National Reconstruction Front (Daxia)

The National Reconstruction Front is a centre-right big tent and founding political party of the Democratic Republic of Daxia. The NRF currently holds 13 out of 500 (2.6%) seats in the Assembly of the People and has legislative presence in four provinces but no governorships. Founded in 1946 by Dai Hanjian by agglutinating several pro-democracy movements , war veterans's associations and emerging labor organizations; the NRF maintained absolute and uninterrupted state power from 1945 to 1992 and presided over a dominant party system with no corresponding checks and balances to its authority. This system was maintained by a combination of corporatism, coercion and repression. Having being founded and led by army officers from its inception, the NRF was notably militarist, intervening in the Rusani Civil War on the side of the NCDP with the 'Little Incursion' in 1962 and helping the government of Canpei crush the democratic protests known as the Revolution of Dignity in 1984.

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General Secretary	Trang Shesh
Headquarters	Mirzak, Daxia
Newspaper	National Voice
Youth wing	Nationalist Wave Association
Membership (2027)	20,143
Ideology	Big tent Pragmatism Dirigisme Revolutionary Nationalism
Colors	Light Green, White
Assembly of the People	3 / 500
State Assembly (Daguo)	7 / 40
State Assembly (Xing)	4 / 40
State Assembly (Sanyu)	2 / 40
State Assembly (Pingu)	8 / 40
Party flag

Established after Dai Hanjian's 'Glorious Revolt' that toppled monarchical rule, the NRF provided him and the military rulers after him with a wafer-thin veneer of democratic legitimacy that was renovated by elections that were never free nor fair and often without any candidates to oppose the NRF. Upon its 1992 defeat in national elections the party rapidly lost power and positions in the government bureaucracy, it was subjected to various corruption investigations (former president Tao Zexian was imprisoned for 3 years) and was eventually banned by the electoral board from 1993 to 1999. The party was greenlighted to participate in the elections of the year 2000 where it got around 2 percent of the votes cast and regained small representation in local assemblies. Ostensibly independent, the NRF has reinvented itself from being a party of power into what is now considered by political analysts to be an inconditional, submissive ally and political satellite organization of the Party of Daxian Democrats.

During its five decades in power the party went from favoring center-left, statist economic policies to preferring a more mixed model with some market oriented reforms that included privatization of certain state industries and abandoning import substitution programs. This ideological evolution however did not touch the economic interests of the Army which continued to have an outsized political and economic influence until the end of the regime. The NRF created many of Daxia's modern institutions such as the independent National Bank in charge of fiscal policy, a well funded healthcare system and the bloated security organs. The current General Secretary of the party is Trang Shesh.

History

Foundation and Qiu Heng era

One of the few photos of Qiu Heng during his last term of office

Qiu Heng's ascension to the leadership of the country saw for the first time the ascendance of politics over purely military leadership; Qiu Heng saw the perpetuation of the military junta system as inherently unstable, absent an electoral mandate of sorts, any ambitious general in charge of a division could feel themselves justified in attempting to take power the same way as the junta did in the first place. Since Qiu distrusted the established but outlawed old political parties, he decided instead to build a new party from the ground up without 'any of the old chaff'. As the base of his new party of state he chose a pro-military civic association called the National Daxian Rally-NDR that had existed since 1945 but had never reached much relevance. Qiu directed the Ministry of Social Services and the Ministry of Finance to direct significant financial resources to the NDR to support its growth.

The junta leader himself joined the NDR in the summer of 1952 and was elected its General Secretary 'by acclamation' of the party delegates. This was followed by a massive surge in party membership as government employees joined en masse(to curry favor, preserve their jobs or genuine agreement with its programme and ideals), trade unions and government contractors enjoined their affiliates and employees to do the same. In this early stage the biggest labor union of the country, the then All-Daxian Workers Central Union negotiated generous terms on collective bargaining and perks for its members in exchange for its unrestricted support for the new political machinery. Qiu Heng announced the first national elections for President and a new National Assembly would take place concurrently in mid 1951, he also announced his candidacy at the head of the now renamed National Reconstruction Front-NRF.

List of General Secretaries

No.	General Secretary	Portrait	Took office	Left office
1	Qiu Heng (1902-1964)		1951	1964
2	Chi Long Qua (1905-1972)		1964	1972
3	Min Bib Doda (1913-1985)		1972	1980
4	Yang Qiu (1922-1999)		1980	1988
5	Tao Zexian (Born 1945)		1988	1992

Electoral History

Presidential elections(1951-1988)

Election	Party candidate	Popular vote	%	Result
President elected by popular vote
1951	Qiu Heng	210,653,846	73%	Elected Y
1956		262,595,890	91%	Elected Y
1960		274,138,566	95%	Elected Y
1964	Chi Long Qua	271,252,897	94%	Elected Y
1968		252,366,896	89%	Elected Y
1972	Min Bib Doda	335,483,645	93%	Elected Y
1976		358,654,823	97%	Elected Y
1980	Yang Qiu	295,365,655	83%	Elected Y
1984		225,651,211	69%	Elected Y
1988	Tao Zexian	278,356,983	52%	Elected Y