Renaissance Party
The Renaissance Party was a major political party during the later years of the Federal Period of Kiravian history and subsequently the dominant party of the Kiravian Remnant following the Kirosocialist takeover of Great Kirav.
Renaissance Party Plaiduv Inoguamsk | |
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| Secretary-General | Dáud Múamat Koreıśin (last) |
| Eternal President | V.R. Sarosten |
| Eternal Chairman | Séan Kæśek |
| Founder | V.R. Sarosten |
| Founded | 211XX |
| Dissolved | 211YY |
| Succeeded by | Federalist Republican Alliance Coscivian National Congress |
| Headquarters | Tandhurin Island, Valēka Kartika Vaśyansar |
| Newspaper | Herald of Rebirth |
| Student wing | Insane Gangsta Disciples |
| Rural wing | Freesoil Councils |
| Ideology | Rennovationism Shaftonist republicanism Anti-communism Geoconservatism Conservative liberalism National liberalism Principlism factions: Restarkism (from 211XY) Shafto-socialism (until 211XZ) |
| National affiliation | National Reunification Front (1939-1985) National Renewal Movement (1985-199X) |
| Colors | Teal |
| Rump Stanora (211XQ) | 200 / 225
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Platform:
1. No anime
2. Stay based, my friends
4. Legalize drunk driving
History
Origins
Antebellum Federacy
Civil War
Kiravian Remnant
Reunification
Legacy
See also: Federalist Lodges The political legacy of the Renaissance Party was carried on by the Federalist Republican Alliance and Coscivian National Congress caucuses. The SRA inherited the more politically and economically liberal elements of the Renaissance Party, while the CNC inherited its more statist and nationalist elements. Many provincial affiliates of the Federalist Republican Alliance, especially in Æonara and the Overseas Regions, continue to use the Renaissance Party name and embrace other aspects of its platform and identity.
Contemporary provincial parties that have retained the Renaissance Party name and traditions include:
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Platform
Occidental scholars generally describe the antebellum Renaissance Party as a progressive-conservative party supportive of established value systems but opposed to the institutional status quo, marketing itself as a movement to realise existing civic ideals where those in power had failed to. Common threads that would remain part of the Party's ideological mantle throughout its history include:
Nationalism
Reformism - Land, Taxation, and the Ballot
See also: Land reform in Kiravia
'Preëmptive Reformism' in the Remnant
While exiled to Æonara, Renaissance Party-led governments enacted what have been retrospectively referred to as "defencive reforms" or "preëmptive reforms" intended to shore up the social and territorial stability of the Kiravian Remnant by preëmpting popular grievances that might provide fuel for socialist or secessionist revolutions if left unaddressed.
Policies later described as preëmptively reformist in nature include:
- Healthcare -
- Native Relief - The Sarolasta Reform Act created a formal process for mestiço and Coscivised Polynesian communities in Sarolasta to be legally and ritually recognised as part of the Coscivian meta-ethnicity, and also removed legal disabilities for the unassimilated Polynesian population. The 1949 Cronite Civil Status Act (Atrassica) promoted taxpaying Massapíkva and Minnéola from Subjects of the Land to metics (vôvodin) eligible to apply for full citizenship (and subject to conscription), and extended Kiravian nationality to non-taxpaying aboriginals domiciled on the reserves. The patois people of Seváronsa were declared Coscivians by a Collegial decree invoking Imperial authority in 1947.
- Women's Suffrage - The federal ballot was opened to women in [YEAR] and the Kiravian Women's Party was admitted to the National Reunification Front. States were bullied into giving women the vote within the next year or so.