List of political parties in Azmara
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Parties with national representation
Parties with provincial representation
Parties with local representation
Former parties
Party logo | Party name | First leader | Last leader | Establishment | Dissolution | Ideology | |
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Progress Party Forþgaanenpartii |
Mikel Hankssun |
Þurisas Leifssun |
1855 | 1905 | |||
Formed in 1855 in order to advocate for further social reform to create an Azmaran nation-state after the revolution, the Progress Party was a radical-liberal party advocating for universal education, protections of civil liberties, separation of church and state, free trade and protection of private property, and for the creation of a cohesive national culture for all Azmarans. The party was dominant for much of the early years of the republic, gaining support from the growing industrial working classes and the professional middle classes, yet towards the end of its life started to decline as the working-class turned to socialist options and the party moved to the political centre through the process of sinistrisme, eventually merging with other liberals into the Gold Flame alliance in 1905. | |||||||
Alliance for the Commonwealth Binden for de Gemenwelþ |
Jorś Wilhjâlmssun |
Þurisas Leifssun |
1855 | 1923 | |||
The Alliance for the Commonwealth was founded by Jorś Wilhjâlmssun in opposition to what he perceived as a corruption of the republican movement by the Progress Party. The party drew heavily on the personal popularity of Wilhjâlmssun, who had served as a resistance leader throughout the Revolution and as a result became known as the Jorśites in popular conversation. The party had very different views as to nation-building than the Progress Party, opposing the party's attempts to make a cohesive culture and take political power away from the countryside, believing that the nation should be united by its Amendist Sotirian faith and by a strong, charismatic, democratically elected leader. The party thus gained large support from the countryside, being voted for by farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, traders and artisans, and became a major force in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before merging with other right-wing forces into the National Coalition in 1923. | |||||||
Northern Alliance Nordbinden |
Aleksaander fan Westhaaltun |
1856 | 1869 | ||||
The Northern Alliance was founded to represent an alternative to the Azmaran liberal nationalism offered by other political factions in the early republic, advocating for the creation of a democratic republic of consisting of Werania, Sunrosia, Azmara, Buckland and Wealdland, saying that the cultural similarities between the five nations warranted the creation of a common nation-state. Politically, it supported many of the reforms of the Progress Party, yet opposed attempts at creating a cohesive culture in Azmara as it saw this as an attempt to define Azmara separately from its Weranic brothers, and emphasised equality between Amendists and Catholics. The party competed for a similar support base to the Progress Party, yet failed to win over large amounts of support and wound up in 1869. | |||||||
Party of the Right Partii âb de Reht |
Aansgaar van Ruyksvaal |
1856 | 1861 | ||||
The Party of the Right was formed by representatives in the first Folksmot who did not support the newly-created republic, with many of its members supporting the reinstatement of the Azmaran monarchy and the retention of the estates of the realm. However, the group failed to win much support from the growing urban and middle classes or the industrial working classes, and the only seats that it managed to win were in rural areas which had benefitted from the concept of noblesse oblige. However, in 1861 the party was banned on account of its aims to end the Commonwealth, and its leadership arrested in a move known as the Republican Ascendancy. | |||||||
Free-minded Party Friiþenkenpartii |
Loki Leifssun |
1884 | 1897 | ||||
The Free-minded Party was founded by intellectuals and Amendist pastors who were concerned about the plight of the industrial working-class, pointing to the poor conditions many of them lived in and dissenting from the Progress Party, which had sided with the enterprising factory owners on many issues. It attempted to establish a government safety net to guarantee basic living conditions for workers, and pass a charter guaranteeing fundamental rights to workers. Making a key breakthrough in 1885 among working-class neighbourhoods of large industrial cities such as Aalmsted, Jorś-Hylager and Kyningsmer, it sided with the Progress Party on many political and constitutional issues while negotiating with other factions to pass its reforms, being successful in regulating working hours and establishing basic social insurance and poor relief programs. However, suffered after 1894 as the Azmaran Section of the Workers' International (ADAA) began to compete for the same support base and after a disappointing 1897 result the party dissolved as some of its members returned to the Progress Party and others merged with the ADAA | |||||||
Azmaran Section of the Workers' International Azmaariś Daal âb de Arbeider-Alþyydlyk |
Yuri Nemtsov |
Jorśena Freisdohter |
1891 | 2003 | |||
The Azmaran Section of the Workers' International (ADAA) was formed in Heuthenberg by Yuri Nemtsov and dockyard workers in order to advocate for Nemtsov's vision of a workers' revolution to bring about a society based on common ownership of resources and rule by the working class and trade unions. The party soon began to compete against the Free-minded Party for urban working-class support, quickly winning the support of much of the industrial working-class and entering the Folksmot in the 1893 Heuthenberg by-election. In 1921, the party emerged as the largest in Azmara and formed the country's first socialist-led government with the National Association and dissident members of Gold Flame, yet would suffer splits as in 1923 a nationalistic splinter in the Azmaran Socialist Party crossed the floor, and in 1925 a majority of its membership left the party to form the Workers' Party with the National Association in order to provide a united left-wing voice. The rump party continued on as a representative of the far-left, gaining some working-class support, before merging in 2003 with New Deal to form the Socialist Party. | |||||||
National Association Þyydiś Bund |
Reverend Lorenc Lorencssun |
Aleks Freissun |
1909 | 1925 | |||
The National Association was formed in 1909 by a group of priests and social workers who were concerned by the working-class drift towards the ADAA and believed that social reform to ensure equality and a decent standard of living for the working-classes was necessary to prevent this. The party therefore supported generous reforms that they believed to be inspired by the social teachings of Jesus Sotirias, advocating for significant changes to healthcare and housing to make them more accessible to the working classes and the restructuring of factories and other industrial facilities to give workers a say in their administration. The party offered support to the early 20th century Gold Flame governments and the progressive reforms that they made, and after seeing their support explode in the wake of the Great Collapse, formed a government with the ADAA and dissident Liberals between 1921 and 1923 in which they introduced basic unemployment insurance. In 1925 the party merged with the bulk of the ADAA to form the Workers' Party as a united left-wing opposition. | |||||||
Party of the Azmaran Middle Class Partii âb den Azmaariś Midelstand |
Maþis Hankssun |
1914 | 1923 | ||||
The Party of the Azmaran Middle Class was formed in 1914 after the Great Collapse by members of Azmara's traditional middle class of small business owners, craftsmen, farmers and artisans who felt that the Alliance for the Commonwealth no longer represented their interests. A right-wing political organisation, it was strictly opposed to communism and other forms of socialism, and advocated an economic policy advocating both a distrust of excessive government intervention and large corporations, while wishing for government intervention to prop up struggling small enterprises and for protectionist tariffs to protect these enterprises from foreign competition. The party supported the Alliance for the Commonwealth in government between 1918 and 1921, and in 1923 it merged with the Alliance and the Azmaran Socialist Party to form the National Coalition. | |||||||
New Liberals Ny-Forþgaaners |
Jorś Helmutsson |
1922 | 1924 | ||||
The New Liberals were formed members of Gold Flame who supported the ADAA-ÞB government of 1921-3 after being expelled from the party. The party, while still supporting property rights and markets, was a strong advocate for civil liberties and for welfare reforms, and sponsored many of the new government's attempted reforms. It later merged with independents who had left Gold Flame over opposition to the co-operation with the National Coalition 1923-4, and other liberal forces in the country, forming The Radicals to contest the 1924 election. | |||||||
Azmaran Socialist Party Azmaariś Sośalistiśpartii |
Peitur Jonssun |
1923 | 1923 | ||||
The Azmaran Socialist Party was a short-lived splinter from ADAA inspired by the Weranic Syndicalist Union, rejecting the class conflict narrative of the latter in favour of a revolution from above and class collaborationism in order to overcome capitalism and advocating for a strong Azmaran nation. While a very small political force, it had a major impact on Azmaran politics as its members teamed up with the Alliance for the Commonwealth, Gold Flame and the Party of the Azmaran Middle Class to oust the ADAA-led government, later merging with the Alliance and the Party to form the National Coalition. | |||||||
National Coalition Þyydiś Samening |
Þurisas Siimunssun |
1923 | 1933 | ||||
The National Coalition was formed in 1923 as a result of a merger of the Alliance for the Commonwealth, the Azmaran Socialist Party and the Party for the Azmaran Middle Class to consolidate anti-communist political organisations within Azmara, initially forming a government with Gold Flame. However, the party managed to win a majority in 1924 by unifying the right-wing vote and appealing to both middle and working class voters, and formed a centralised government focused on welfare reform, anti-trade union policies, Azmaran cultural unity and family values. The National Coalition government also entered the Great War on the Entente side, and over the course of the war the party became increasingly authoritarian, suppressing dissent and suspending elections. However, war losses, food shortages and the militarisation of industrial workspaces led to the 1932 General Strike, which caused the government's downfall and replacement by an interim coalition of other parties. The party fractured after the 1933 election, in which it suffered a heavy defeat to the newly-formed Workers' Party. | |||||||
Farmers' Party Buurenspartii |
Aarne Hermanssun |
Mâþijas Hankssun |
1934 | 1969 | |||
The Farmers' Party was formed out of some of the remnants of the National Coalition by more moderate members, who distanced themselves from some of the more authoritarian tendencies of the government, hoping to provide a new voice for the right-wing of Azmaran politics. Sceptical of the welfare state and nationalisation policies of the Workers' Party-Radical government, they advocated for a protectionist economic policy focused on small businesses and traditional social values. The party was also fairly isolationist, opposing the United Nations of Euclea and the Euclean Community. It placed second in the 1935, 1938 and 1941 elections, yet it failed to oust the incumbent government. Furthermore, their opposition to the creation of the Euclean Community would lead to their downfall, as the party's calls for withdrawal from the organisation failed to catch on and its support plummeted. After losing their electoral representation in 1960, the party eventually dissolved in 1969. |