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The '''Coscivian National Congress''' is a [[Caucus (Kiravian politics)|caucus]] of political parties and independents in the [[Federal Stanora]] organised around a platform affirming the political importance of [[Coscivian civilisation|Coscivian cultural identity]], {{wp|national conservatism|national conservative}} principles, {{wp|economic nationalism}}. The CNC is often described as right-wing by Occidental observers, though it is better described by its position relative to the other legislative cacuses: The Congress agenda is more {{wp|statism|étatist}}, centralist, and explicitly identitarian than the [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance]], and is far more supportive of a strong role for the state in the economy and less supportive of expanding international trade. Compared to the [[Caritist Social Union]] it has a more civilisational and nationalistic ethos than a religious one, and takes umbrage with the CSU's international humanitarianism, welcoming stance on immigration, and pro-Levantine sentiment. It has a more modernist and urban-industrial orientation than the [[Caucus of Justice]] and supports a much larger, stronger, and more centralised government and a more active foreign policy. Although it grew out of the anti-Kirosocialist National Renewal Movement, on most policy matters (particularly economics) the CNC finds itself closer to the Kirosocialist [[New Deal Alliance]] than to the other NRM caucuses, but rejects the Kirosocialist focus on class struggle in favour of national unity and opposes its goal of building a "socialist culture" and "socialist civilisation", preferring organic Coscivian culture as the basis of the nation.

For most of the Second Alignment (between the breakup of the NRM and the rise of the [[Labour Front of Kirav|LFK]]), the CNC found electoral success at the expense of the ever-declining [[New Deal Alliance]] (successors to the old [[Kirosocialist Party|Socialist Party]]), earning the support of working-class Coscivian voters in industrial areas hit hard by the economic shocks of liberalisation. These voters, who had either remained loyal to the  Kirosocialists after the Restoration or thrown back in with the NDA after the NRM's economic policies failed to deliver for them, were attracted to the CNC message of economic nationalism, national solidarity, and concern for the "left behind" communities of [[Three Kiravs Theory|Second Kirav]].

Coscivian Nationalists believe that the culture, history, and public institutions of the Kiravian Federacy are fundamentally Coscivian in character, that Kiravia is inseparable from the wider Coscivian world, and that a Coscivian cultural and civic identity is essential to Kiravia's survival and functioning as a nation. The CNC rejects cosmpolitanism and liberal multiculturalism, while at the same time celebrating the rich internal diversity of Coscivian civilisation and affirming the legal and social equality of the Federacy's "national minorities" (Kiravite Aboriginals, Celts, and Khars).

The current "third wave" of the Coscivian National movement began after the fall of [[Kirosocialism]] and the reversal of its isolationist and protectionist policies by the Shaftonist-Republican Alliance in order to encourage foreign trade and investment. This resulted in unprecedented exposure to Occidental media and material culture, as well as direct personal contact with Occidentals, and engendered fears among many that Coscivian civilisation would soon succumb to Occidentalisation and become part of a homogenised, globalist "world culture". Views of Occidental civilisation among Coscivian Nationalist politicians vary from the simple assertion that Occidental ways are for Occidentals while Coscivian ways are for Coscivians to the idea that Occidental civilisation is deeply flawed and morally inferior to Coscivian civilisation, or more extremely, the idea that Occidental civilisation is an active force for ill in the world. Anti-Occidentalism among CNC members and voters is also driven by opposition to the materialism, secularism, crass commercialism, and utilitarianism with which the Occident associated by sectors of the Kiravian public.

Coscivian Nationalists reject the idea that Occidentalisation is necessary for modernisation and economic development, and strongly support government investment in manufacturing, infrastructure, science, technology, and space exploration. Antimodernist and agrarian voters, while opposed to Occidentalisation, tend to prefer candidates affiliated with the traditionalist wing of the [[Caucus of Justice]].

Coscivian Nationalists support maintaining the Federacy's ethnically preferential and highly bureaucratic immigration system, believing that streamlining immigration and naturalisation procedures for Coscivian immigrants while actively limiting immigration by non-Coscivians is necessary to preserve Kiravia's Coscivian culture. This largely manifests itself in support for the status quo of Kiravian immigration policy, but some CNC members have taken harsher stances, seeking to roll back the comparatively liberal Mérovin- and Candrin-era reforms of long-term visa and permanent residency policies, impose greater restrictions on non-Coscivian groups (including entry bans on particular nationalities, even for tourism), or even ban non-Coscivian immigration altogether.

Many analysts, particularly foreign, have contrasted the anti-immigration rhetoric of the CNC with that of their analogues in other countries, pointing out that the anti-immigration plank of the Congress platform is "totemic rather than pragmatic", and that - unusually among industrialised countries - it tends to focus on white-collar rather than blue-collar immigrants, based on fears of trickle-down acculturation and malign Occidental influence in institutions, rather than the familiar nativist concerns of demographic displacement and labour competition. Rates of non-Coscivian immigration to Kiravia are actually rather low, due to geographic, regulatory, and cultural barriers; and while hostility toward immigrants among Kiravians certainly exists, immigrants tend to be attracted to the growing coastal metropoles of First Kirav, rather than the less prosperous Second Kirav areas where most CNC voters live.

Coscivian Nationalists are opposed to the expansion of [[Ænglish language]] education in public schools, and suggest diverting funding for Ænglish education to courses on [[Latin language|Latin]] and the [[Paulastran language]] instead.

The caucus' critics, particularly in the SRA and the reformist wing of the CR, assert that Coscivian Nationalist hardline positions against English education, public use of the Gregorian calendar, and temporary migration unnecessarily discourage trade and investment.

The Sarolluv Amendment is a proposed reform of the Kiravian federal system proposed by retired CNC Delegate D.I. Sarolluv of [[Kannur]]. If ratified, the Amendment would absorb the inhabited provinces of the Kiravian Collectivity into the Kiravian Federacy, abolish the themes, abolish the inner state/federal state/free state distinction, and set a 10-year horizon for elevating all inhabited non-state provinces (except the Canal District and Capital District) to statehood or annexing them to existing states, and adopt a {{wp|degressive proportionality|degressive proprtional}} formula for allocating Stanora seats among the states. Ordinary states would be uniform in their constitutional status and degree of self-governance. Autonomous states with a higher degree of self-governance would be elevated or created anew for the benefit of established non-Aboriginal, non-Coscivian peoples (National Minorities and Scheduled Minorities), and Aboriginal reserves would be reorganised as Autonomous Countyships. The Sarolluv Amendment is not officially part of the CNC platform but enjoys wide support within the caucus.

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