Natechun
National Technocratic Union Natechun Liên minh Kỹ trị Quốc gia | |
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| Chairman | Đặng Thế Phương |
| General Secretary | Trần Liễng Tâm Han |
| Founded | 19 February 2000 |
| Merger of | Letrinhist Party, Technocratic Alliance, Mandate for an Educated Mass |
| Headquarters | Natechun Central Số 112, Q.5, Cao Khoát, Quenmin |
| Think tank | |
| Student wing | University Technocrats |
| Youth wing | Young Smarties |
| Membership | 3,586,049 |
| Ideology | Majority: |
| Political position | Big tent |
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| Seats in the Supreme Assembly | 376 / 1,810
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The National Technocratic Union (Quenminese: Liên minh Kỹ trị Quốc gia; Abbv. LKQ), recognized commonly as Natechun, is a Quenminese big tent political party merged from three preceding technocratic parties. From the 2016 general election, Natechun is the largest party in the Supreme Assembly, retaining 376 out of 1,810 seats. The current Chairman is Đặng Thế Phương, and the current General Secretary Trần Liễng Tâm Han, of who is serving as the state's incumbent Prime Minister.
During the early 1970s, three technocratic parties were formed as a means of contending against the Yellow Dragon-Nationalist Party government of Đỗ Kim Ngữ; those were the Letrinist Party, the Technocratic Alliance, and the Mandate for an Educated Mass. As part of the Tự Do Movement, they challenged the said government's rigid social and deficient economic policies, and pushed for more egalitarian initiatives and measures that promote and protect civil liberties. However, given the Letrinist Party's advocacy for the eponymous political philosophy, which espouses technocracy and pragmatism alongside civil libertarianism, the parties were often in friction with the more "pure" libertarian parties, such as the Libertarian Free Union and the Civic League, and the more rigid technocratic parties. In the 1973 general election, under a political coalition named the Letrinist League, the three parties won a total of 23 seats in the Supreme Assembly, and they have continued to gain an increasingly firm powerbase overtime. However, strife fueled by ideological preferences from each party during the mid-1980s threatened to tear the alliance apart, which contributed to their languishing performance in the subsequent elections. On 19 February 2000, all three parties made a unanimous decision to merge together to form the present-day party as it is currently known.
In its comprehensive ideological standpoint, Natechun upholds the tenets and policies of a general technocracy. Regarding political position, it showcases itself on a big tent stance. Alongside this, the party advocates techno-progressivism by observing the technological progress Quenmin has exerted since the mid-1970s and implicating its beneficial changes. Nevertheless, distinct factions have emerged, which fluctuated the views of the party; the dominating party faction at present time is the Populists, which advocates for fiscal conservatism, protection of small businesses and regulation of their larger counterparts.