Renaissance (Austeria)
Renaissance Rilindjes | |
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| Abbreviation | PRPA |
| Governing body | Central Command |
| President | Ron Turati |
| Founder | Anton Turati |
| Founded | 16 November 1921 |
| Headquarters | Kartha, Austeria |
| Newspaper | Galene |
| Paramilitary wing | Trident of the Nation |
| Membership (2016) | 40,000 |
| Ideology | Austerian nationalism Left-wing nationalism Secularism Anti-Etrurianism Historical: (1921-1942) National Functionalism Anti-communism Corporatism (1942-1988) National Equalism |
| Political position | Syncretic Left-wing (de facto) Historical: Right-wing to far-right (1921-1942) |
| National affiliation | March Bloc |
| Colours | Black, blue, and white |
| Senate | 2 / 131
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| Council of Ministers | 0 / 24
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The Austerian Popular Party (Tethian: Partia e Popullore Austeriak), commonly known as Renaissance (Rilindjes), is an Austerian nationalist political party in Austeria. The party advocates for the establishment of a centralized state with a common Austerian identity and alignment with the socialist world. Historically, the party supported National Functionalism in the first two decades of its existence, before it aligned itself with the Equalist Austerian Liberation Front. It is currently a minor party, with 2 seats in the Senate in alliance with the Socialist Party of Austeria.
The party was founded in 1921, by Anton Turati who modeled it after the Parti Populaire in Gaullica, as an anticolonial political organization hostile to Etrurian rule. During the Great War, it allied itself with the Grand Alliance and launched attacks against Etrurian forces in Austeria. The party was heavily suppressed following the war, but it remained organized which allowed it to reemerge following the Legionary Reaction. At the outbreak of the Solarian War, the party aligned itself with the Austerian Liberation Front, despite the ideological differences between the two.
After the formation of the Austerian People's Republic, Renaissance remained a prominent organisation, albeit as a satellite party of the Liberation Front. During the Austerian Conflict, its paramilitary participated in the ethnic conflict alongside the government and was accused of several warcrimes. After the end of the one-party state in 1988 and the transition to a council republic, the party went into decline but re-emerged following the 2005 economic crisis and the collapse of the People's Republic. Its ideology has been described by scholars and analysts as a blend of populism, militant laborism, and paternalism with a significant focus on a unifying "civic" nationalism. The party has been accused of being Functionalist or Neo-Equalist by its detractors.