United People's Party
| United People's Party | |
|---|---|
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| Native Name | Forent Folkeparti |
| Leader | Arne Torsen |
| Founded | 5th of June, 1926 |
| Headquarters | Storvik, Breheim |
| Youth wing | Conservative Youth |
| Student wing | Conservative Students |
| Newspaper | N/A |
| Membership | 25,000 |
| Ideology | Liberal-Conservatism Christian Democracy |
| Political position | Centre-Right |
| Official colours | Blue |
| National Assembly | 17 / 320
|
| People's Assembly | 2 / 200
|
| Storfylke Assembly | 1 / 60
|
| Website | http://www.folkeparti.brh |
The United People's Party is a political party in Breheim, formed as a merger of the old Conservative Party and Liberal Party in 1926. The CP and LP had, for most of the 19th century, been the two dominant political parties of the country and held most of the governments. The two rivals merged in 1926 as a result of the rise of the Socialist Worker's Party, and were the primary opposition party during the socialist period of Breheim's history, managing to hold onto local governments primarily in the west of the country. The party has seen a massive loss of support following Lars Sebastiansen's government of 2013, the first non-socialist government in Breheim since 1922. The party's support in the non-christian areas of Breheim, the north and the east, have collapsed entirely despite the party's attempts to stress "Religious Democracy and Pluralism" rather than "Christian Democracy" and in 2014 adopted a new platform that fully cemented the party's adherence to the Christian faith and to Christian democracy.
Since 2014, the party has lost more than half its members and have become a minor party in Breheimian politics. Among the members who abandoned the party, were many of the parties' high-ranking and visible moderate figures, who largely joined the Republican Party.