Republican Nationalist Party (the Cape)

The Republican Nationalist Party (Cape Coscivian: Parduv Restarka Nationalista) is the founding and ruling political party of the Federacy of the Cape. The RNP currently holds 377 out of 503 (or 74.9%) seats in the National Stanera and has been the of the republic since the re-establishment of democracy in 1951.

Founded in 1869 as a resistance party by Melvyn Kalma, the RNP grew to represent the Cape people as a united front during the Cape War of Independence. In 1871 the party declared itself a political organization, and became the founding party of the Federacy of the Cape. It led a period of until 1931, when it narrowly won its first free elections against the Socialist Party of the Cape. Following the military coup that established the National Reclamation Government in 1933 and the failed ADPR-supported communist putsch which sparked it, the RNP was dissolved as with every other political organization. Since the re-establishment of democracy and the party's refounding in 1951, it has won a ruling majority in every single parliamentary election. It competes today against the opposition Civic Democratic Party and the United Conservative Party.

The RNP is the only Cape party that practices intra-party democracy, with over 40% of Cape citizens voting in its quadrennial open s, choosing candidates for both the Prime Executure and local parliamentary representatives. The Republican National Congress, however, remains the highest body of the RNP. It is elected by the party's official members and chooses the first secretary and approves candidates to compete for the Prime Executure.

The party's guiding ideology is Restarkism, and is seen today as, , , and. A primarily party, a majority of RNP politicians have voiced support for the  movement,, and. Although the RNP has no international affiliation, it maintains connections with a wide variety of parties and groups; from the Kiravian right-wing Coscivian National Congress to the parties of the Pelaxian left.