Catholic Labour Party (Sainte-Chloé)

Parti Catholique des Travailleurs
Abbreviation	PCT
President	Michel Thiele
Premier	Genevieve Chevallier
Party Chair	Henri Verlois
Founder	Raymond Rivière and Camille Pétain
Founded	17 April 1953
Merger of	Catholic Party and Labour Party
Newspaper	Christus Vincit La Croix (affiliated)
Student wing	Catholic Labour Students
Youth wing	Catholic Youth
Membership (2020)	942,921
Ideology	Sotirian Democracy Social Conservativism Trade Unionism Corporatism Catholic social teaching
Political position	Centre-right (From Centre to Right)
Religion	Solarian Catholic Church
Colours	Blue
Slogan	"Dieu, Patrie, Travail" (God, Fatherland, Labour)
Chamber of Commons	105 / 171
Senate	20 / 65
Provincial Governments	381 / 643
Political parties

The Catholic Labour Party (Gaullican: Parti Catholique des Travailleurs), often abbreviated as the PCT, is a centre-right political party in Sainte-Chloé. It is one of Sainte-Chloé's two major parties alongside with its rival, the Social Democratic Party.

Founded in 1953 in a merger between the Catholic Party and Labour Party by Raymond Rivière and Camille Pétain, it was founded to form a united front against the control of the Democratic Party over the United Provinces, and to advocate for the creation of a centralized Republic in place of the federal model originally designed to also contain Imagua and the Assimas. Combining a platform of constitutional reform, the newly-formed party won the 1953 Parliamentary elections and forced the Constitutional reform upon the Democratic President, Pierre Voloix. It was the driving force behind the 1954 Constitution of Sainte-Chloé, and became the primary ruling party of the early Republic, with its success forcing the other parties to form the Social Democratic Party, creating the two-party system which Sainte-Chloé still operates under. Due to a variety of causes, most notably the economic crises which plagued the Social Democrat governments, the Catholic Labour has usually controlled the government for long periods of time with comfortable majorities.

The party's ideological roots stems from the pre-Great War Holistique movement, which embraces the idea of Catholic state, saying that the laws of the Republic must be influenced by Catholic social teaching. Socially, the party is socially conservative, generally supporting traditional values, and is heavily against social reform on policies such as abortion and same-sex marriage. The party is also committed to publically funding and promoting Catholic institutions and schools. Economically, the party is corporatist, and has from its beginning been a firm supporter of trade unions, especially religious ones. While ideologically opposed to both socialism and capitalism as forms of materialism, it pursues a middle-ground between the two with a social market economy. The party also is Pro-Gaullican, being in part inspired by the Catholic Labour Union structuring the constitution in part off of Gaullica's model, as well as promoting Sainte-Chloé's Gaullican heritage.

Since creation of the independent Republic in 1954, the Catholic Labour Party has been the dominant force in Chloéois politics, having controlled a government in Parliament for a total of 47 years, well over twice the 19 years which the Social Democrats have had a government. The party has also fielded 5 out of 9 Presidents; of these, three have served two terms, unlike any of the Social Democratic Presidents. The Catholic Labour Party is the current ruling party of Sainte-Chloé, under the Presidency of Michel Thiele and the Premiership of Genevieve Chevallier. It also currently has a majority of seats in the Chamber of Commons and a majority of provincial appointed seats in the Senate.

Electoral History

Chamber of Commons

Election	Chamber of Commons					Rank	Government	Commons Leader
	Votes	%	±pp	Seats won	+/−
1954	XXX	XX.XX%	New	65 / 101	65	#1	Majority government	Raymond Rivière
1958	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	71 / 101	6	#1	Majority government	Raymond Rivière
1962	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	68 / 101	3	#1	Majority government	Raymond Rivière
1965	XXXX	XX.XX%	XX.XX%	62 / 125	6	#2	Opposition	Raymond Rivière
1969	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	69 / 125	7	#1	Majority government	François Laurent
1973	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	72 / 125	3	#1	Majority government	François Laurent
1977	XXXX	XX.XX%	XX.XX%	64 / 131	8	#2	Opposition	François Laurent
1981	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	79 / 131	15	#1	Majority government	Dominique Monteclare
1985	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	88 / 135	9	#1	Majority government	Dominique Monteclare
1989	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	84 / 135	4	#1	Majority government	Jean-Baptiste Florent
1993	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	78 / 135	6	#1	Majority government	Jean-Baptiste Florent
1997	XXXX	XX.XX%	XX.XX%	72 / 145	6	#2	Opposition	Jean-Baptiste Florent
2001	XXXX	XX.XX%	XX.XX%	64 / 145	8	#2	Opposition	Jean-Baptiste Florent
2005	XXXX	XX.XX%	XX.XX%	75 / 155	11	#2	Opposition	Jean-Baptiste Florent
2008	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	88 / 155	13	#1	Majority government	Jean-Baptiste Florent
2012	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	95 / 155	7	#1	Majority government	Bernard Blanc
2016	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	92 / 171	3	#1	Majority government	Bernard Blanc
2020	XXXX	XX.XX%	XX.XX%	85 / 171	7	#2	Opposition	Bernard Blanc
2021	XXXX	XX.XX%	X.XX%	105 / 171	20	#1	Majority government	Genevieve Chevallier