Democratic Party (Arabi)

Democratic Party of Arabi
Chairperson	Hector Lopez
Secretary	Camille Grande
President	Lona Freeman
Vice President	Vacant
Senate Majority Leader	Mary Nichols
House Majority Leader	Steven Turner
Founded	April 20, 2014 (2014-04-20)
Preceded by	Liberal Socialist Party
Student wing	Democratic Students
Youth wing	Young Democrats
Women's wing	Democratic Feminists
LGBT wing	LGBTQ+ Democrats
Membership (2021)	20,585,254
Ideology	• Democratic Socialism • Social Democracy • Liberalism • Left-wing populism • Socialism • Green politics • Anti-Nationalism • Feminism
Political position	Centre to Left-wing
Colors	Cerulean Blue
Seats in the Senate	16 / 32
Seats in the House	98 / 195
State Governorships	7 / 16
State Upper Chamber Seats	209 / 392
State Lower Chamber Seats	630 / 1,226
Total State Legislature Seats	871 / 1,618
Total Seats	949 / 1,813

The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in Arabi, the other one being the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party was founded in 2014 with the intention of merging with the Liberal Socialist Party in hopes to broaden membership amongst liberals whose idelogies weren't completly aligned with the Liberal Socialist Party. Democrats believe in democratic socialism with an social market economy. They believe in letting private business to operate but with some government regulations to prevent corruption, specifically bribery, embezzelment, and tax fraud.

The current President and Vice President is Lona Freeman and Robert Stepgens respectively, both are members of the Democratic Party. Freeman was orignally elected as a Liberal Socialist but brokered a deal to merge the two parties in July 2020.

Political positons

Social issues and policies

Democrats are in favor of many social policies to help reduce poverty, especially food assisstance programs, public housing, curbing homelessness, free education, free healthcare, and energy assisstance programs. For many years liberals in Arabi have been trying to implement a universal healthcare program but ultimately have been unable to agree fully on how to make it work. Many Democrats are in favor of a univeral basic income for citizens making less than $30,000 a year. They are also in favor of making education tutiton free but have been successful in lowering tutions for private institutions. Democrats are in favor of raising taxes on citizens that make $150,000 or more a year. A carbon tax has been growing in popularity within the party to curb climate change.