Popular Victory

Popular Victory
Luzelese name	Vitória Popular
Esmeiran name	Victoria Popular
Visegan name	Vitoria Popular
Tosuton name	Victòria Popular
Abbreviation	VP
Chairperson	Isilda Cerqueira
General Secretary	Selena Caprichoso
Deputy Leaders	Paulo Sérgio Lima António De Armas Horácio Pacau
Founders	Isilda Cerqueira Selena Caprichoso Paulo Sérgio Lima António De Armas Horácio Pacau
Founded	July 2, 2022 (2022-07-02)
Student wing	Student's Front
Youth wing	Youth's Front
Women's wing	Women's Front
Ideology	Right-wing populism Social conservatism Paretian nationalism Eucloscepticism Big tent
Political position	Center-right to far-right
Religion	Solarian Catholic
Euclean Affiliation	Movement for A New Democratic Euclea
Colors	Violet
Slogan	"Acima o Povo, Acima Paretia!" (Up with the people, up with Paretia!)
Câmara do Congresso	191 / 360
Câmara da Assembleia	62 / 120
Regional Presidencies	3 / 4
Regional legislatures	197 / 435
Euclean Parliament	16 / 65
Election symbol
Political parties

Popular Victory (Luzelese: Vitória Popular Popular; Esmeiran: Victoria Popular Popular; Visegan: Vitoria Popular Popular; Tosuton: Victòria Popular), also known as ViPo or VicPop, is a right-wing populist political party in Paretia. It was created after the unification of the populist O Povo political alliance, made up of the Patron League and Independence Movement, formerly the Alt Party, in July of 2022. It is lead by Paretian Premier Isilda Cerqueira, and co-led by Selena Caprichoso and Horácio Pacau. It formed during the middle of the 2022 Paretian constitutional crisis. It is commonly referred to as a successor to the Patron League and mainly meant to function as a unification of the O Povo alliance.

The party takes heavy inspiration from the Tribune Movement in Etruria.

Ideology

Paretian nationalism

Patron League rally in Herança, 2020

Nationalism is a core belief of Popular Victory, and has consistently had it's members state that alongside populism, it has been an integral stance of the party. The party believes that "Paretia comes before all others" on foreign issues, with the promotion of what the party calls "Paretia first" policies. Critics of the League have made comparisons of Paretias's nationalism to the Functionalist Paretian state ruled by Carlito Palmeira from 1925 to 1935. The party has denied these accusations, Selena Caprichoso has said that the comparisons are "disrespectful to the victims of the actual functionalist authoritarian state we all wish to forget."

Popular Victory has promoted various Paretian nationalist concepts such as one that they call "Nationalism of Sovereignty" (Nacionalismo de Soberania), which they believe that nationalism in Paretia is founded on the nation's struggle to unify and claim independence as a free nation against outside forces. This idea originated during the Euclean Spring and the Paretian Rervolutionary Conflict and rose to prominence during and between the Great War and the Solarian War. Using rhetoric that outside forces have continuously sought to subvert Paretian independence, and that the only way to fight against it is within nationalism and promoting Paretian culture.

This leads to the next tenet of Paretian nationalism in the party, "Protect the Culture" (Proteja a Cultura), a phrase created by Caprichoso in 2014 that believes, similarly to Nacionalismo de Soberania, that outside forces actively are trying to destroy Paretia's culture and make it more "malleable" by the elites. Popular Victory believes in promoting Solarian Catholicism and the idea the nations of Paretia are "children of the great Solarian Empire". Paretia believes in promotion of a unifying Paretian cultural identity to combat separatism while also protection the unique cultures of the many ethnicities of Paretia. VP Member Rafa Peixoto once stated that "Paretia is a nation, a nation of four united in kinship, we will support and protect each other through all time, that is Paretia's identity, that is who we are."

Social policy

Religion

De Armas visiting a Catholic Church

The party considers Sotirianity, more particularly, Solarian Catholicism, as the national religion of Paretia, and is integral to the nation's culture.

In August 2021 after it's instatement as government, the LP passed a law stated that Solarian Catholic Sotirianity will become the official religion of Paretia. The country had previously been officially secular since the fall of Functionalist Paretia and the creation of the Republic of Paretia. The party followed by creating "minority faiths" to be recognized on a lower level, to ease controversy. After the Patron League began passing laws that greatly increased the relationship between church and state, such as enforcing prayer at schools and government meetings, allowing clergy to work in education, and added mandatory religious scripture classes to school curriculums. In 2021 the Patron government of Visega passed a law that allowed teachers to refuse to teach evolution theory due to faith.

Controversies

Logo of the PNNP

The name "Popular Victory" sparked controversy over it's use of the word Victory, a word commonly associated with the far-right novanist-functionalist New Nation of Paretia Party lead by Carlito Palmeira, the logo of the party was called the "Victory Emblem" featuring the latin word "Victoria" on it. As well as the motto of the party, "Acima o Povo, Acima Paretia", the phrase "Acima Paretia", meaning "Up with Paretia" is a common nationalist phrase that was used by the PNNP during their rule and later far-right functionalist groups.