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CDI
The Caucus of Democrats and Independents is a in the Kiravian Stanora. Composed mainly of former members of the Shaftonist-Republican Alliance, the caucus describes itself as "a diverse and independent-minded caucus of problem-solvers", and is commonly described by the press as "the meeting of Delegates who are neither conservative nor socialist". Occidental analysts typically consider the CDI as centrist to centre-left.

In the current configuration of Kiravia's coalitional-presidentialist system, the CDI are part of the anti-administration camp, which is currently in the legislative minority.

The CDI originated as a working group and breakfast club within the SRA caucus called the Mimosa Group, made up of Delegates with a more liberal perspective on the Shaftonist-democratic political programme. A political conference, the Shaftonist Democratic Union, was organised along similar ideological lines in [YEAR], in response to a perceived "rightward" turn in the SRA/SRI and the policies of the Candrin administration. The SDU affirmed its loyalty to the SRA caucus and its member-parties continued to participate in the SRI, but the SDU only operated more and more independently over time, even changing its name to the Independent Democratic Union in [YEAR] and dropping any explicit commitments to the SRA and SRI later that year when it took on observers from outside the traditional Shaftonist-Republican column. Delegates affiliated with the IDU continued to sit with the SRA caucus and pro-administration camp, but by [YEAR] were understood to be functioning as an autonomous caucus for most purposes, as often happens in Kiravian politics. The formal break with the SRA was made after the Treaty of Electorsbourg, when the IDU-affiliated Delegates crossed over to the anti-administration camp, stating their opposition to a Kiravian neo-colonial presence in Crona and intention to vote against ratifying the treaty, and notified the Chancellor that they would thenceforth sit as the Union of Democrats and Independents.

Who is in it:

''In Stanora:'
 * Tea Party (Fariva) - former SRA, splintered from First Farivan Party
 * Civic Institutional Party (Kiygrava) - former SRA
 * Union Democratic Party/Democratic Movement Party (Æonaran states) - former RKC
 * Sky Blue Party (Kaskada) - former SRA
 * Scientific-Industrial Party (Xirya) - former SRA
 * Moderate Party (Bissáv) - former SRA
 * Independent Republican Party (Erinava) - former SRA

In State offices:
 * New Democratic Party (Niyaska) - idk.
 * Constructive Party (Ventarya) - former SRA
 * Constitutional Democratic Party
 * Citizenship Party
 * Public Communities Party (Kastera, Interlaken)
 * Yellow Apple Party (Vendée?)

Observers with regional office:
 * Pribraltar Freedom Party (also RKC observer)

Participation trophy holders:
 * Deletionist Party (Serikorda) - former LG, flipped non-inscrit after KFA merger
 * Wastani People's Party - former non-inscrit

Participation trophy observers:
 * Great Kirav Independence Party (also LFK observer)


 * Senatorialists and Parliamentarists

Name bank: Public Choice Party Public Interest Party Public Justice Party -- Opportunity Party Fair Shot Party Inclusive Republican Party Inclusionist Party Mergist Party

LFK
The Labour Front of Kirav - Kiravian Labour Parties (Ventaver Kiravsk - Kiravix Ventaplaiduya) is a caucus in the Federal Stanora associated with the Kiravian Labour Parties interstate conference of political parties. The LFK caucus is organised around a platform based on solidary economics (inspired heavily by Wittonian socialism) and opposition to closer economic and political integration between the Kiravian Federacy and Atrassic Crona.

Origins
The history of the LFK begins with the founding of the Elegian? Labour Party in 21XXX by Mâkupa Naymir, a member of the Elegia? state legislature with the [CSU party]. Elegia at the time was struggling economically due to the post-Kirosocialist economic liberalisation, particularly areas like Naymir's own constituency in County Bunghole, which was reeling from a string of plant closures. Naymir, a committed, had in his youth been an ardent activist against the Kirosocialist régime and a strong supporter of the National Renewal Movement, but also an advocate of comprehensive land reform and the cartel politics practiced by privileged ethno-social communities and aristocratic families in many parts of the country. As such, he had persisted in politics with a strong antipathy towards his colleagues from the Socialist Party of Elegia and the traditionalist-conservative Elegian Home Party. However, he found himself increasingly working across the aisle with members of these parties and against his putative allies in the SRA-aligned Rennovation party.

Decline after 21XYX
Naymir's death in 21XYX marked the beginning of a period of decline in the LFK as a national movement. Although some state parties remained competitive in their respective states' political scenes and new affiliates were established on the Eastern Seaboard, changing political conditions and a lack of clear leadership, vision, and direction from the interstate conference led most of the parties to adapt their platforms and local strategies independently. Most notably, the Etivéran Labour Party entered an electoral alliance with that state's SRA-affiliated parties, in a break with longstanding LFK tradition.

Ideological mantle
WitSoc with Coscivian characteristics and how that works.

The LFK is socially and culturally conservative, by both international and Kiravian measures.

Crona policy
The centrepiece of the contemporary LFK platform is opposition to economic and political integration between the Kiravian Federacy and Kiravian-governed territories on mainland Crona. It rejects the various proposals put forth for an "Atrassic Union" and for the incorporation of Cronan territories into the Kiravian Federacy proper. It has pledged to maintain customs and migration controls between the Federacy and Kiravian Crona, and to enact heavy restrictions on the entry of native Cronans to the Federacy. The LFK holds that barriers to the inflow of people and goods from Crona are necessary to protect Kiravian workers and domestic industries from cheap Cronan labour.

The LFK is not opposed to Kiravian neo-colonialism in Crona in principle, and has stated that an LFK administration would honour the Federacy's military, administrative, and humanitarian commitments on the continent while working toward a more "sustainable and people-centric overseas development model that is fair to ordinary people on both sides of the ocean." (sóstenaptix us plānoimdix dhevelotorsilver rív é leftix sasnarustondya ibipeśorê iosková.) Despite this being the official party line, many people with more explicit anti-colonial sentiments have rallied to the party, and there is a pronounced minority wing in favour of scaling back the Kiravian presence in Crona.

Contemporary diversity
Since 21XYY, opposition to Trans-Atrassic integration has taken centre-stage in the LKF, becoming its top policy priority and defining campaign plank.

Popular support
The LFK's core voter base are working-class people in Second Kirav and Third Kirav, especially those employed in industry, agriculture, and resource extraction. LFK parties and candidates perform most strongly in industrial and mining areas of Central, Southwestern, and Northwestern Kirav, as well as the Western and Eastern Highlands in federal elections. They do not perform well in Farravonia, the Míhanska Bay region, or the Northeast-Northeast.

The LFK does not currently have state affiliates in overseas regions of the Kiravian Federacy. A spokeswoman for the conference stated that this is not by design and that the conference would welcome affiliates from overseas states and territories.

Political Dynamics of the Stanora
The political dynamics of the Stanora are shaped by X main factors:


 * Coalitional presidentialism -


 * Party Incohesion - A relatively weak balance of centripetal forces (e.g. party structures and financing, procedural power) against centrifugal forces (committee power, diverging interests of state parties, STV) and legal limits on the institutional power of political groups make for a rather low level of caucus and coalition cohesion relative to most other national legislatures.

MSRP
Overt agenda: Professional, pragmatist centre-right to right-wing politics. Pro-growth, pro-corporate policies. Supportive of the social order but quiet on any cultural issues.

Covert agenda: Libertarian police state/corporate police state.

Post-Kirsoc non-ideological "party of power" in its states.