National Labour Party (Imagua)

National Labour Party of Imagua and the Assimas Partito Nazionale Laburista di Imagua e Assime
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Founded	1978
Dissolved	2 April, 1997
Split from	Democratic Labour Party
Merged into	Sotirian Labour Party
Headquarters	Cuanstad, Imagua and the Assimas
Student wing	National Labour Students Association
Youth wing	National Labour Youth
Ideology	Conservatism
Political position	Centre-right
Colors	Gold
Anthem	The Land
Senate	0 / 60
Chamber of Commons	0 / 70
Political parties Elections

The National Labour Party (Etrurian: Partito Nazionale Laburista di Imagua e Assime) was an Imaguan political party that existed from 1978, when it split from the Democratic Labour Party, until 1997, when it merged with the Sotirian Democratic Party to form the Sotirian Labour Party.

Emerging from a split in 1978, Travis Marshall led the party for the first few years, seeing a modest success in the 1980 general election. In the 1981 snap elections, Chinnici saw a modest increase in the party's seats, before becoming the primary opposition party in 1984, at the expense of the Sotirian Democratic Party. In 1988, Dale Morse oversaw a significant success for the party, and by 1992, had sidelined the Sotirian Democratic Party. However, following a disappointing loss in 1996, Erico D'Antonio and Erberto Formica negotiated to merge the two parties into a single party. After the merger was approved by both parties, the parties were merged in 1997, although a small faction continues on as the New Labour Party.

History

From the 1975 leadership convention on, where Pietro Muro defeated Travis Marshall, Marshall had vocerifiously criticised the leadership of the Democratic Labour Party, arguing that Muro was "too radical," and was "too blinded by ideology to govern properly," in addition to criticising Muro's expansion of the Imaguan welfare state.

By 1978, with tensions at an all-time high between the two factions, Travis Marshall and four other MPs crossed the floor and established the National Labour Party. Marshall positioned himself as being a "common sense Labourite," proposing a downsizing of the Imaguan welfare state, instituting "common sense regulations" to benefit both the trade unions and the employers, and to institute a "one-person, one-vote" system for the party's internal structure. In 1979, the Imaguan Party of Democrats merged with the National Labour Party.

These developments alarmed the Democratic Labour Party, who by 1980 were governing Imagua in a recession. This forced the DLP to move further to the right, which in term caused the National Labour Party to move further right to try and avoid losing voters to the DLP, and gain voters from the Sotirian Democratic Party. This led to substantial vote splitting between the NLP and the SDP, which helped allow the DLP to secure another term.

While it saw slight improvements in the 1981 snap general election under Raniero Chinnici's leadership, it only became the primary opposition party in 1984, when it surpassed the Sotirian Democratic Party to become the official opposition in the Chamber of Commons of the Imaguan parliament, especially due to Chinnici's right-ward shift. In 1988, Dale Morse greatly improved on the party's results, and by 1992, the Sotirian Democratic Party lost all its seats. However, under Erico D'Antonio's leadership, the party lost seats due to vote-splitting with the Sotirian Democratic Party.

Thus, in 1996, Erberto Formica and D'Antonio negotiated the merger of the Sotirian Democratic Party with the National Party: following the approval of the merger, the Sotirian Labour Party was established in June 1997, with both parties de-registering themselves.

Election results

Election	Leader	Candidates	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	Position
1980	Travis Marshall	58/67	8 / 67	1	172,164	25.45%	Third party
1981		67/67	9 / 67	1	156,599	23.69%	Third party
1984	Raniero Chinnici	64/64	14 / 64	5	161,437	28.58%	Official Opposition
1988	Dale Morse	64/64	25 / 64	11	185,243	31.80%	Official Opposition
1992		67/67	30 / 67	4	236,824	38.22%	Official Opposition
1996	Erico D'Antonio	67/67	28 / 67	2	241,945	35.70%	Official Opposition