Progressive Unity Party
| Progressive Unity Party | |
|---|---|
| File:Progressive Unity Party.png | |
| Leader | Rachel Berry |
| Founded | 26th May 1978 |
| Headquarters | Epping, Malgrave |
| Youth wing | Youth Progressive League |
| Newspaper | Progressive Daily |
| Anthem | Solidarity Forever (official) The Red Flag (unofficial) |
| Ideology | Progressivism Eugenics (Former) |
| Political position | Left |
| Official colours | Pink |
| House of Commons | 262 / 500
|
| Local Government | 9,508 / 23,053
|
| Website | http://www.progressiveunityparty.ms |
The Progressive-Unity Party is a left-wing political party in the Malgrave. It is currently the largest political party in the House of Commons and holds control over a large number of local governances.
History
The Progressive Unity Party was officially formed on the 26th of May 1978 by the merger of the Progressive Party and the Unity Party. In early 1970's election results for the Unity Party had proven to be extremely disappointing and it was getting close to four decades since the party had last elected a Prime Minister into office, the Progressive Party at the time was gaining good results in local government elections and although they were a growing presence on the national ballot voters perceived them as lacking experience and being too small for national government. During several meetings of top party officials in Epping it was decided that as both parties share fairly similar ideas that the best course of action would be to do what the Conservative and Action Parties did several years ago and merge together in order to create a new political force in the country and although the deal was officially agreed to much earlier it was decided by the newly formed leadership of the party that the best time for naming for announcing the official creation of the party would be the 26th of May in order to fall in line with the historical conference of Asola.
Political Platform
In economic terms the Progressive-Unity Party official supports a version of the social market economy, with a strong private sector involving both national and international businesses (including workers cooperatives and workers self-managed enterprises) competing together in a well-regulated economy in order to provide the consumer with the cheapest quality products, provide steady economic growth and support a high standard of living while maintaining workers rights. At the same time, the PUP also supports the current levels of nationalisation and are dedicated to stopping any move towards privatisation. Internal party divides give different reasons for the supported nationalisation with more nationalist portions of the party claiming that important sectors like energy, transportation and infrastructure construction cannot be handled by foreign capitalists and the more centrist and liberal in the party claiming that such sectors of the economy are designed to provide a service to the populace over excessive profits. The Progressive Unity Party also support what they call a fair tax in which the wealthiest citizens and corporations pay an increased amount of tax compared to the poorest in society and the middle class.
On other issues the PUP is also incredibly liberal, on social issues the party supports the theory of 'total equality in which all races, classes, genders, sexualities, species and religions are treated with equal regard and granted the same common rights, for those reasons they support the marriage, adoption, anti-discrimination and anti-hate speech laws dictated in the 1983 Equalities Act, the first act to codify protections for the LGBTQIA+ community.
On matters of foreign policy, the PUP supports the policy of non-alignment maintaining relations with countries regardless of their political background, although that does not apply to nations with far-right administrations or self-proclaimed states that practice slavery. The PUP charter also maintains a link to non-interventionism and supports the idea of maintaining a strong defensive military force to protect the country from invasion, support global humanitarian missions and defend crucial allies from invasion, despite this non-intervention clause the PUP gladly supported Prime Minister Rachel Berry when she announced Operation Infinite Reach and have since declared it a global humanitarian mission to get around the issues of the party charter.