Civic Party of Themiclesia
Civic Party of Themiclesia 震旦邦人會 | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | CiP |
| Leader | Admiral Kjun |
| Founded | April 11, 1971 |
| Slogan | Themiclesians first |
| House of Commons | 0 / 349 |
| House of Lords | 0 / 445 |
| Pref. assemblies | 11 / 2,835 |
| Pref. councils | 5 / 1,422 |
The Civic Party of Themiclesia (邦人, prong-njing; lit. "citizens") is a right-wing nationalist party in Themiclesia. It was founded in 1971 as the Reform Party and reconstituted as the current in 1991. The party's platform has fluctated with current issues but mainly revolves around discouraging both emigration and immigration. The party's current leader is Admiral Kjun, and it has a registered, fee-paying membership of 7,900 nationally.
The party claims its current platform is centred on maximizing national unity and strength in face of adversity "both seen and unseen"; to that end, it resists what it calls the "disestablishment of majority culture" and instead proposes that primary and secondary curricula should be organized around the "defence and protection of majority culture". It rejects official multiculturalism and multilingualism and argues that "cultural homogeneity is the fundament that both withstands political factionalism and enables healthy political diversity without creating civic disorder".
The Civic Party proposes that immigration should be limited to investment migrants willing to integrate. Economically, it sets forth a laissez-faire economic system and the complete elimintaion of direct taxation, which it believed had driven the "golden age" of exports between 1827 – 50. While many criticize it as extreme, the party considers this a "moderate and third position".
It terms of foreign and defence policy, the Civic Party proposes that Themiclesia stands in a unique position that is "neither in the fraternity of Casaterran nations" nor "the nations of the Orient." It promotes friendship with Camia, Solevant, Agaulon, and Järvalaimaa to resist "World Socialism and Maverica". However, it is against closer ties with Menghe and Dzhungestan, as they are viewed as "cultural hegemonies that seek to subsume others."
Criticism
The Conservative peer the 8th Lord of Krungh has published two monographs on the Civic Party's recent emergence. He considers the party to have a "pernicious" appeal to imperial history and says that the party's foreign policy is a veiled, irredentist attempt at resurrecting Themiclesian influence on the subcontinent; however, the books themselves have been criticized as "rather narrow in scope and does not truly address the modern merits or demerits of the party's platform". Admiral Kjun has published an article on The Times of Themiclesia that the party has no ambition in other nations' affairs and "merely seeks co-operation on the basis of common culture, and nothing more."