People's Action
People's Action Action Populaire | |
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| Abbreviation | AP |
| Party leader | Hugo Lysandre Dellague |
| Founder(s) | Alphonse Mérain |
| Founded | 6 November 1896 |
| Headquarters | Port-Rouge, Bayave |
| Ideology | Progressivism Christian socialism Left-wing populism National syndicalism |
| Political position | Left-wing to Far-left |
| Colors | Red |
| Slogan | Amour, foi, loyauté Love, faith, loyalty |
| Anthem | Le fou rire |
The People's Action (Lysian : Action Populaire), also known as the AP, is a Florentian populist political party. It is by far the biggest party of Florentia regarding membership. It has been formed in 1896 as a reaction to the abuses of the landowners over the rurals, by Alphonse Mérain, a disciple of former Chancellor Eloïse Rougeau. While the party always boiled with revolutionary fervor as sign of discontent against the decentralised and aristocratic nature of the Confederation, the movement further radicalized since 2018, under Hugo Lysandre Dellague.
Name
The name People's Action represents the will of the party, since its foundation, to actively protect the "little people" against the abuses of the slaver nobility, as well as the percieved usurpation of power from the Emperor by said nobility.
The members of the party often refer themselves as "populists".
History
Origins and early years : 1885-1902
After the victory of the slaver aristocracy in the Florentian civil war (1878-1885), Chancellor Camille de Raihac organised the "White Terror". It is a short period (1885-1902) during which the Florentian government encouraged landowner abuses, lynching of the abolitionnist sympathisers, and tried to enforce a serfdom status on the peasantry (without success).
The People's Party grew out of smaller political groups created by populist and progressive figures, inspired by the works of former Chancellor Éloïse Rougeau, known for her progressive, left-wing populist and syndicalist policies. They quickly gathered support in a lower class traumatised by the violences of the civil war and the White Terror, and with a fresh souvenir of the rule of Rougeau.
The party was officially created in 1896, in Port-Rouge, Florentia, and abolitionnist journalist Alphonse Mérain got elected as its first President. However, they were allowed to run in state and confederal elections only in 1902, after Raihac's death.