Progressive Unity Party
| Progressive Unity Party | |
|---|---|
| File:Progressive Unity Party.png | |
| Leader | Nadzieja Brzezicki |
| Founded | 26th May 1978 |
| Headquarters | Epping, Malgrave |
| Youth wing | Youth Progressive League |
| Newspaper | Progressive Daily |
| Anthem | Solidarity Forever (official) The Red Flag (unofficial) |
| Ideology | Progressivism Eugenics (Former) |
| Political position | Left |
| Official colours | Pink |
| Chamber of Representatives | 1,178 / 2,200
|
| Chamber of Supervisors | 230 / 500
|
| Local Government | 9,508 / 23,053
|
| Website | http://www.progressiveunityparty.ms |
The Progressive-Unity Party is a left-wing political party in the United Kingdom Malgrave. It is currently the largest political party in the Chamber of Representatives and the Chamber of Supervisors.
History
In the early 1970s election results for the Unity Party had proven to be extremely disappointing and it was getting close to four decades since the party had last formed a government. At this time, the Progressive Party was enjoying small localised successes at both a national and local level, however, public perceptions on the ability of the party to effectively govern combined with vote splitting and idealogical dispute had meant that the party had also underperformed compared to their own expectations.
After a series of meetings between the leadership of the Unity and Progressive Party it was decided that a merger would work both for best sides, and so the Progressive Unity Party was officially formed on the 26th of May 1978, a date which holds significant value since it was when the modern Malgravean state was founded.
Initially, the Progressive Unity Party struggled to effectively counter the effective organisation displayed by the Conservative Action Party, however, they eventually came to power following the 1980 Malgravean General Election and have since enjoyed status as one of the largest parties in the country.
Since leaving isolation the Progressive Unity Party has enjoyed unparalled success. Nadzieja Brzezicki is current leader of the party and also serves as the nations Prime Minister.
Political Platform
In economic terms the Progressive-Unity Party official supports a version of the social market economy, with a strong private sector involving both national and international businesses (including workers cooperatives and workers self-managed enterprises) competing together in a well-regulated economy in order to provide the consumer with the cheapest quality products, provide steady economic growth and support a high standard of living while maintaining workers rights. At the same time, the PUP also supports the current levels of nationalisation and are dedicated to stopping any move towards privatisation. Internal party divides give different reasons for the supported nationalisation with more nationalist portions of the party claiming that important sectors like energy, transportation and infrastructure construction cannot be handled by foreign capitalists and the more centrist and liberal in the party claiming that such sectors of the economy are designed to provide a service to the populace over excessive profits. The Progressive Unity Party also support what they call a fair tax in which the wealthiest citizens and corporations pay an increased amount of tax compared to the poorest in society and the middle class.
On other issues the PUP is also incredibly liberal, on social issues the party supports the theory of 'total equality in which all races, classes, genders, sexualities, species and religions are treated with equal regard and granted the same common rights, for those reasons they support the marriage, adoption, anti-discrimination and anti-hate speech laws dictated in the 1983 Equalities Act, the first act to codify protections for the LGBTQIA+ community.
On matters of foreign policy, the PUP supports the policy of non-alignment maintaining relations with countries regardless of their political background, although that does not apply to nations with far-right administrations or self-proclaimed states that practice slavery. The PUP charter also maintains a link to non-interventionism and supports the idea of maintaining a strong defensive military force to protect the country from invasion, support global humanitarian missions and defend crucial allies from invasion, despite this non-intervention clause the PUP gladly supported Prime Minister Rachel Berry when she announced Operation Infinite Reach and have since declared it a global humanitarian mission to get around the issues of the party charter.