Veltorina: Difference between revisions

Following the Constitution of 1892, Veltorina was governed, nominally, as a {{wp|single party}} parliamentary republic with {{wp|federal republic|federal}} characteristics. While the ruling Socialist Revolutionary Industrial Progress Party (SRIPP) was the only party allowed to exercise official government responsibilities, the legalization of freedom of assembly in 1892 allowed the formation of "interest groups" who, although all members of the SRIPP, functionally formed rival organized political factions. Whether or not the state was a single-party state in actuality has been an object of considerable debate among historians and political scientists. Although upstart political parties directly at odds with SRIPP were brutally repressed, the ideology of the SRIPP itself was essentially dependent on whichever faction was ascendant. A majority view among scholars is that the SRIPP essentially functioned as a quasi-democratic government agency rather than a political party, essentially making Veltorina an imperfect multi-party democracy.