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Liberal Progressives[?]
This page contains information about the Liberal Progressives.
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Details
Nation[?]: Commonwealth of Lodamun (Lodamun)
Seats[?] in National Congress[?]: 0
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Description[?]:
| The Liberal Progressives support the idea of individual liberty. People should be free to decide about their own lives free from outrageous government intervention. The government should not intervene in the affairs of its citizens unless absolutely necessary. We hold the rights of our citizens sacred. However, the Liberal Progressives are a pragmatic party and do not struggle to find common ground with reasonable other parties. Foreign Affairs: The Liberal Progressives see an involvement in foreign affairs as a must for any nation that takes itself seriously. Opening up our country will provide our citizens and our companies with many business opportunities and will bring our nation more wealth. We therefore wish to see a more proactive stance of Lodamun in international affairs than is expressed currently. Internal Affairs: The Liberal Progressives would like to see the government excercise as little influence in individual citizen's lives as necessary. We seek devolution of responsibilities from the national government to local governments, in order to shrink the national government's size. Finance: The Liberal Progressives advocate budget cuts in most departments. Our vision of a small, yet efficient government means we can decrease the immense current tax burden on our citizens and increase their spending power. At the same time the government can save a lot of money by stopping wasteful spending. Defence: We have a vision of a dedicated military, well-equiped with the best weapons the private sector can provide. The military should consist of volunteers only and should garantuee a safe nation. We think militarily, the best way for Lodamun to survive is by crafting alliances with other states that can then each specialize in one area of defence. Justice: The Liberal Progressives stand for fair and equal justice for all, believing more in rehabilitation than in punishment of those who have committed crimes. At the same time, it should be clear that crime should never pay and criminals should not get off with a mere slap on the wrist. We oppose the death penalty as it takes away every single form of personal freedom a person has. Infrastructure and Transport We consider Infrastructure and Transport to be areas in which the free market can very well perform. Given certain quota by the government on how many people to transport and caps on the amount of money this can cost, the free market will fix our public transport. Health and Social Services: Although leftist parties tend to have Metzist leaning in this department, the Liberal Progressives can see their point of view. Health is a serious subject and good health is necessary for a free life. We do therefore not seek to privatise in this department, but merely to devolve these services to the local level. Education and Culture: Education is central to leading as good a life as possible and should therefore be accessible to everyone. Still, private schools should exist and be allowed to take on students with different preconditions than public schools do. They should also be allowed to shape their own curriculum, if it contains specific elements at least. Science and Technology: Lodamun should be an international beacon of science and progress through private efforts at innovation. The government can support these private efforts financially, but should have nothing to do with the contents of the research. Food and Agriculture: Considering Lodamun has some of the best agricultural regions of the world, we should not neglect this part of our country. Although farming subsidies should not be necessary, this is a large portion of our population upon which the rest relies and ought not to be forgotten about. Environment and Tourism: Tourism is an essential part of our nation, for we have a very diversified climate and many interesting thins for people to see. Lodamun should profile itself well internationally, in order to attract more tourists to boost our economy. Environment is a matter that cannot be ignored and we'll need the brightest minds of Lodamun to properly innovate to overcome environmental challenges. Trade and Industry: These sectors of our economy are too heavily regulated. We want to change that to make our economy competitive again. Lower taxes and decreased government intervention will do the job. Party Leaders: Bill Murray - 4398-4407 Bill founded the party and led her to three consecutive election victories. Nevertheless dissatisfied with the continued refusal by the other parties to rule together with the ever increasing amount of Liberal Progressive members of the Presidium, Murray resigned in the wake of the 4407 cabinet formation and quit politics altogether. Walter McCallister - 4407-4419 Despite original doubts about having a relatively unknown party leader with distinctly more leftist leanings than Murray, the majority of the party eventually rallied behind McCallister. After the first election under his leadership, the Liberal Progressives emerged as the largest party in the Presidium and McCallister was hailed as a new Liberal hero, his leadership of the party now unchallenged. He proposed the forming of a progressive cabinet together with the Progressive Socialist Party. After ruling for four years and even helping the party grow after the popular Progressive Front cabinet ended, McCallister stepped down as party leader to allow for a newer generation to take the wheel. Zoey Rosefield - 4419-4422 The successor to the wildly popular McCallister, Rosefield has massive boots to fill. A compromise candidate between the more vocal economic right wing of the party and the more moderate ‘green’ wing of the party, Rosefield’s rise to prominence has by no means been uncontroversial. The right wing of the party, that had long been held from power by McCallister’s appointing of fellow moderates to prominent party positions, has put her in the unenviable position of uniting a fractured party. The green wing want to continue McCallister’s more moderate approach to politics and there are even a few within the party advocating a sharp turn to the left, though these voices are few and far between. Lastly, Rosefield heavily relied upon the votes of women in the party to support her candidacy, how she will manage in a party still firmly dominated by men will yet have to be discovered. After the arrival of several new parties in the Presidium, the party was prepared for a loss in seats, but in the 4422 elections, the Liberal Progressives lost almost 100 seats. Rosefield was ousted after a vote of no confidence from the right wing of the party was broadly supported in the party. Bella May - 4422-4426 May was a dark-horse candidate in the election for a new party leader after the vote of no confidence in Rosefield had passed. After barely reaching the required 150 signatures of party leaders throughout the country, she successfully campaigned on a grassroots ‘get-out-the-vote’ basis to raise both turnout and support amongst young members of the party. In the runoff voting, she managed to achieve a whopping 42% of the votes in the first round, winning the second round with a smashing 73% of the vote. Her victory is a massive upset in the party as the right wing Economic Liberals have effectively taken over the party, ousting many of Rosefields former supporters from positions of power. Although after May’s first elections in office as party leader, the right prevailed in the Lodamese elections, the Liberal Progressives scores their worst election result in history. May was forced from power by a group of prominent party members, after her own supporters gave up on her. Terrence Tailor was appointed to her function ad interim whilst the party organised a congress to elect a new leader. Terrence Tailor (ad interim) - 4426-4428 Tailor was a well-known party member when appointed by the board of the Liberal Progressives. Yet, although his had been a prominent career within the party, holding elected office twice and once being on the shortlist for potential Liberal Progressive Foreign Minister (although that post was eventually held by a PSP-member), he had never been affiliated with one of the many factions in the party. As such, the party leadership saw him as the perfect leader at a time of increased internal partisanship. A uniting force, like the previous two party leaders had failed to be. After half a term as party leader, he gave the reigns of power over to Maynard Rand. Maynard Rand - 4428- Rand was a fairly unkown, young member of the Presidium for the Liberal Progressives. He was known for being the former leader of the youth-wing, the Young Progressives, and for being the youngest board member ever of a non-governmental bank. Maynard is known for drawing massive crowds in going around the country and proclaiming a Liberal Progressive platform that 'works for everyone'. In a surprise upset, shortly after he took the position, Maynard opened up talks about fusing with the PSP and proposed to let the Liberal Progressives be ‘the liberal wing of the progressive party’, resigning from the Presidium and the government in one fell swoop. |
Ministries
This party is not part of the national cabinet.
Political Positions
| Ideology | Position | Visibility | Coherency |
| Centralization | unitarist-leaning | excellent | perfect |
| Civil Rights | moderate permissive | excellent | perfect |
| Ecology | moderate environmentalist | excellent | perfect |
| Foreign Relations | convinced internationalist | excellent | perfect |
| Government Responsibilities | small government-leaning | excellent | perfect |
| Market | regulator-leaning | excellent | perfect |
| Military | convinced pacifist | excellent | perfect |
| Morality | convinced progressive | excellent | perfect |
| Religion | convinced secular | excellent | perfect |
Affiliations
This party is a member of the following organizations:
Election Results
History Table
| Month | Votes | Total Votes | Votes (%) | Votes (%) (+) | Seats | Total Seats | Seats (%) | Seats (+) |
| May 4401 | 4,458,876 | 44,184,389 | 10.09 | +10.09 | 63 | 599 | 10.52 | +63 |
| May 4405 | 5,684,340 | 47,678,943 | 11.92 | +1.83 | 78 | 599 | 13.02 | +15 |
| April 4407 | 8,523,941 | 45,370,715 | 18.79 | +6.87 | 108 | 599 | 18.03 | +30 |
| April 4411 | 12,000,232 | 54,454,151 | 22.04 | +3.25 | 131 | 599 | 21.87 | +23 |
| October 4414 | 19,162,498 | 62,854,592 | 30.49 | +8.45 | 182 | 599 | 30.38 | +51 |
| October 4418 | 18,393,802 | 58,047,346 | 31.69 | +1.20 | 193 | 599 | 32.22 | +11 |
| October 4422 | 10,558,875 | 62,961,211 | 16.77 | -14.92 | 101 | 599 | 16.86 | -92 |
| October 4426 | 5,943,938 | 59,347,639 | 10.02 | -6.75 | 58 | 595 | 9.75 | -43 |
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Legislation
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Legislative Agenda
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Voting Record
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