Revolutionary Rally (Gylias)
Revolutionary Rally | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1961 |
| Dissolved | 2010 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colors | Dark red |
The Revolutionary Rally (French reformed: Rassemblement révolutionnaire) is an electoral bloc of statist left parties in Gylias. Formed in 1961, it is the main statist left electoral bloc in Gylias.
History
The bloc was established in 1961, soon after electoral reform and the emergence of other blocs. The Radical Communist Rally took the initiative in its creation.
The RR was the heir to the statist–authoritarian left current that had been suppressed by anarchists in the Lucian Purge. As a result, it was marginalised during the Golden Revolution, having a negligible presence in Parliament. They were seen as "old left dinosaurs" in the 1960s, fixated on economics and reactionary on social issues.
Led by Aén Ďanez, the RR achieved an unexpected breakthrough in the 1976 federal election. They seized the left-wing populist approach and support base of the defunct Movement for Emancipation and Democracy, and capitalised on the disarray of the Progressive Alliance to win a plurality of first preference votes. After a month-long impasse, they formed a coalition with the PA.
The coalition was marred by bitterness between the RR and PA; both attempted to undermine the other. Aén's attempts to push Gylias towards a more statist leftist model caused conflicts with local governments and civil society, and thus were mainly responsible for the crises of the wretched decade. The PA's attempts to "restrain" the RR in office failed, and the RR kept its plurality in the 1980 federal election, largely due to a base-focused campaign. However, it failed to weaken the PA, and was thus forced to resume the coalition.
The RR expelled the PA from the coalition in 1983, reducing itself to a minority government. It mounted an aggressive and negative campaign in the 1985 federal election, where it managed to cling to third place. The resulting hung parliament and opposition disunity allowed the RR to stay in office as a caretaker until the Ossorian war crisis of 1986, when the opposition banded together and formed the Filomena Pinheiro government.
The Filomena Pinheiro government cracked down on authoritarianism, both of the far-right FROS and far-left RR. RR was subject to a media blackout and a campaign of relentless public humiliation and investigations, leading to most of its officeholders being recalled, removed from office, investigated, or convicted of various crimes and sentenced to dégradation civique or expulsion from the community in social quarantine areas.
The concerted crackdown and public revulsion at the wretched decade destroyed the RR as a political force. It lost all its seats in the 1990 federal election, and has not held any office since.
The Directorate for Protection of the Constitution banned it and all its parties in 2010, as ordered by the Marie-Agnès Delaunay government.
Composition
| Party | Main ideology | |
|---|---|---|
| Revolutionary Workers' Party (RWP) | Statist communism | |
| Workers' Liberation Front (WLF) | ||
| Proletarian Revolutionary Vanguard (PRV) | Agrarian communism | |
| Radical Communist Rally (RCR) | ||
| Rally of Militant Proletarians (RMP) | Statist socialism | |
Ideology
The RR is the main statist left bloc of Gylian politics. It includes parties with statist communist, statist socialist, and putschist positions. It is far-left.
Common platform planks include support for vanguardism, statism, centralised planning, and anti-revisionism.
Symbols
The NB uses a dark shade of red as its common colour.
Electoral results
Gylian Parliament
| Election | Chamber of Deputies | Senate | Government | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FPV | % | Seats | FPV | % | Seats | ||
| 1962 | 92.910 | 2,0% | 5 / 285
|
92.995 | 2,0% | 0 / 300
|
Opposition |
| 1969 | 85.410 | 1,5% | 2 / 285
|
84.814 | 1,5% | 0 / 300
|
Opposition |
| 1976 | 1.491.438 | 21,2% | 84 / 395
|
869.898 | 12,3% | 39 / 300
|
Coalition |
| 1980 | 1.666.422 | 21,1% | 85 / 395
|
933.131 | 11,8% | 40 / 300
|
Coalition |
| 1985 | 1.349.869 | 15,3% | 70 / 520
|
855.831 | 9,7% | 32 / 300
|
Opposition |
| 1990 | 127.971 | 1,3% | 0 / 500
|
78.743 | 0,8% | 0 / 300
|
No seats |
| 1995 | 108.610 | 1,0% | 0 / 500
|
65.153 | 0,6% | 0 / 300
|
No seats |
| 2000 | 73.027 | 0,6% | 0 / 500
|
N/A | No seats | ||
| 2004 | 65.917 | 0,5% | 0 / 500
|
No seats | |||
| 2008 | 57.963 | 0,4% | 0 / 500
|
No seats | |||
| 2012 | 63.911 | 0,4% | 0 / 500
|
No seats | |||
| 2016 | 70.171 | 0,4% | 0 / 500
|
No seats | |||
| 2020 | 76.451 | 0,4% | 0 / 500
|
No seats | |||
