Political parties in The Furbish Islands

This article lists political parties in The Furbish Islands.

The Furbish Islands is a multi-party democracy and has hundreds of registered political parties, the vast majority existing only in the provincial and territorial level. On the federal and regional level, many parties align themselves with one of the "Big Three" party alliances, the Christian Democratic Union, Liberal Union, and Progressive Union, or one of the four smaller alliances, Alianza de Ley y Justicia, Alliance of Furbish Green Parties, Democrats and Progressives of The Furbish Islands, and National Conservative List. Other parties with seats in the National Assembly include Alternative for The Furbish Islands, De Burgers, Moderate Movement, National Rally, New Left, Nyevestligelands Konservative Folkeparti, the satirical Partij Fête Fiesta Party, and the Pirate Party.

Organization

Furbish political parties, especially the four alliances, are more loosely organized than parties in most countries. The four alliances exist only on the national and regional levels. Other parties have separate organizations in different provinces, territories, and regions they are active in. While they are legally separate entities, they often have an organization leading all of them, which may or may not be the regional or national organization of that party.

The Furbish constitution requires that parties are "democratic organizations representing the interests of their members" and lays out how they are to be organized.

Delegates

The party delegates are the main governing body of each political party, which decide the party platform, elect the leaders, and in party alliances can approve new member parties as well as expel current members. They can also expel individuals from a party. Usually they are elected every 3 years from local branches. They meet once a year to discuss most matters, and always meet before the start of the official election campaign to elect a party leader.

Chair and executive committee

The party executive committee handles administrative tasks such as managing finances and hiring campaign staff. They are elected by the party delegates.

Party leaders

Party leaders are considered the "face" of the party and represent its views in debates and to the general public. Parties have a leader in the national government and in every federal subject it is active in, and leaders are also the party's candidate for Prime Minister or the provincial equivalent, or serve in the cabinet or shadow cabinet.

In addition to the leaders there is a number of co-leaders. Depending on the party, they might either be handpicked by the leader or elected in separate elections (or be the runners up in the leader election). In parties that have a parliamentary leader, they are always a co-leader as well.

Parliamentary leaders and whips

Unlike in many countries, the parliamentary leader in Furbish parties is a separate position from the party leader. Parliamentary leaders lead representatives of the party in the National Assembly or in other federal subject assemblies and are in charge of a party's legislative agenda. They are elected by deputies of the party, usually in either a multi-round or ranked choice system, and they appoint party whips who enforce discipline. Traditionally the parliamentary leader of the leading party in the governing coalition is referred to as the Leader of the National Assembly (or their respective assembly) and is in the cabinet, while the leader of the leading party of shadow government is referred to as the shadow leader and is in the shadow cabinet. Both organize the government's and opposition's legislative agendas respectively.

List

Current parties

Christian Democratic Union

Name			Ideology	Political Position	National Assembly	Region executives	Region assemblies	Province and Territory executives	Province and Territory assemblies
		Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	Center to center-right	Christian democracy Conservatism Liberal conservatism	95 / 615	1 / 5	420 / 1,000	14 / 125	1,337 / 4,000

Liberal Union

Name			Ideology	Political Position	National Assembly	Region executives	Region assemblies	Province and Territory executives	Province and Territory assemblies
		Liberal Union (LU)	Classical liberalism Conservative liberalism	Center to center-right	132 / 615	2 / 5	420 / 1,000	51 / 125	1,337 / 4,000

Progressive Union

Name			Ideology	Political Position	National Assembly	Region executives	Region assemblies	Province and Territory executives	Province and Territory assemblies
		Progressive Union (PU)	Social democracy Social liberalism Progressivism	Center-left to left-wing	99 / 615	2 / 5	429 / 1,000	48 / 125	1,337 / 4,000

Alianza de Ley y Justicia

Name			Ideology	Political Position	National Assembly	Region executives	Region assemblies	Province and Territory executives	Province and Territory assemblies
		Alianza de Ley y Justicia (ALJ)	Social conservatism Social market economy Liberal conservatism	Center to center-right	15 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	4 / 125	1,337 / 4,000

Alliance of Furbish Green Parties

Name			Ideology	Political Position	National Assembly	Region executives	Region assemblies	Province and Territory executives	Province and Territory assemblies
		Alliance of Furbish Green Parties (AFGP)	Green politics Green conservatism (factions)	Center-left left-wing (factions) center (factions) center-right (factions)	30 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	2 / 125	1,337 / 4,000

Democrats and Progressives of The Furbish Islands

Name			Ideology	Political Position	National Assembly	Region executives	Region assemblies	Province and Territory executives	Province and Territory assemblies
		Democrats and Progressives of The Furbish Islands (DPTFI)	Social democracy Progressivism	Left-wing	54 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	0 / 125	1,337 / 4,000

National Conservative List

Name			Ideology	Political Position	National Assembly	Region executives	Region assemblies	Province and Territory executives	Province and Territory assemblies
		National Conservative List (NCL)	Conservatism Liberal conservatism	Center-right to right-wing	18 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	3 / 125	1,337 / 4,000

Other national parties

The following are parties that have had seats in the National Assembly but are not part of any party alliance.

Name			Ideology	Political Position	National Assembly	Region executives	Region assemblies	Province and Territory executives	Province and Territory assemblies
		Alternative for The Furbish Islands (AFTFI)	Right-wing populism National conservatism Furbish nationalism Economic nationalism	Far-right	31 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	0 / 125	1,337 / 4,000
		De Burgers (Burgers)	Agrarianism Cultural liberalism		15 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	2 / 125	1,337 / 4,000
		Moderate Movement (MM)	Social liberalism Progressivism	center-left	12 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	0 / 125	1,337 / 4,000
		National Rally (NR)	Left-wing populism Socialism Non-interventionism	Far-left	8 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	0 / 125	1,337 / 4,000
		New Ideas (NI)	Right-wing populism Social conservatism Economic patriotism	Right-wing to far-right	56 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	0 / 125	1,337 / 4,000
		Nyevestligelands Konservative Folkeparti (NKF)	Conservatism Liberal conservatism	Center-right to right-wing	10 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	1 / 125	1,337 / 4,000
		Partij Fête Fiesta Party (PFFP)	Political satire		8 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	0 / 125	1,337 / 4,000
		Pirate Party (Pirates)	Pirate politics		10 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	0 / 125	1,337 / 4,000
		The New Left (TNL)	Left-wing populism Democratic socialism Progressivism	Left-wing to far-left	9 / 615	0 / 5	420 / 1,000	0 / 125	1,337 / 4,000

Local parties

Only parties with seats in any federal subject legislatures are listed here.

Former parties

Only parties with seats in any federal subject legislatures are listed here.

Coalitions

As legislatures on all levels of Furbish governments are elected proportionally, it is rare when a single party or party alliance wins an absolute majority, so parties have to form a coalition government. Since the Third Great War each party is associated with a color, and certain coalitions have been given nicknames by the media. The following are ones which have been in power in a federal subject government in the post-Third Great War era, organized by major parties. They are listed by names preferred by the Furbish National Broadcasting Company, with names used by other sources listed below.

Certain parties are usually grouped together due to being ideologically similar and operating in different provinces, but almost always enter coalition talks together in higher levels. For example the CDU and ALJ are both socially conservative and economically centrist, while both the CP and DPK are socially and fiscally conservative.

Christian Democratic Union and/or ALJ:

• Pineapple coalition (CDU and/or ALJ and AFGP)    
• Zarare coalition (CDU, ALJ, and NKF)    
• TBD coalition (CDU, ALJ, NKF, and MM)     
• TBD coalition (CDU and/or ALJ and NI)    

Liberal Union:

Progressive Union:

• Atocha coalition (PU and NCL)   
• Aurora coalition (PU, AFGP, Burgers, MM, and Pirates)      
• Christmas coalition (PU and Burgers)   
• Christmas storm coalition (PU, AFGP, and MM)     or (PU, Burgers, and MM)     or (PU, AFGP, Burgers, and MM)     
  • Sometimes called the icy Christmas coalition by foreign media
• Gryva coalition (PU and MM)   
• Louisiana coalition (PU and NKF)   
  • Sometimes called the New Piedmont coalition
• Strawberry coalition (PU and AFGP)   
  • Called the Sexish coalition by most other media

CDU and/or ALJ and LU:

CDU and/or ALJ and PU:

LU and PU:

• Mavona coalition (LU and PU)   

Hypothetical coalitions

The following are hypothetical coalitions that have been discussed either by politicians or the media, and could have held a majority at some point. They may have also held majorities on the municipal level.

Christian Democratic Union and/or ALJ:

• Carrot coalition (CDU and Burgers)   

Liberal Union:

• Gagium coalition (LU and Pirates)   

Progressive Union:

• Valentines coalition (PU and Pirates)   

CDU and/or ALJ and LU:

CDU and/or ALJ and PU:

LU and PU:

CDU and/or ALJ, LU, and PU:

Minor parties only:

• Kiwi coalition (Burgers and NI)   

AFTFI:

The following coalitions include AFTFI, which is under a cordon sanitaire by other parties.

• Avocado coalition (AFTFI and AFGP)    or (AFTFI and Burgers)   
• Basketball coalition (AFTFI and CDU)    or (AFTFI and ALJ)    or (AFTFI, CDU, and ALJ)    
• Bee coalition (AFTFI and LU)   
• Ladybug coalition (AFTFI and PU)   
• Midnight coalition (AFTFI and NCL)    or (AFTFI and NKF)   

Pre-Third Great War

The following are names given to past coalitions. It should be noted that these were names given by modern historians, and past party colors do not align with ones used by current parties even with a similar ideology.