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===Political Parties=== | ===Political Parties=== | ||
{{main|Political parties in Ardmore}} | |||
Since 2000, Ardmore has allowed for the formation of opposition political parties that may compete in legislative elections with no restrictions. However, there is a quota enforced that ensures that the opposition parties can not win more than one-third of the 250 representative seats in the General Assembly; this measure is intended to prevent aspiring right-wing populists from gaining political dominance as well as to ensure that the current socialist form of government will not be so easily dismantled. The other two-thirds of the representative seats in the General Assembly are reserved for parties that are committed to the retention of the socialist form of government. This means that Ardmore is under an enforced dominant-party system where the socialist parties are allowed to win any seat in the General Assembly without any of the quota restrictions that the opposition parties are under. | |||
The main leading political coalition in Ardmore is the Popular Left Coalition, an alliance of three socialist parties that have agreed to a perpetual electoral and parliamentary partnership. The coalition is derived from the idea of a {{wp|popular front}} model that was often supported in left-wing democratic circles. Members of the Popular Left Coalition are among the socialist parties that are thus not subjected to the limitations implemented for non-socialist parties. The Popular Left Coalition was established in 2000 with the express purpose of uniting all likeminded socialist parties against the forces of reaction. To maximize their electoral efforts, the member parties have agreed to not complete against each other in seats that are guaranteed to be won by one of them and to instead focus their efforts on seats that are reporting a high amount of support for an opposition party. Through these efforts, the Popular Left Coalition have been able to win roughly three-quarters of the representative seats allotted in the General Assembly. | |||
====Governing parties==== | |||
The dominant party in Ardmore, and leading party in the Popular Left Coalition, is the [[Co-operative Party of Ardmore]] (PCA). Founded in 1921 as the Workers' Party of Ardmore (POA), it is the oldest continuously-operating party in Ardmore. Initially a catch-all socialist mass movement, the POA quickly turned towards syndicalism as the party's initial leading members were largely educated in [[Vithinja|Vithinjan]] socialist thought which called for a decentralized form of government run by groups of largely autonomous workers' councils; the party would soon be renamed as the Syndicalist Party of Ardmore (PSA) in 1927 as its ideological framework became formalized. From the end of the Civil War in 1931 until the reforms of the year 2000, the PSA operated as Ardmore's sole legal political party; any other political organization could only existed as a faction within the PSA. The current name of the party was registered in 2003 to reflect the changes in Ardmore's political sphere and to match the party's name to the country's official name to reflect its historical legacy as Ardmore's longtime ruling party which it still lives up to to this day. | |||
The second-largest member in the Popular Left Coalition is the [[Labor Party of Ardmore]] (PLOA). Initially an internal faction of the Syndicalist Party that was formed in 1947 under the name "Democratic Front of the Revolutionary Vanguard", the PLOA was spun out as an independent political party in 2000. The PLOA is a revolutionary {{wp|social democratic}} party that claims to be the heirs to the truest forms of social democracy back when the ideology was seen as advocating for a "revolution by the ballot" rather than merely advocating for a reformed form of a capitalist economy that most social democratic parties have shifted towards for the past several decades. However, because the revolution has already been achieved, the PLOA has opted for a populistic approach and supports the slight centralization and rationalization of government to transform Ardmore into a robust {{wp|socialist republic}} in the vein of Rumahoki's form of socialism. It is most often associated with urban {{wp|technocrats}} and {{wp|intellectuals}}. The PLOA prides itself in being the party of "red professionals" and young entrepreneurs. | |||
The smallest member in the Popular Left Coalition is the [[Borbonist Workers' Party of Ardmore]] (POBA). As the name implies, POBA is a {{wp|communist}} party based upon the tenets espoused by Rumahokian revolutionary hero [[Vito Borbon]]. The party was founded in 2001 by radical members of the Syndicalist Party who felt largely inspired by the revolutionary zeal found in both the Ardmori Civil War and in Rumahoki's [[Velvet Revolution]], and the pre-feudal society that governed the Ardmori Isles. The POBA advocates for the immediate transition to communism as well as gradually converting Ardmore into a confederation of semi-independent labor councils. The official ideology of POBA is described by members as being "Ardmori-Borbonism" which most political scholars have a difficult time describing it with some calling it {{wp|anarcho-syndicalism}}, others calling it {{wp|anarcho-communism}}, and more calling it {{wp|libertarian socialism}}. Most members of POBA are generally in their young adulthood, but there exists a sizeable amount of members who are beyond that particular demographic. | |||
===International Relations=== | ===International Relations=== | ||