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Vetonia is a federal state with a multi-party system governed along consociational lines. The divisions within ethnic groups along class lines renders impossible the formation of a majority government, instead coalition governments have been the norm since the founding of the country in 1917.

Nearly all political families are divided along ethnic lines, with multiple parties catering similar ideological profiles to their respective ethnic groups. As a result, parties register as either Javol-Iverdonian, Rugrese, Brillian or Rodenese. Rugrese parties only operate in Vellavia and Tosandria, whereas Brillian parties only run for election in Iverdonia and Rodenia. Rodenese parties operate solely in Rodenia, and nationalist Iverdonian parties, although they register as 'Javol-Iverdonian' only run in Iverdonia. Typically, most Javol-Iverdonian parties do not run in Rodenia, instead establishing electoral pacts with autochthonous parties. There is also a small number of parties, on the left and far-left of the political spectrum that seek to appeal to voters from all of the country's five ethnic groups.

From the establishment of the country in 1917, there have been four main political families: social democrats, liberals, agrarians and religious parties. As early as 1920, however, the more extreme elements of the various social democratic parties split and formed a fifth political family, the communist. Likewise, beginning with the 1930s, a sixth party family, a nationalist one, either more politically moderate or on the far-right surged. Lastly, beginning the 1970s, the rise of the New Left gave birth to two more political parties that appeal to all ethnic groups, the democratic socialists, split from the PCPV and the Greens.

Main ideological families

Social democracy

The modern Vetonian social democratic parties trace their existence to the labour movement of the late 19th century, particularly in Vellavia, which gave birth to the Labour Party of Vellavia and Tosandria in 1871.

Parties

Vetonian parties in Parliament
Name			Ideology	Leader	State MPs	Federal MPs	Senators
	Worker's Party of Vetonia Partit des travallers de Vetonia Partida dals Lavurers da Vetonia	PTV PLV	Social democracy, progressivism	? (since ?)	89	60 (government)	21 (government)
	Agrarian Party of Vetonia Partit agrer de Vetonia Partida agrara da Vetonia	PAV	Agrarianism, liberal conservatism	? (since ?)	43	26 (opposition)	8 (opposition)
	People's Party of Vetonia Partit popular de Vetonia Partida populara da Vetonia	PPV	Popularism, social conservatism	? (since ?)	42	23 (government)	7 (government)
c	Flemish Interest	Vlaams Belang	Vlaams Belang	Tom Van Grieken (since 2014)	42	18 (opposition)	3 (EAF)
d	Green	Groen	Groen	Meyrem Almaci (since 2014)	14 (opposition)	8 (opposition)	1 (Greens)
e	Socialist Party Differently	Socialistische Partij Anders	sp.a	John Crombez (since 2015)	12 (opposition)	9 (opposition)	1 (PES)
French-speaking parties in Parliament
	Name in English	Name in French	Abbrev.	Leader	Community MPs	Federal MPs	MEPs
f	Socialist Party	Parti Socialiste	PS	Elio Di Rupo (1999–2011, since 2014)	23 (government)	20 (opposition)	2 (PES)
g	Reformist Movement	Mouvement Réformateur	MR	Olivier Chastel (since 2014)	20 (government)	14 (government)	2 (ALDE)
h	Humanist Democratic Centre	Centre Démocrate Humaniste	cdH	Maxime Prévot (since 2019)	10 (opposition)	5 (opposition)	2 (EPP)
i	Ecolo	Ecolo	Ecolo	Zakia Khattabi & Patrick Dupriez (since 2015)	12 (government)	13 (opposition)	2 (Greens)
j	Democratic Federalist Independent	Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant	DéFI	Olivier Maingain (since 1995)	–	2 (opposition)	–
National (bilingual) parties in Parliament
	Name in English	Name in Dutch/French	Abbrev.	Leader	Community MPs	Federal MPs	MEPs
k	Workers' Party	Partij van de Arbeid van België Parti du travail de Belgique	PVDA PTB	Peter Mertens (since 2008)	NL: 4 FR: 10 (opposition)	12 (opposition)	1
German-speaking parties in Parliament
	Name in English	Name in German	Abbrev.	Leader	Community MPs	Part of	MEPs
l	Christian Social Party	Christlich Soziale Partei	CSP		7 (opposition)	cdH	1 (EPP)
m	ProDG	ProDG	ProDG		6 (government)	—	–
n	Party for Freedom and Progress	Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt	PFF		4 (government)	MR	–
ñ	Socialist Party	Sozialistische Partei	SP		4 (government)	PS	–
o	Ecolo	Ecolo	Ecolo		2 (opposition)	Ecolo	–
p	Vivant	Vivant	Vivant		2 (opposition)	Vivant	–