Popular Victory
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| Luzelese name | Vitória Popular |
| Esmeiran name | Victoria Popular |
| Visegan name | Vitoria Popular |
| Tosuton name | Victòria Popular |
| Abbreviation | VP |
| Chairperson | Isilda Cerqueira |
| General Secretary | Selena Caprichoso |
| Deputy Leaders | Paulo Sérgio Lima António De Armas Horácio Pacau |
| Founders | Isilda Cerqueira Selena Caprichoso Paulo Sérgio Lima António De Armas Horácio Pacau |
| Founded | July 2, 2022 |
| Student wing | Student's Front |
| Youth wing | Youth's Front |
| Women's wing | Women's Front |
| Ideology | Right-wing populism Social conservatism Paretian nationalism Eucloscepticism Big tent |
| Political position | Center-right to far-right |
| Religion | Solarian Catholic |
| Euclean Affiliation | Movement for A New Democratic Euclea |
| Colors | Violet |
| Slogan | "Acima o Povo, Acima Paretia!" (Up with the people, up with Paretia!) |
| Câmara do Congresso | 191 / 360
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| Câmara da Assembleia | 62 / 120
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| Regional Presidencies | 3 / 4
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| Regional legislatures | 197 / 435
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| Euclean Parliament | 16 / 65
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Popular Victory (Luzelese: Vitória Popular Popular; Esmeiran: Victoria Popular Popular; Visegan: Vitoria Popular Popular; Tosuton: Victòria Popular), also known as ViPo or VicPop, is a right-wing populist political party in Paretia. It was created after the unification of the populist O Povo political alliance, made up of the Patron League and Independence Movement, formerly the Alt Party, in July of 2022. It is lead by Paretian Premier Isilda Cerqueira, and co-led by Selena Caprichoso and Horácio Pacau. It formed during the middle of the 2022 Paretian constitutional crisis. It is commonly referred to as a successor to the Patron League and mainly meant to function as a unification of the O Povo alliance.
The party takes heavy inspiration from the Tribune Movement in Etruria.
History
In 2022 the Patron League and Alt Party had been together in government for almost a year, both in the O Povo Alliance. The far-right policies began to sway away some members of the Alternative Party who began to criticize Premier Isilda Cerqueira and her government, as well as their party's leader Horácio Pacau. After the passing of the Jimeno Carazo Literature Law in June of 2022 many members of the Alt Party would meet with their leader over disagreements within the party beginning to grow.
A few days after the meetings the party announced plans to split into two new parties, one being centre-leaning populist and the other far-right populist. These became the National Reform Party and Independence Movement respectfully. The majority of the O Povo alliance fell, as only the Independence Movement stayed, with a small portion of it's members having left into the PRN. In late June they began to meet with Premier Cerqueira and the Patron League, as the two parties realized their platforms were extremely similar.
In July of 2022 the parties decided that the Independence Movement would not last as it was, deciding to merge the two parties into a new singular party. Premier Cerqueira stated that the Patron League had plans to rebrand in some fashion in the near future and that the merger was the perferct chance to do so, becoming the new Popular Victory party which united the right-wing populists in the country into a singular party.
Ideology
Paretian nationalism
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Nationalism is a core belief of Popular Victory, and has consistently had it's members state that alongside populism, it has been an integral stance of the party. The party believes that "Paretia comes before all others" on foreign issues, with the promotion of what the party calls "Paretia first" policies. Critics of the League have made comparisons of Paretias's nationalism to the Functionalist Paretian state ruled by Carlito Palmeira from 1925 to 1935. The party has denied these accusations, Selena Caprichoso has said that the comparisons are "disrespectful to the victims of the actual functionalist authoritarian state we all wish to forget."
Popular Victory has promoted various Paretian nationalist concepts such as one that they call "Nationalism of Sovereignty" (Nacionalismo de Soberania), which they believe that nationalism in Paretia is founded on the nation's struggle to unify and claim independence as a free nation against outside forces. This idea originated during the Euclean Spring and the Paretian Rervolutionary Conflict and rose to prominence during and between the Great War and the Solarian War. Using rhetoric that outside forces have continuously sought to subvert Paretian independence, and that the only way to fight against it is within nationalism and promoting Paretian culture.
This leads to the next tenet of Paretian nationalism in the party, "Protect the Culture" (Proteja a Cultura), a phrase created by Caprichoso in 2014 that believes, similarly to Nacionalismo de Soberania, that outside forces actively are trying to destroy Paretia's culture and make it more "malleable" by the elites. Popular Victory believes in promoting Solarian Catholicism and the idea the nations of Paretia are "children of the great Solarian Empire". Paretia believes in promotion of a unifying Paretian cultural identity to combat separatism while also protection the unique cultures of the many ethnicities of Paretia. VP Member Rafa Peixoto once stated that "Paretia is a nation, a nation of four united in kinship, we will support and protect each other through all time, that is Paretia's identity, that is who we are."
Economic policy
Tax reform
Infrastructure
Trade
Foreign policy
Euclean Community
Immigration
Defence
Social policy
Religion
The party considers Sotirianity, more particularly, Solarian Catholicism, as the national religion of Paretia, and is integral to the nation's culture.
In August 2021 after it's instatement as government, the LP passed a law stated that Solarian Catholic Sotirianity will become the official religion of Paretia. The country had previously been officially secular since the fall of Functionalist Paretia and the creation of the Republic of Paretia. The party followed by creating "minority faiths" to be recognized on a lower level, to ease controversy. After the Patron League began passing laws that greatly increased the relationship between church and state, such as enforcing prayer at schools and government meetings, allowing clergy to work in education, and added mandatory religious scripture classes to school curriculums. In 2021 the Patron government of Visega passed a law that allowed teachers to refuse to teach evolution theory due to faith.
Law and Order
Women's rights
LGBT
Disability rights
Paretian unionism
Direct democracy
Controversies
The name "Popular Victory" sparked controversy over it's use of the word Victory, a word commonly associated with the far-right novanist-functionalist New Nation of Paretia Party lead by Carlito Palmeira, the logo of the party was called the "Victory Emblem" featuring the latin word "Victoria" on it. As well as the motto of the party, "Acima o Povo, Acima Paretia", the phrase "Acima Paretia", meaning "Up with Paretia" is a common nationalist phrase that was used by the PNNP during their rule and later far-right functionalist groups.