Revolutionary Rally (Gylias)

Revolutionary Rally
Founded	1961
Ideology	Statist communism Statist socialism
Political position	Far-left
Colors	Dark red
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The Revolutionary Rally (French reformed: Rassemblement révolutionnaire) is an electoral bloc of statist left parties in Gylias. Formed in 1961, it is the main statist left electoral bloc in Gylias.

History

The bloc was established in 1961, soon after electoral reform and the emergence of other blocs. The RCR took the initiative in its creation. Four more parties formed in the bloc — the RWP, WLF, PRV, and RMP — as part of a general consolidation of 5-party electoral blocs.

The RR was the heir to the statist–authoritarian left current that had been suppressed by anarchists in the Lucian Purge. As a result, it was marginalised during the Golden Revolution, having a negligible presence in Parliament. They were seen as "old left dinosaurs" in the 1960s, fixated on economics and reactionary on social issues.

Led by Aén Ďanez, the RR achieved an unexpected breakthrough in the 1976 federal election. They seized the left-wing populist approach and support base of the defunct Movement for Emancipation and Democracy, and capitalised on the disarray of the Progressive Alliance to win a plurality of first preference votes. After a month-long impasse, they formed a coalition with the PA.

The coalition was marred by bitterness between the RR and PA; both attempted to undermine the other. Aén's attempts to push Gylias towards a more statist leftist model caused conflicts with local governments and civil society, and thus were mainly responsible for the crises of the wretched decade. The PA's attempts to "restrain" the RR in office failed, and the RR kept its plurality in the 1980 federal election, largely due to a base-focused campaign. However, it failed to weaken the PA, and was thus forced to resume the coalition.

The RR expelled the PA from the coalition in 1983, reducing itself to a minority government. It mounted an aggressive and negative campaign in the 1985 federal election, where it managed to cling to third place. The resulting hung parliament and opposition disunity allowed the RR to stay in office as a caretaker until the Ossorian war crisis of 1986, when the opposition banded together and formed the Filomena Pinheiro government.

The Filomena Pinheiro government cracked down on authoritarianism, both of the far-right FROS and far-left RR. RR was subject to a media blackout and a campaign of relentless public humiliation and investigations, leading to most of its officeholders being recalled, removed from office, investigated, or convicted of various crimes and sentenced to dégradation civique or expulsion from the community in social quarantine areas.

The concerted crackdown and public revulsion at the wretched decade destroyed the RR as a political force. It lost all its seats in the 1990 federal election, and has not held any office since. There have been proposals to shut down the bloc outright, but the Directorate for Protection of the Constitution has instead argued it is preferable to let it exist as a marginalised and easy-to-supervise remnant than disband it and risk another authoritarian left force taking its place.

Composition

Party		Main ideology
	Revolutionary Workers' Party (RWP)	Statist communism
	Workers' Liberation Front (WLF)	Authoritarian socialism workerism
	Proletarian Revolutionary Vanguard (PRV)	Agrarian communism
	Radical Communist Rally (RCR)	Statist communism putschism
	Rally of Militant Proletarians (RMP)	Statist socialism

Ideology

The RR is the main statist left bloc of Gylian politics. It includes parties with statist communist, statist socialist, and putschist positions. It is far-left.

Common platform planks include support for vanguardism, statism, centralised planning, and anti-revisionism.

Symbols

The NB uses a dark shade of red as its common colour.

Electoral results

Gylian Parliament

Election	Chamber of Deputies			Senate			Government
	FPV	%	Seats	FPV	%	Seats
1962	92.910	2,0%	5 / 285	92.995	2,0%	0 / 300	Opposition
1969	85.410	1,5%	2 / 285	84.814	1,5%	0 / 300	Opposition
1976	1.491.438	21,2%	84 / 395	869.898	12,3%	39 / 300	Coalition
1980	1.666.422	21,1%	85 / 395	933.131	11,8%	40 / 300	Coalition
1985	1.349.869	15,3%	70 / 520	855.831	9,7%	32 / 300	Opposition
1990	127.971	1,3%	0 / 500	78.743	0,8%	0 / 300	No seats
1995	108.610	1,0%	0 / 500	65.153	0,6%	0 / 300	No seats
2000	73.027	0,6%	0 / 500	N/A			No seats
2004	65.917	0,5%	0 / 500				No seats
2008	57.963	0,4%	0 / 500				No seats
2012	63.911	0,4%	0 / 500				No seats
2016	70.171	0,4%	0 / 500				No seats
2020	TBD	XX,X%	0 / 500				No seats

Municipal elections

Main article: List of Gylian municipal elections