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===Politics=== | ===Politics=== | ||
As a republic with a century-long electoral tradition, Arona has a complex political life with a high degree of engagement in the political process by the Aronan people. Electoral participation is generally high in Arona, with turnout averaging 73.2% per election between 1980 and 2030. Arona has three major political parties. | As a republic with a century-long electoral tradition, Arona has a complex political life with a high degree of engagement in the political process by the Aronan people. Electoral participation is generally high in Arona, with turnout averaging 73.2% per election between 1980 and 2030. Arona has three major political parties. The largest party is the center/center-right Aronese National Movement (ANM), the party which governed the country virtually the entire 20th century. The ANM is characterized as pro-Occidental, pro-military, with a focus on economic development by means of foreign capital. ANM is generally favored by economic elites, part of the middle class, and members of the military. The second largest party, and the party currently in government is the Tainean Social Democratic Party (TSDP), which is center/center-left. TSDP is moderate on the issue of Arona's relationship with Urcea, instead focusing on improving living conditions and improving the social safety net. TSDP is generally popular among the urban poor but its base is voters in Arona's northeastern rural corner, the poorest part of the country. The smallest of the three major political parties in Arona is the Independence Front (IF), which began as an anti-Protectorate single-issue party but has since become a big-tent centrist party whose economic vision largely aligns with the TSDP. The IF is mostly popular among Aronese intellectuals and a segment of the college educated middle class. | ||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||