentary rebellion of 1981. In recent years, with the Socialist Party's overtaking of the Communists, the prospect of a non-Liberal government has become a frequent topic of discussion in the media, although it remains remote. The Liberals are currently the senior partner in a coalition with the Conservatives. The party generally polls between 45 and 55 percent.
Conservative: The Conservative Party is the party of the urban wealthy. It orginally represented the old, pre-democratic order, and was expected to win the first election in 1930. After its unexpected loss to the Liberals, the party went into decline, and soon reached its current state. At times, its position as a right-wing party apart from both the Liberals and the Nationalists has been called into question, and the party has as a result been subject to frequent ideological change, most notably when it veered well to the left of the Liberals in the late 1970s under Horatio Vega. Nevertheless, the Conservatives have always been able to survive. The party is currently the junior partner in a coalition with the Liberals. It generally polls between 10 and 15 percent.
Nationalist: The Nationalist Party originated in a 1935 split in the Conservative Party, resulting in the more aristocratic wing leaving. Up to and during the war, the Nationalists marked themselves as the only anticommunist opposition, but the party remained little more than a bastion of Whiggery until the mid-1960s, when Douglas Shea became leader. Shea transformed the party into a right-wing mass party, courting the disaffected in the same way as the Communists. As a result, the Nationalist vote grew massively. In 1981, Shea prevented the Socialist and Conservative parliamentary rebellion from succeeding, but was assassinated on the campaign trail at the ensuing election. Although the Nationalists received their largest-ever vote, infighting crippled the party and prevented it from supplanting the Conservatives. Alone among the parliamentary parties, the Nationalist Party has never served in government. It generally polls between 10 and 15 percent.
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