National Party of Wizlandia

National Party
Abbreviation	NAT
Leader	James Ward (Leader of the Opposition)
Deputy Leader	Harold Stevens (Senate Minority Leader)
Founded	2012
Newspaper	The National Post
Think tank	National Institute
Youth wing	Young Conservatives
Ideology	Conservatism Fiscal Conservatism Social Conservatism
Political position	Centre-Right
European affiliation	European Conservatives and Reformists (Observing Member)
International affiliation	International Democrat Union
Colors	Dark Green
Slogan	"Creating a stronger Wizlandia together."
House of Commons	180 / 800
Senate	27 / 120
State Legislatures	1,156 / 4,826
Political parties

The National Party, abbreviated NAT, is one of the three major contemporary political parties of Wizlandia, along with its main political rivals the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. It is currently in opposition to the Liberal-SDP coalition government.

The National Party ideology is Conservatism, which incorporates both fiscal and social conservative policies. On economic issues the National Party favours a capitalist economy with some economic regulations, and have supported policies such as transitioning from the LVT and VAT based tax scheme to an income based tax scheme, implementing agricultural subsidies, establishing small tariffs on foreign agriculture, and redirecting government spending from education to healthcare and pensions. On cultural issues, the National Party leans conservative, they favour drug criminalisation, laws restricting abortion, tough on crime policies, increased policing, increased restrictions on immigration, and oppose the legalisation of prostitution. The majority of Nationals support a neoconservative foreign policy and an increase in military spending in order to aggressively promote Wizlandian foreign interests, though there is a small faction that favour non-interventionism and economic nationalism. Most, but not all, Nationals acknowledge existence of anthropogenic climate change, but the party has no common climate change policy.

Political Positions

Constitution

The Constitution of Wizlandia was enacted in 2013 by a Liberal-National coalition government, and the National Party are in favour of maintaining the current constitution, although factions of the party have also advocated amendments that would make it easier for the federal government to enact immigration restrictions, and amendments that would give greater freedom to the States on social policy, such as whether to recognise gay marriage, polygamic marriage, in addition to freedom to enact harsher criminal sentences. The National Party oppose amendments that would lower the threshold of passing a bill from a three-fifths supermajority of both houses to a simple majority, and they oppose amendments that would weaken the Constitutional provisions restraining federal power.

Economics

The National Party lean towards the right on economic issues, and is broadly in favour of free trade, low taxes, a small to medium sized welfare state, and oppose increased regulations and the creation of a minimum wage. Despite being mostly in favour of free trade, the National Party support agricultural subsidies and low tariffs on foreign agriculture, and they advocate redirecting education and anti-poverty spending towards healthcare and retirement protection. On taxation, the National Party support eliminating the Land-Value Tax, which they have criticised as harmful towards the agricultural sector, in addition to reducing the Value-Added Tax, and replacing the lost revenue with an increase in the income tax and the creation of a 10% corporate tax.

Environment

Most Nationals acknowledge the existence of anthropogenic climate change, but the party has no common climate change policy. Some factions of the National Party support the current carbon tax, while other factions prefer reducing the carbon tax and instead enacting green subsidies. The National Party oppose a ban on fracking, which they describe as both an important job creator and an important intermediary step in transitioning towards green energy.