Progress (Liberto-Ancapistan)
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Progress Pêşverûtî | |
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| Leader | Casimir Bergen |
| General Secretary | Abu-Hamza Hashmi |
| Deputy Leader | Indra McKarin |
| Founded | 24th January 1884 |
| Split from | Libertarian Party |
| Headquarters | Bakur Corn Exchange, Bakur Quarter, Liberty City |
| Youth wing | Progressive Youth |
| Santian wing | Progress in Santia |
| Overseas wing | Progressive International |
| Ideology | Social liberalism Social democracy Georgism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Colors | Blue Red |
| House of Commons | 236 / 500
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| Senate | 31 / 110
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| Provincial Premiers | 2 / 7
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Progress (Basaquese: Pêşverûtî), until January 2020 known as Liberty Action (Basaquese: Çalakiya Azadiyê), is a centre-left political party in Liberto-Ancapistan. It is one of the two major parties of contemporary Liberto-Ancapistan along with the Libertarian Party, from which it originally split. Progress has been a major party since the formation of Liberto-Ancapistan, but first entered government as a senior coalition partner in 2020. There has been a single Progress Chancellor, Casimir Bergen.
The party was founded in 1884, after the Republic of Libertaria's Libertarian Party strengthened its leadership rules for the explicit purpose of weakening left-wing elements. Several prominent social-liberal MPs, including cabinet member Adel Xwe, split from the party to found a new body for social-liberal interests, named Liberty Action. The party would go on to govern Libertaria between 1902 and 1908, during which it passed several long-standing social reforms, and remained a major force until the unification of Liberto-Ancapistan. Like many other parties from Libertaria, the party successfully established itself on a national level through informal mergers with regional liberal parties.
The party regularly attained chief opposition party status through the late 20th century, forming coalition governments with the Libertarian Party through the mid-late 1970s. During the 2000s, Liberty Action benefitted from the weakness of the Libertarian Party, but failed to establish itself nationally until the 2019 anti-austerity protests, when it saw a surge in popularity. In 2020 the party was retitled Progress, and shortly after won the 2020 general election, establishing a coalition government. Since then, the party has won two further general elections, but suffered with the breakaway of the Social Democratic Party in 2022.
The Libertarian Party has historically adopted a mixture of social-liberal and social-democratic policies, though following the departure of several MPs to form the Social Democratic Party in 2022 it has gravitated primarily towards the former. Additionally, the party hs a strong Georgist tendency, and is highly supportive of both land value taxes and universal basic income. Progress is strongly internationalist, and has pursued a more interventionist foreign policy than other Liberto-Ancapistanian parties. The party has taken a broadly supportive approach to the United Federation of Telrova (UFT), with Progress Chancellor Casimir Bergen joining it in 2022. However, Progress has shown scepticism towards proposals of further UFT integration, including a joint customs union.