Commonwealth Union (Urcea)

The Commonwealth Union was the second largest political party in the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea during its existence. The Commonwealth Union's main opponent in Urcea was the older National Pact.

The party originated as moderate supporters of the program of Gréagóir FitzRex during the latter portion of the Red Interregnum, beginning as an institutional reformist (with respect to voting) and party, positions it held until the Second Great War. The party was not republican during this period, but held individual monarchs in suspicion. During and after the war, the party is viewed as reconciling itself to the Monarchy and redeveloping its historic political positions within the context of organicism. As opposed to the National Pact, the Commonwealth Union began to espouse a more economic policy and also believed in a more active foreign policy outside the Levantine Union. After the Great War, the party largely became supporters of the and became a  party in opposition to the economic liberalism of the National Pact. Fissures began to form in the party following the rise of Michael Witte, splitting the party into "big tent centrist" faction, the left-wing "Urcean mode Marxists" party, and the Wittonian Socialist faction. The party dissolved as part of the 2015 Urcean political realignment and is considered to have been legally succeeded by the Union for National Solidarity founded by the Wittonian faction.

History
The Commonwealth Union had its roots as "FitzRex's Men", a loose coalition of members of the Concilium Daoni elected in 1895 who aligned themselves with the reform efforts of Gréagóir FitzRex. The Union would soon be defined by its opposition to more radical socialist efforts to establish a Urcean Republic, ensuring their survival after the Red Interregnum. The party would go on to win control of the Daoni in 1905 and not surrender it until 1930, and it hold it again from 1950 to 2020 with only fifteen years of National Pact control in between.