Arzanshahr Renaissance Front

The Popular Front for An Arzani Renaissance Arzan Avestan: جبهه خلق برای آزادی ارزانشهر (Eniya Gel a Rizgarkirina Arzanşarê) is the leading political grouping within Arzanshahr following the Arzani Revolution of 2021. Composed of multiple disparate political organizations of all ideological and religious groupings, the Arzani Renaissance Front is not formally a political party, but membership in the Renaissance Front is a de-facto condition for an organization's eligibility in Arzanshahr, where all formal political parties as-such were dissolved in 2022.

Popular Front for An Arzani Renaissance جبهه خلق برای آزادی ارزانشهر
Founded	14 March 2007
Dissolved	20 February 1990
Preceded by	United Democratic Opposition of Arzanshahr
Headquarters	Sayendag, Arzanshahr
Ideology	Arzani Nationalism; Arzani federalism; Anti-Levantine Sentiment; Factions: Communism; Revolutionary Syndicalism; Libertarian Municipalism; Left-Wing Nationalism; Republicanism; Classical Liberalism; Social Liberalism; Ultranationalism; Monarchism
Political position	Varied; Extreme left to Far-Right

Founded as a form of unifying the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition in the Arzani National Assembly during the era of the First Arzani Republic, the main task of the Renaissance front was to coalesce all opposition organizations into a a common electoral list, and in order to likewise boycott all elections from 2005-2021. The founding organizations participating in the Arzani Renaissance front were drawn from extremely diverse ideological poles: from the The Arzani Communist Party (orthodox Marxist-Leninist), The Independent Workers League of Arzanshahr (an oppositional revolutionary syndicalist movement split from the ACP in 1940), The Democratic League of Arzanshahr (left-liberal, founded after the split of the Arzani Social Democratic Party between reformist and revolutionary wings in 1934), and The Front for Societal Development (reformist-oriented monarchist conservatives). During the heightening of dissident activity during the Arzani Uprising of 2019-22, several other groups joined the front. Also included were several non-party mass organizations of various political flavors, such as a majority of the nation's trade unions, urban sports leagues, etc.

Constituent Organizations

Party	Emblem	Flag	Ideology	Seats in the General Council (2029)
Communist Party of Arzanshahr (Marxist)			Marxism-Leninism Communism	80
Arzani Communist Party			Marxism-Leninism Stahlism Third Worldism |	75
Democratic League of Arzanshahr			Parliamentary Democracy Social Democracy (Factions) Social Liberalism (Factions)	52
Independent Workers' League of Arzanshahr			Democratic Confederalism Bairidsm Anarcho-Syndicalism |	120
National Democratic Party			Monarchism Conservative Liberalism Social Conservatism Conservative Socialism	52
Pan-Audonian Party		None	Revolutionary Nationalism National Syndicalism Arzani Avestan Ethnonationalism Pan-Audonism Anti-Burgundie	21

Constituent mass organizations represented in the Renaissance Front

Organization	Emblem	Flag	Foundation	Organization Type	Representatives in the Council of Professions
Arzani Federation of Labor			1921	Trade Union	61
Arzani Youth Front			1946	Youth Organization	67
League of Arzani Writers			1947	Professional Artistic Organization	42
Militant Clerics' Group			1945	Ecumenical Religious Organization	30

Early History

Pavilion of the National Front in Leipzig, 1953

The Arzanshahr Renaissance Front was initially founded by Professor Mohsen Hoveyda, a former professor of psychoanalysis in Burgundie and a leading MP for the Democratic League in the Arzani parliament in both the late era of the Arzani Monarchy and the semi-dictatorial Arzani Republic after its deposition. In 2007, increasingly frustrated with the failed attempts to achieve an exclusively electoral victory for the democratic opposition within Arzanshahr, Professor Hoveyda made entreaties to both dissident figures in the Arzani military, as well as the Communist, anarchist, and other dissident revolutionary groups which had led guerrilla campaigns in the country's interior for the past 30 years. After successful negotiations with all leftist opposition parties (with the exception of the Arzani Communist Party (Workerist), a left-communist dissident split from the Arzani Communist Party) and small fractions of the rightist and liberal opposition, the Arzani Renaissance Front was officially founded in a clandestine Founding Congress in 2009. With its foundation, the Renaissance Front was able to successfully coalesce all major opposition to the military regime in the country together, and began propaganda efforts in the Arzani diaspora abroad as well as within professional organizations and trade unions inside of the country.

After a heightening of the economic crisis in the country in 2020, as well as the Renaissance Front-directed intensification of guerrilla activity going deeper into the country's major cities, the military government was toppled, and Captain Nasir Karimi, foremost representative of both the ACP and the Renaissance Front in the armed forces, was able to form a provisional government with himself as president and Hoveyda governing the country dually until a constitution could be drafted. However, Hoveyda was assassinated in 2021, shortly after the toppling of the government, leaving Karimi the sole spokesperson of the Renaissance Front. It was Karimi that lead the Renaissance Front to a swift victory in the elections to the Arzani Constituent Assembly in 2022, and the successful drafting of a socialist, federalist constitution in 2023. Karimi himself, though, was assassinated in 2028, leaving the post of Chairman of The Renaissance Front completely vacant until the forthcoming Arzani Elections of 2030.

Chairmen of the National Front

• Professor Mohsen Hoveyda and Captain Nasir Karimi (2007-2021)
• Captain Nasir Karimi (2021-2028)

Electoral history

ELECTIONS UNDER REPUBLIC OF ARZANSHAHR (2007-21)

ELECTIONS TO CONSTITUTIVE BODIES OF DEMOCRATIC ARZANSHAHR (2021-PRESENT)