Social Credit Party (Akashi)

Social Credit Party 社会信用党 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 𐌹𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻ᚴ𐌾𐍉
Abbreviation	SCP
Founded	1935
Dissolved	1998
Merged into	Communist Party
Ideology	Social credit
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Crimson bloc
Colours	Light green
Politics of Akashi Political parties

The Social Credit Party (Miranian: 社会信用党 Shakai shin'yōtō; Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 𐌹𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻ᚴ𐌾𐍉 Gamains Inmaideins Dailkjō) was a social credit political party in Akashi.

Established in 1935 as an outgrowth of the Tyranian social credit movement, it was one of the few parties predating the Akashian Civil War to continue its existence afterwards. For most of its existence, it was a minor left-wing party, and developed a close collaboration with the Communist Party. This culminated in the two parties' merger in 1998.

History

The SCP was founded in 1935, as an outgrowth of the broader Tyranian social credit movement, inspired by the theories of Schottian engineer C. H. Douglas. It proved to be one of the longest-lasting social credit parties of Tyran.

From the beginning, it allied with the Akashian left, standing against the right and its later collaboration with the Futurist Political Party. It had a negligible role in the Akashian Civil War, and was largely "in hibernation" during it.

In the Constituent Assembly election of 1940, it won 3% of the party vote and 3 party seats, making it the smallest party represented. Nevertheless, membership was encouraged by the fact that it even entered the Constituent Assembly to begin with.

The party languished on the sidelines during the Yurikaran era. It was the smallest party in the National Assembly in 1942 and 1946, and then fell beneath the electoral threshold in 1950, spending the rest of the decade shut out of the National Assembly.

The SCP took part in the United Opposition electoral alliance of 1962, which ended in animosity but earned the party 11 seats, its best ever performance. It lost all its seats in 1966.

The passage of reforms to "open up the system" and the decimation of the National Union opened some space for the party to grow, although it lagged far behind the rest of the crimson bloc. Its best individual performance, in 1974, still yielded only 5 seats in total. It provided outside support for Socialist Party-led coalitions, but was never seriously considered to join them.

It was in opposition to the Ran Tsukuda government during the 1980s. The "blue wave" of 1986 knocked the party out of the National Assembly once again, as it fell beneath the electoral threshold of 3%. It regained its 7 seats in the "red wave" of 1990, and formally joined Shinobu Furukawa's coalition.

By this point, the SCP had developed close ties with the CP, and its consistent and stagnant support demoralised party members who began to question its raison d'être. These doubts were amplified in 1994, when it once again fell short of the electoral threshold, but managed to win one constituency seat for the only time.

Ultimately, the SCP voted to merge with the CP in 1998.

Platform

The SCP was a social credit party. It advocated monetary reform, the construction of economic democracy through democratic control of credit, and the imposition of price controls and social dividends.

Described by Keizai Shinbun as "the mildest of the crimson parties", the SCP's policy proved largely compatible with the aspirations of the Communists to abolish capitalism. During the 1970s, it gained a reputation as a vehicle for various left-leaning monetary reform advocates, including left-wing market anarchists, Georgists, and community-based economics.

The party's headquarters was jokingly dubbed "Megelan's second embassy", since many in the SCP looked to Megelan as a model for economic organisation, and generally advocated closer relations between Akashi and Megelan within the Common Sphere.

Election results

National Assembly

Election	Party list		Constituency		Seats	+/–	Status
	PR votes	%	STV votes	%
1940	49.235	3,0%			3 / 245	3	Opposition
1942	52.833	3,0%			6 / 200	3	Opposition
1946	58.699	2,8%			6 / 200		Opposition
1950	52.529	2,2%			0 / 200	6	No seats
1954	57.938	2,0%			0 / 200		No seats
1958	52.565	1,6%			0 / 200		No seats
19621	1.227.100	32,5%			11 / 200	11	Opposition
1966	81.975	2,0%			0 / 200	11	No seats
1970	143.653	3,0%	57.526	1,2%	3 / 200	3	Opposition
1972	200.231	4,0%	84.908	1,7%	4 / 200	1	Outside support
1974	258.224	5,0%	77.205	1,5%	5 / 200	1	Outside support
1978	243.676	4,4%	89.006	1,6%	4 / 200	1	Outside support
1980	180.533	3,2%	78.808	1,4%	3 / 200	1	Interim
1982	201.880	3,5%	103.598	1,8%	7 / 400	4	Opposition
1986	142.797	2,4%	119.129	2,0%	0 / 400	7	No seats
1990	201.653	3,2%	188.842	3,0%	7 / 400	7	Coalition
1994	172.991	2,7%	255.133	4,0%	1 / 400	6	Coalition

¹ Result for the whole United Opposition, consisting of the Socialist Party, Liberal Party, National Democratic Party, Communist Party, Workers' Party, and SCP.

Presidency

Election	Candidate	First round		Second round		Result
		Votes	%	Votes	%
1940	No candidate
1945	No candidate
1950	No candidate
1955	No candidate
1960	No candidate
1965	No candidate
1970	No candidate
1975	No candidate
1980	No candidate
1985	No candidate
1990	Naoki Shiba	172.181	2,8%			Lost
1995	No candidate

Provincial assemblies

Main article: List of Akashian provincial elections

Prefectural assemblies

Main article: List of Akashian prefectural elections