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The '''Popular Democratic Front''' is a [[Caucus (Kiravian politics)|caucus]] in the Kiravian [[Federal Stanora]] made up of political parties and independents promoting a common platform of {{wp|socialism|socialist}} policies drawn mostly from the [[Kirosocialism|Kirosocialist]] tradition. The NDA was organised in the wake of the National Renewal Movement to promote cooperation among the numerous splinter parties and factions claiming the legacy of the defunct Kirosocialist Party. Despite some electoral support in areas where Kirosocialist policies had been popular and where economic liberalisation had not been kind to local industries, the NDA failed to mount an effective opposition to liberalisation, and was gradually edged out from most of its support base by the [[Caritist Social Union]] and [[Coscivian National Congress]]. From 21189 until 21203, the NDA was a rather minor presence in federal politics, with its share of seats in the Stanora decreasing in each election, but some of its member parties retained varying degrees of power and influence in the politics of certain states. Since 21203, NDA affiliates have launched an electoral resurgence at the state level and begun increasing their federal representation.
The '''Popular Democratic Front''' is a [[Caucus (Kiravian politics)|caucus]] in the Kiravian [[Federal Stanora]] made up of political parties and independents promoting a common platform of {{wp|socialism|socialist}} policies drawn mostly from the [[Kirosocialism|Kirosocialist]] tradition. The PDF was organised after passage of the [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|Anti-Party Law]] as the successor to the People's Alliance, which had previously formed to take up the mantle of the [[Kirosocialist Party]] after its dissolution.  


The Communist Party of the Kiravian Federacy and the Existential Humanist Party (Marxist), while not members of the NDA caucus, do have formal relations with it and coöperate with it on many initiatives. The Communist Party of Great Kirav rejects coöperation with the NDA and CPKF, which it has denounced as reformist and revisionist.
<!-- Despite some electoral support in areas where Kirosocialist policies had been popular and where economic liberalisation had not been kind to local industries, the PDF failed to mount an effective opposition to liberalisation, and was gradually edged out from most of its support base by the [[Caritist Social Union]] and [[Coscivian National Congress]]. From 21189 until 21203, the PDF was a rather minor presence in federal politics, with its share of seats in the Stanora decreasing in each election, but some of its member parties retained varying degrees of power and influence in the politics of certain states. Since 21203, PDF affiliates have launched an electoral resurgence at the state level and begun increasing their federal representation. -->


==Platform==
==Platform==
Provided below is the official common platform of the NDA for the 21206 federal election:
{{Cquote|We, the Popular Democratic Front, are united in our mission to liberate the Kiravian People from exploitation and domination by élite interests, establish social control of the means of production from above - through the political process - and from below - through labour organisation and workers’ self-management, democratise and equalise the enjoyment of social goods; and protect the productive classes, commons, and natural environment through a robust, capable, and transparent public sector.
|author=
*Establishment of a {{wp|socialist market economy}}.
|source=Mission Statement of the Popular Democratic Front
*Nationalisation of the Kiravian oil & gas industry, marine shipping, telecommunications, alcoholic beverage distribution, and railways
}}
*Implementation of a single-payer public healthcare system implemented in each Kiravian federal subject, with the federal government directly financing healthcare services in autonomous Urom areas and in dependencies too small to support their own healthcare programmes
===Near-Term Objectives===
*Eradication of urban homelessness, slums, rural vagrancy, and substandard rural housing through an aggressive ten-year project of federally-financed public housing expansion  
Provided below is the official common platform of the PDF for upcoming electricians and legislative cycles:
*Withdrawal from the [[Cronan Unified Defence Agreement]] and the [[Kilikas Area Treaty Initiative]]
 
*Nationalisation of all internet service providers, internet exchange points, and other network infrastructure, aggressively developing rural broadband, and guaranteeing internet access to all Kiravians
*Nationalise the Kiravian energy sector, mineral and forest resources, railways, airlines, telecommunications infrastructure, and flannel cloth industry
*Restructuring labour negotiations nationwide to a tripartite model mediated by the government, as already exists in [[Devahoma]], [[Vôtaska]], and [[Intravia]]
*Restore public responsibility for housing and utilities, expand public housing, and scale user fees for municipal services according to household income.
*Inclusion of the right to strike and the right to unionise in the [[Statute of Liberties]]
*Equalise health outcomes through a federally-financed, provincially-administered single-payer public healthcare system
*A policy of gradual {{wp|import substitution}} for steel, automobiles, heavy machinery, furniture, plastics, and other select goods, achieved through subsidies and protective tariffs/quotas
*Eradicate urban homelessness, slums, rural vagrancy, and substandard rural housing through a ten-year project of federally-financed social housing expansion
*Closure of the [[Crona|Cronan]] colonies to foreign trade
*Reïntroduce price controls for essential goods
*Increased investment in nuclear energy, scientific research, and space exploration
*Establish a more robust and redistributive tax regime over financial transactions to curb speculation and manage negative externalities.
*Monetary reform - Scaling back neoliberal monetarist reforms and allowing the [[saar]] to trade only within a narrow band determined by the [[Reserve Bank of Kirav]]; Establishing an inflation target for the RBK set by the Government.
*Aggressively develop rural broadband to guarantee internet access for all Kiravians
*Establishment of a national development bank
*Restructure labour negotiations nationwide to a government-mediated tripartite model
*Adden of the right to strike and the right to unionise in the [[Statute of Liberties]]
*Center employment and domestic productivity in trade policy
*Stop economic integration and travel liberalisation with [[Mid-Atrassic Crona]]
*Increase investment in nuclear energy, scientific research, and space exploration
*Set a government-mandated inflation target for the [[Reserve Bank of Kirav|RBK]]
*Return to {{wp|armed neutrality}} with a moratorium on overseas military deployments; withdrawal from the [[League of Nations]] and independence for Kiravian League mandates.
 
===Ideology===
The party identifies [[Kiravian Marxist philosophy]], {{wp|Arab socialism|Coscivian social-nationalism}}, and {{wp|Breakfast burrito|rGyanarajsism}} as the theoretical foundations of its ideological system. Although it adopts an explicit statement of ideological principles and its institutions are governed by and involved in continuing ideological studies, the PDF explicitly follows a "close {{wp|popular front}}" strategy, aiming to unite the Kiravian Left and counteract the "fissile tendency of proletarian and people's parties to sunder over secondary and tertiary disagreements", deferring application of the finer points of its particular broad-church Kirosocialist manifesto until after the "restoration of bourgeois domination of Kiravia has been countered effectively by the collective action of the working class."
 
==Currants==
[[File:Ribes rubrum a1.jpg|thumb|''Ribes rubrum'', long used as a symbol of the Kiravian Left]]
 
Political analysts often speak of four coëxisting ‘currents’ in the PDF that are identifiable with its different internal factions, voter blocs, and rhetorical approaches.
 
*A '''dark red current''' ( ''ulsihūriruor'' ) deeply committed to the legacy of the old Kirosocialist Party and the Kiravian Union, critical of the present constitutional order, and appealing to Kirosocialist nostalgia and hard {{wp|Anticapitalism|anti-capitalist sentiment}}. The dark-red current draws support from aging loyalists of the old regime, residents of [[Three Kiravs Model|Second Kirav]] industrial towns ill-served by market reforms, and certain ethnic communities.  This current's political "brand", so to speak, is often referred to pejoratively as “burnt-brick socialism”, alluding to its adherents’ ideological inflexibility, the {{wp|urban decay}} characteristic of its electoral strongholds, and the social background of many of its supporters (brickburning was traditionally a craft reserved to marginalised castes). Party cadre belonging to the deep-red current believe that theoretical rigour and conserving Marxist roots and Devinist methods of Kirosocialism are important, even if the salience of such questions has become obscure in today's Kiravia; the attitudes of its voter base are characterised by {{wp|left-wing populism}} and nostalgia for the Kiravian Union.
 
*A '''bright red current''' ( ''rensihūriruor'' ) locating itself the Kirosocialist tradition and adhering to Kirosocialist (rather than {{wp|Liberal socialism|liberal-socialist}}) ideology, but adapting to post-reunification developments with a focus on near-term objectives and mainstream electability. The bright-red current appeals more to the metropolitan working class of First Kirav, and tends to emphasise humanitarian concerns (such as housing, public safety, healthcare), public services, and good governance in the face of corporate corruption. Bright-red sections of the PDF may take inspiration from [[Kirosocialism#212th century|Kirosocialism of the 212th century]], Kirosocial democracy, {{wp|Arab socialism|Coscivian social-nationalism}}, or other theoretical schools. Some provincial and municipal parties taking a bright-red approach have sought to portray themselves as "socialists for growth" and associate themselves with the image of socialist mayors like [[Cities of Kiravia#Denisar|Denisar]]'s M.K. Stornoğuvin who are perfectly comfortable courting foreign investors to create local jobs and grow the tax base.
 
*A '''light red''' or '''pink current''' ( ''adèktivihūriruor'' ) favourable to {{wp|liberal socialist}} and {{wp|social-democratic}} policy approaches and not indebted to Kirosocialist ideology or the Kiravian Union. The light-red current is more liberal than the bright-red current on political matters, but somewhat more statist on economic matters and much more hostile towards business interests. The light-red current is a marginal but growing force in coastal state parties.
 
*A '''magenta current''' representing a revival of certain early 20th-century Kiravian progressive movements, such as [[Instructivism]], that helped to influence the development of Kirosocialism but were ultimately displaced by it. The magenta current presents itself as pragmatic, forward-looking, and attentive to contemporary social problems, to which it offers technocratic solutions inspired by modern science and {{wp|mainstream economics|mainstream economic}} studies. The magenta current is deeply suspicious of the financial sector and capital markets, but being outside of the socialist camp proper it takes no issue with the market economy itself, preferring directive and regulatory application of state power than in public ownership. It has been labelled by its detractors to the left as "naked dictatorship of the {{wp|intelligentsia}}" and by its detractors on the right as "{{wp|dirigism}} with a human face".
 
*A '''religious socialist current''' driven by {{wp|Christian socialism|Christian socialist}} and {{wp|Islamic socialism|Islamic socialist}} elements excluded from the [[Caritist Social Union]]. Inspired by {{wp|liberation theology}} rather than Kirosocialism, this current has a different image and voter base from the dark/bright and light red currents. Much of its support comes from Third Kirav and from agricultural workers, and unlike the other currents, it has a significant following outside Great Kirav, particularly in [[Sarolasta]] and [[Tiorentia]]. This current is especially prominent in the Farravonian states, and in [[Verakośa]], where Christian-left parties are the senior state-level PDF affiliates. Numerous Catholic university towns in Farravonia have had mayors in this vein.
 


==Factions==
<!--Most tendency groups are organised as a interstate conferences of state-level parties. However, the SPKF, SPKU, and RCKK are federated parties with nationwide Central Committees and operate as multi-state political parties under [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|political party control laws]].
Envisioned as a broad front of socialist parties with a significant degree of ideological diversity among them, the NDA can be subdivided into a number of factions, officially termed "tendency groups"). Most tendency groups are organised as a interstate conferences of state-level parties. However, the SPKF, SPKU, and RCKK are federated parties with nationwide Central Committees and operate as multi-state political parties under [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|political party control laws]].


The tendency groups currently operating within the NDA are:
The tendency groups currently operating within the PDF are:


*'''Socialist Party of the Kiravian Federacy (SPKF)''' - Federation of Palæo-Orthodox and Neo-Orthodox Kirosocialist parties united in 21207 under [[Féraluir Sekerin]], healing the rift between the old-guard "Continuity Kirosocialists" (who held closely to the policies of the Kiravian Union and attributed the fall of the Kiravian Union to counterrevolutionary subversion) and the reform-minded Neo-Orthodox parties who recognised the role of Kirosocialist policy failures in the Union's collapse and need for some degree of policy adaptation within an orthodox Kirosocialist framework. Since its formation, the SPKF has emerged as the largest and most powerful tendency.
*'''Socialist Party of the Kiravian Federacy (SPKF)''' - Federation of Palæo-Orthodox and Neo-Orthodox Kirosocialist parties united in 21207 under [[Féraluir Sekerin]], healing the rift between the old-guard "Continuity Kirosocialists" (who held closely to the policies of the Kiravian Union and attributed the fall of the Kiravian Union to counterrevolutionary subversion) and the reform-minded Neo-Orthodox parties who recognised the role of Kirosocialist policy failures in the Union's collapse and need for some degree of policy adaptation within an orthodox Kirosocialist framework. Since its formation, the SPKF has emerged as the largest and most powerful tendency.
*'''Socialist Party of the Kiravian Union (SPKU)''' - Grouping of Palæo-Orthodox hardliners who opposed the SPKF merger and explicitly reject the legitimacy of the [[Constitutional history of Kiravia|current Kiravian constitution]].
*'''Socialist Party of the Kiravian Union (SPKU)''' - Grouping of Palæo-Orthodox hardliners who opposed the SPKF merger and explicitly reject the legitimacy of the [[Constitutional history of Kiravia|current Kiravian constitution]].
*'''Kirosocialists 2 - Dialectic Boogaloo (KS2DB)''' - Loose grouping of heterodox Kirosocialists, whether descended from dissident factions suppressed within the Party during the Kiravian Union or formed around new ideas and alternative models of political organising after the end of Kirosocialist rule. This faction acts less as an ideological tendency advancing a common agenda, and more as a technical group working to prevent the orthodox factions from imposing a strong ideological line on the NDA as a whole.
*'''Kirosocialists 2 - Dialectic Boogaloo (KS2DB)''' - Loose grouping of heterodox Kirosocialists, whether descended from dissident factions suppressed within the Party during the Kiravian Union or formed around new ideas and alternative models of political organising after the end of Kirosocialist rule. This faction acts less as an ideological tendency advancing a common agenda, and more as a technical group working to prevent the orthodox factions from imposing a strong ideological line on the PDF as a whole.
*'''Socialist National Union (SNU)''' - Conference representing mainly [[Kiravian social nationalism|Kiravian Social-nationalists]] who have dropped orthodox Kirosocialist commitments to class struggle, comprehensive social control of the means of production, and the construction of "socialist culture", returning to the classical teachings of Kiravian social-nationalism before the movement's merger into the Socialist Party. Also includes the non-socialist Kirav First Party and some "Kirosocialists of the 212th century".
*'''Socialist National Union (SNU)''' - Conference representing mainly [[Kiravian social nationalism|Kiravian Social-nationalists]] who have dropped orthodox Kirosocialist commitments to class struggle, comprehensive social control of the means of production, and the construction of "socialist culture", returning to the classical teachings of Kiravian social-nationalism before the movement's merger into the Socialist Party. Also includes the non-socialist Kirav First Party and some "Kirosocialists of the 212th century".
*'''Noontide Group''' - A grouping of socialist and left-wing populist parties working outside the confines of traditional Kirosocialist ideological frameworks and party structures. Includes many parties organised among non-Coscivian minorities, e.g. [[Camhchéachta]] and Tryhstia's Partido do Tarabalho, as well as "post-Kirosocialist" parties like Fariva's New Direction Party.
*'''Noontide Group''' - A grouping of socialist and left-wing populist parties working outside the confines of traditional Kirosocialist ideological frameworks and party structures. Includes many parties organised among non-Coscivian minorities, e.g. [[Camhchéachta]] and Tryhstia's Partido do Tarabalho, as well as "post-Kirosocialist" parties like Fariva's New Direction Party.
*'''Alliance for a New Socialism''' - Conference of the state-level Kirosocialist parties that largely acquiesced to the post-Union political and economic liberalisations, moving toward "Kiro-social democracy" and "New Kirosocialism".  
*'''Alliance for a New Socialism''' - Conference of the state-level Kirosocialist parties that largely acquiesced to the post-Union political and economic liberalisations, moving toward "Kiro-social democracy" and "New Kirosocialism".  
*'''Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats''' - A grouping of more Western-style social-democratic, democratic socialist, eco-socialist, and left-progressive parties from outside the Kirosocialist tradition. The PASD is the smallest tendency in terms of elected representatives and party membership, but has a growing presence at the local level in some cities.
*'''Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats''' - A grouping of more Western-style social-democratic, democratic socialist, eco-socialist, and left-progressive parties from outside the Kirosocialist tradition. The PASD is the smallest tendency in terms of elected representatives and party membership, but has a growing presence at the local level in some cities.
*'''Revolutionary Committee of the Kiravian Kuomintang''' - A party of Shaftosocialists, {{wp|Conservative socialism|Conservative socialists}}, and Social Convists that originated from the left-wing current that once existed in the [[Renaissance Party]]. Adherents of this current remained in Great Kirav after the Renaissance Party's flight to [[Æonara]], where some were accepted by Kirsok as members of its United Front, while others continued to operate underground in opposition to the Kirosocialist Party's rule.
*'''Revolutionary Committee of the Kiravian Renaissance''' - A party of Shaftosocialists, {{wp|Conservative socialism|Conservative socialists}}, and Social Convists originating from the left-wing current that once existed in the [[Renaissance Party]]. Adherents of this current remained in Great Kirav after the Renaissance Party's flight to [[Æonara]], where some were accepted by Kirsok as members of its United Front.
*'''Kiravian Proletarian Parties''' - Faction representing the more expressly communist and/or convist elements that have always existed as a minority within the Kirosocialist movement and remained within the Socialist Party and its successors rather than join the CPKF or CPGK.
*'''Kiravian Proletarian Parties''' - Faction representing the more expressly communist and/or convist elements that have always existed as a minority within the Kirosocialist movement and remained within the Socialist Party and its successors rather than join the CPKF or CPGK.
*'''Union of Religious Socialists''' - Grouping of religious (mostly {{wp|Christian socialist}} and {{wp|Islamic socialist}}) parties, most of which joined the NDA after expulsion from the [[Caritist Social Union|CSU]] for their anti-capitalism and radicalism.
*'''Union of Religious Socialists''' - Grouping of religious (mostly {{wp|Christian socialist}} and {{wp|Islamic socialist}}) parties, most of which joined the PDF after expulsion from the [[Caritist Social Union|CSU]] for their anti-capitalism and radicalism.
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==Organisational Relations==
The [[Minor_Kiravian_Political_Parties#CPKF|Communist Party of the Kiravian Federacy]] and the Existential Humanist Party (Marxist), while not members of the PDF caucus, do have formal relations with it and coöperate with it on many initiatives. The [[Minor_Kiravian_Political_Parties#CPGK|Communist Party of Great Kirav]] rejects coöperation with the PDF and CPKF, which it has denounced as reformist and revisionist. The PDF has a tense relationship with the [[Social Democrats KF]].
 
The PDF and its members retain strong ties to {{wp|organised labour}}, particularly the [[Pan-Kiravian Congress of Trade Unions]], which is considered its ''de facto'' labour wing.
 
The [[National Union of Working Families]] is a Kirosocialist and social-nationalist interest group advocating for the rights an advancement of the ''[[yakav]]em'' or "village menial" castes, a historically disadvantaged stratum of Coscivian-Kiravian society. Similarly, the [[Revolutionary Vanguard of Depressed Castes]] is a left-wing Kirosocialist and Convist organisation that militates on behalf of the heavily discriminated ''[[harsitem]]'' castes, who were (and still often are) subject to strict social segregation and {{wp|untouchability}}. Both organisations predate the Kiravian Union and have always been closely tied to the PDF and its predecessors, retaining strong influence within PDF party structures even as the ''yakav'' and ''harsit'' electorate have diversified their political preferences and are no longer as reliable a {{wp|vote bank}} for the PDF as they once were.


==Voter Base==
==Voter Base==
A considerable portion of the caucus' voters belong to Antaric Coscivian ethnic groups. Antaric Coscivians were generally supportive of the Kirosocialist régime and did well under Kirosocialist rule. The same can be said of many East Coscivian ethnic groups, such as the {Muśkem}.
A considerable portion of the caucus' voters belong to Antaric Coscivian ethnic groups. Antaric Coscivians were generally supportive of the Kirosocialist régime and did well under Kirosocialist rule. The same can be said of many East Coscivian ethnic groups, such as the {Muśkem}.
   
   
Pretannic Celts, especially those living in mining areas of [[Etivéra]], [[Váuadra]], [[Íarthakelva]], [[Atrakelva]], and [[Kiorgia]], are a very strong demographic for the NDA, having wavered very little in their support for socialist parties since the Kirosocialist Period.
Pretannic Celts, especially those living in mining areas of [[Etivéra]], [[Váuadra]], [[Íarthakelva]], [[Atrakelva]], and [[Kiorgia]], are a very strong demographic for the PDF, having wavered very little in their support for socialist parties since the Kirosocialist Period.
 
Although numerically insignificant in federal elections, various small and marginal ethnic groups that benefitted from government development projects under Kirosocialism, such as the [[Kiʞik language|Kiʞik Coscivians]] and the [[Ethnic Groups in Kiravia#Salyar|Salyar]], continue to support socialism and provide an important source of votes for PDF affiliates in state and local elections.


Although numerically insignificant in federal elections, various small and marginal ethnic groups that benefitted from government development projects under Kirosocialism, such as the [[Kiʞik language|Kiʞik Coscivians]] and the [[Ethnic Groups in Kiravia#Salyar|Salyar]], continue to support socialism and provide an important source of votes for NDA affiliates in state and local elections.
==Provincial Affiliates==
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[[File:Flag of Somaliland (Orange).svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Andrēdan'''
*People's Mudžahidín of Andrēdan
<br>
[[File:ArgéviaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Argévia'''
*Equality Party
<br>
[[File:TealEnsign-Light.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Aventurine Bay'''
*Workers' Party
<br>
[[File:CascadaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Cascada'''
*Socialist Freedom Party
<br>
[[File:TealEnsign-Light.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Daridia'''
*Party for Bread & Roses
<br>
[[File:EtivéraFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Etivéra'''<br>{{Infobox political party/seats|1|5|hex=#b40404}}
'''Change To Win Coalition'''
*United Socialist Party
*Social-National Party
*Etivéran Socialist Party
*Socialist Liberation Party
*New Socialist Party
*Transformational Socialist Party
<br>
[[File:FarivaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Fariva'''
*New Direction Party
<br>
[[File:HanoramFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Hanoram'''
*Kirosocialist Party
<br>
[[File:TealEnsign-Light.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Herring Sea Islands''' {{Infobox political party/seats|2|3|hex=#b40404}}
*Transformative Party of Working People
<br>
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[[File:IlánovaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Ilánova'''
*[[Camchéachta]]
<br>
[[File:IlfenóraFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Ilfenóra'''
*Socialist Party
*Christian Social-Ecologist Movement
<br>
[[File:IntraviaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Intravia'''
*Democratic Worker-Farmer-Miner Party
*Socialist Labour Party
<br>
[[File:IrovasdraFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Irovasdra'''
*[[Camchéachta]]
<br>
[[File:KaviskaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Kaviska'''
*New Union Party
*Socialist Alternative Party
*Democratic Labour Party
*Revolutionary Committee of the Renaissance Party
<br>
[[File:KannurFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Kannur]]'''
*Socialist Party
*Convist Party
<br>
[[File:KorlēdanFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Korlēdan]]'''
*Red Star Party
<br>
[[File:MetreaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Metrea]]'''
*Socialist Party
*Christian Liberation Party
{{col-break}}
[[File:SerikordaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Serikorda]]'''
*''numerous''
<br>
[[File:SuderaviaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Suderavia]]'''
*Convist Party
<br>
[[File:SydonaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Sydona]]''' {{Infobox political party/seats|2|4|hex=#b40404}}
*Socialist Party of Sydona
<br>
[[File:UmcaraStateFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Umcara]]'''
*Revolutionary Committee of the Umcaran Renaissance Party
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[[File:Flag of Ontario (Green Ensign).svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Verakośa]]'''
*Working Families Party «I'm Tired!»
<br>
[[File:VôtaskaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Vôtaska]]'''
*Vôtaskan Socialist Party
*Independent Socialist Party
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==Membership==
===Other Affiliates and Observers===
===Caucus Members (with sitting Delegates)===
[[File:MetreaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Metrea'''
{| class="wikitable"
*Coscivian-Cetacean Communist Party (''observer'')
|-
[[File:Flag of the Republic of Sonora.svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Qódava|Qódava Nation]]
!State
*Great Socialist Party of Qódava
!Party
[[File:Bandera Partido Renovemos Alajuela Costa Rica.svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] [[Tryhstian Littoral]]
!Delegates
*Partido do Trabalho
|-
||[[File:Teal_Ensign.png|25px]] Alavora
||Socialist People's Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|1|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:ArgéviaFlag.png|25px]] [[Argévia]]
||''Kirosocialist Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:Teal_Ensign.png|25px]] [[Aventurine Bay Colony|Aventurine Bay]]
||''Workers' Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:CascadaFlag.png|25px]] [[Cascada]]
||''Socialist Freedom Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:DevahomaFlag.png|25px]] [[Devahoma]]
||''Devahoman Socialist Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:EtivéraFlag.png|25px]] [[Etivéra]]
||'''Change To Win Coalition'''<br>United Socialist Party<br>Social-National Party<br>Etivéran Socialist Party<br>Socialist Liberation Party<br>New Socialist Party<br>Transformational Socialist Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|2|7|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:FarivaFlag.png|25px]] [[Fariva]]
||New Direction Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|1|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||Camchéachta
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:HanoramFlag.png|25px]] [[Hanoram]]
||''Kirosocialist Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:Teal_Ensign.png|25px]] [[Herring Sea Islands]]
||Kirosocialist Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|2|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:IlánovaFlag.png|25px]] [[Ilánova]]
||Camchéachta
||{{Infobox political party/seats|1|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:IrovasdraFlag.png|25px]] [[Irovasdra]]
||Camchéachta
||{{Infobox political party/seats|1|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||''Kirosocialist Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:IlfenóraFlag.png|25px]] [[Ilfenóra]]
||''Socialist Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|2|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|rowspan=3|[[File:KasteraFlag.png|25px]] [[Kastera]]
||''Kasteran Constructive Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||''Socialist Party of Kastera''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||''Convist Party of Kastera''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:KaviskaFlag.png|25px]] [[Kaviska]]
||''Socialist Party of Kaviska''<br>Christian Liberation Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|7|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||''Convist Party of Kaviska''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|7|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:KoskenkorvaFlag.png|25px]] [[Koskenkorva]]
||''Social Democratic Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:Metrea_Flag.png|25px]] [[Metrea]]
||''Socialist Party''<br>''Social-Democratic & Catholic Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:KorlēdanFlag.png|25px]] [[Korlēdan]]
||''Red Star Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:NiyaskaFlag.png|25px]] [[Niyaska]]
||Democratic Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||''Niyaskan Socialist Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:Tryhstian Flag.png|25px]] [[Tryhstian Littoral]]
||Partido do Trabalho
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|2|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:Teal_Ensign.png|25px]]  [[Varisavia]]
||Varisavian Labour Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|1|4|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:VôtaskaFlag.png|25px]] [[Vôtaska]]
||Vôtaskan Socialist Party<br>Independent Socialist Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|}


===Other Conference Members===
==Notes==
{| class="wikitable"
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!Subject
!Party
!Local Seats
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||[[File:Flag of the Republic of Sonora.svg|25px]] [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Qódava|Qódava Nation]]
||Great Socialist Party of Qódava
||{{Infobox political party/seats|63|63|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:ElegiaFlag.png|25px]] [[Elegia]]
||Kirosocialist Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|11|100|#b40404}}
|-
|}


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[[Category:KRV]]
[[Category:Kiravian political organisations]]
[[Category:Kiravian political organisations]]
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[[Category:IXWB]]

Latest revision as of 15:33, 14 August 2024

Popular Democratic Front
Plānothāruaritaver

Symbol
Headquarters Viskonsin Hall
Kartika, District of Ksoīnvra
Secretary-General Alun Saxarnon
Chairman Féraluir Sekerin
Whip Matéus Salomon
Platform Kirosocialism
Left-wing nationalism

Factions:
Liberal socialism
Communism · Convism
Religious socialism

Newspaper Guardian of Truth
Electoral Symbol
Herring Sea Islands
24 / 40
Federal Stanora
100 / 545

The Popular Democratic Front is a caucus in the Kiravian Federal Stanora made up of political parties and independents promoting a common platform of socialist policies drawn mostly from the Kirosocialist tradition. The PDF was organised after passage of the Anti-Party Law as the successor to the People's Alliance, which had previously formed to take up the mantle of the Kirosocialist Party after its dissolution.


Platform

We, the Popular Democratic Front, are united in our mission to liberate the Kiravian People from exploitation and domination by élite interests, establish social control of the means of production from above - through the political process - and from below - through labour organisation and workers’ self-management, democratise and equalise the enjoyment of social goods; and protect the productive classes, commons, and natural environment through a robust, capable, and transparent public sector.

— Mission Statement of the Popular Democratic Front

Near-Term Objectives

Provided below is the official common platform of the PDF for upcoming electricians and legislative cycles:

  • Nationalise the Kiravian energy sector, mineral and forest resources, railways, airlines, telecommunications infrastructure, and flannel cloth industry
  • Restore public responsibility for housing and utilities, expand public housing, and scale user fees for municipal services according to household income.
  • Equalise health outcomes through a federally-financed, provincially-administered single-payer public healthcare system
  • Eradicate urban homelessness, slums, rural vagrancy, and substandard rural housing through a ten-year project of federally-financed social housing expansion
  • Reïntroduce price controls for essential goods
  • Establish a more robust and redistributive tax regime over financial transactions to curb speculation and manage negative externalities.
  • Aggressively develop rural broadband to guarantee internet access for all Kiravians
  • Restructure labour negotiations nationwide to a government-mediated tripartite model
  • Adden of the right to strike and the right to unionise in the Statute of Liberties
  • Center employment and domestic productivity in trade policy
  • Stop economic integration and travel liberalisation with Mid-Atrassic Crona
  • Increase investment in nuclear energy, scientific research, and space exploration
  • Set a government-mandated inflation target for the RBK
  • Return to armed neutrality with a moratorium on overseas military deployments; withdrawal from the League of Nations and independence for Kiravian League mandates.

Ideology

The party identifies Kiravian Marxist philosophy, Coscivian social-nationalism, and rGyanarajsism as the theoretical foundations of its ideological system. Although it adopts an explicit statement of ideological principles and its institutions are governed by and involved in continuing ideological studies, the PDF explicitly follows a "close popular front" strategy, aiming to unite the Kiravian Left and counteract the "fissile tendency of proletarian and people's parties to sunder over secondary and tertiary disagreements", deferring application of the finer points of its particular broad-church Kirosocialist manifesto until after the "restoration of bourgeois domination of Kiravia has been countered effectively by the collective action of the working class."

Currants

Ribes rubrum, long used as a symbol of the Kiravian Left

Political analysts often speak of four coëxisting ‘currents’ in the PDF that are identifiable with its different internal factions, voter blocs, and rhetorical approaches.

  • A dark red current ( ulsihūriruor ) deeply committed to the legacy of the old Kirosocialist Party and the Kiravian Union, critical of the present constitutional order, and appealing to Kirosocialist nostalgia and hard anti-capitalist sentiment. The dark-red current draws support from aging loyalists of the old regime, residents of Second Kirav industrial towns ill-served by market reforms, and certain ethnic communities. This current's political "brand", so to speak, is often referred to pejoratively as “burnt-brick socialism”, alluding to its adherents’ ideological inflexibility, the urban decay characteristic of its electoral strongholds, and the social background of many of its supporters (brickburning was traditionally a craft reserved to marginalised castes). Party cadre belonging to the deep-red current believe that theoretical rigour and conserving Marxist roots and Devinist methods of Kirosocialism are important, even if the salience of such questions has become obscure in today's Kiravia; the attitudes of its voter base are characterised by left-wing populism and nostalgia for the Kiravian Union.
  • A bright red current ( rensihūriruor ) locating itself the Kirosocialist tradition and adhering to Kirosocialist (rather than liberal-socialist) ideology, but adapting to post-reunification developments with a focus on near-term objectives and mainstream electability. The bright-red current appeals more to the metropolitan working class of First Kirav, and tends to emphasise humanitarian concerns (such as housing, public safety, healthcare), public services, and good governance in the face of corporate corruption. Bright-red sections of the PDF may take inspiration from Kirosocialism of the 212th century, Kirosocial democracy, Coscivian social-nationalism, or other theoretical schools. Some provincial and municipal parties taking a bright-red approach have sought to portray themselves as "socialists for growth" and associate themselves with the image of socialist mayors like Denisar's M.K. Stornoğuvin who are perfectly comfortable courting foreign investors to create local jobs and grow the tax base.
  • A light red or pink current ( adèktivihūriruor ) favourable to liberal socialist and social-democratic policy approaches and not indebted to Kirosocialist ideology or the Kiravian Union. The light-red current is more liberal than the bright-red current on political matters, but somewhat more statist on economic matters and much more hostile towards business interests. The light-red current is a marginal but growing force in coastal state parties.
  • A magenta current representing a revival of certain early 20th-century Kiravian progressive movements, such as Instructivism, that helped to influence the development of Kirosocialism but were ultimately displaced by it. The magenta current presents itself as pragmatic, forward-looking, and attentive to contemporary social problems, to which it offers technocratic solutions inspired by modern science and mainstream economic studies. The magenta current is deeply suspicious of the financial sector and capital markets, but being outside of the socialist camp proper it takes no issue with the market economy itself, preferring directive and regulatory application of state power than in public ownership. It has been labelled by its detractors to the left as "naked dictatorship of the intelligentsia" and by its detractors on the right as "dirigism with a human face".
  • A religious socialist current driven by Christian socialist and Islamic socialist elements excluded from the Caritist Social Union. Inspired by liberation theology rather than Kirosocialism, this current has a different image and voter base from the dark/bright and light red currents. Much of its support comes from Third Kirav and from agricultural workers, and unlike the other currents, it has a significant following outside Great Kirav, particularly in Sarolasta and Tiorentia. This current is especially prominent in the Farravonian states, and in Verakośa, where Christian-left parties are the senior state-level PDF affiliates. Numerous Catholic university towns in Farravonia have had mayors in this vein.


Organisational Relations

The Communist Party of the Kiravian Federacy and the Existential Humanist Party (Marxist), while not members of the PDF caucus, do have formal relations with it and coöperate with it on many initiatives. The Communist Party of Great Kirav rejects coöperation with the PDF and CPKF, which it has denounced as reformist and revisionist. The PDF has a tense relationship with the Social Democrats KF.

The PDF and its members retain strong ties to organised labour, particularly the Pan-Kiravian Congress of Trade Unions, which is considered its de facto labour wing.

The National Union of Working Families is a Kirosocialist and social-nationalist interest group advocating for the rights an advancement of the yakavem or "village menial" castes, a historically disadvantaged stratum of Coscivian-Kiravian society. Similarly, the Revolutionary Vanguard of Depressed Castes is a left-wing Kirosocialist and Convist organisation that militates on behalf of the heavily discriminated harsitem castes, who were (and still often are) subject to strict social segregation and untouchability. Both organisations predate the Kiravian Union and have always been closely tied to the PDF and its predecessors, retaining strong influence within PDF party structures even as the yakav and harsit electorate have diversified their political preferences and are no longer as reliable a vote bank for the PDF as they once were.

Voter Base

A considerable portion of the caucus' voters belong to Antaric Coscivian ethnic groups. Antaric Coscivians were generally supportive of the Kirosocialist régime and did well under Kirosocialist rule. The same can be said of many East Coscivian ethnic groups, such as the {Muśkem}.

Pretannic Celts, especially those living in mining areas of Etivéra, Váuadra, Íarthakelva, Atrakelva, and Kiorgia, are a very strong demographic for the PDF, having wavered very little in their support for socialist parties since the Kirosocialist Period.

Although numerically insignificant in federal elections, various small and marginal ethnic groups that benefitted from government development projects under Kirosocialism, such as the Kiʞik Coscivians and the Salyar, continue to support socialism and provide an important source of votes for PDF affiliates in state and local elections.

Provincial Affiliates

Other Affiliates and Observers

Metrea

  • Coscivian-Cetacean Communist Party (observer)

Qódava Nation

  • Great Socialist Party of Qódava

Tryhstian Littoral

  • Partido do Trabalho

Notes

Federal Stanora Caucuses
Authentic Historical Caucus
Caritist Social Union
Coscivian National Congress 		Federalist Republican Alliance
Kiravian Free Alliance
Labour Front of Kirav 		Popular Democratic Front
Regional Kiravia Caucus
Union of Democrats & Independents
Non-inscrits • Minor Parties • Former Caucuses
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