Antipartisan law in Kiravia
A large body of antipartisan law in Kiravia exists to restrict the formation and activity of political parties, on the federal level as well as in individual federal subjects such as states and territories. Federal antipartisan law is a relatively recent development: Mainly embodied in Article R of the Fundamental Statute and subsequent legislation, it was enacted after the fall of the Kirosocialist régime in order to prevent the rise of another single- or dominant-party state as had occurred under the Kirosocialist Party. Antipartisan law on the state and territorial level has a much longer history, especially in inland, western, and far northern Great Kirav, and has expanded significantly since Kirosocialism.
Antipartisan laws exist as constitutional provisions as well as statutes, and a small but significant body of case law has developed as a result of litigation under these laws. They can range in severity from outright constitutional prohibitions on certain types of political organisations to [XXXlessseverething]
Federal
Political parties, in the sense that the term is currently understood, did not exist for most of the history of the Kiravian Republic. During the Confederal Period and the earlier half of the Federal Period, political campaigning was a very local affair, and conducted mainly by courting the leaders of ethno-social communities, guilds, and religious congregations; clan chiefs, landowners, and heads of well-established prominent families, as well as other influential persons (such as newspaper editors) who could mobilise voter blocs in support of a particular candidate. It was only in the [DECADES] that something resembling political parties developed in the major proto-industrial cities of the eastern and northern seaboards. As such, the constitutions of the Confederate Republics of Kirav and the First Federation did not make any reference to or provisions for political parties.
Pre-Kirsoc background. Fall of Kirsoc.
The antipartisan provisions of the Restoration Constitution were put in place primarily to prevent a hypothetically resurgent Kirosocialist Party from resuming wholesale control of the country, but also to lay to rest concerns among the minority factions within the National Renewal Movement and the mainland Kiravian public that the Restoration would result in *de facto* single-party rule by the Renaissance Party.
Article R
Additional Statutes
A special carveout in the Anti-Party Law allows for deceased persons to named as general secretaries or presidents of provincial party chapters at the time of the law's passage to remain in office. This clause was included to allow provincial chapters of the Renaissance Party to retain V.R. Sarosten and Séan Kæśek as their eternal leaders. Members of opposition parties have criticised this clause, but no one cares very much.
Political Finance Commission
The Political Finance Commission (Ostrakrótakrāstakirstuv) is the public body charged with enforcing federal campaign finance laws and by extension is the main agency responsible for enforcement of federal anti-partisan laws. The PFC monitors the registration of various classes of political organisations and their interactions with one another to ensure compliance with federal law.
Subject-level
Parties have been completely banned from the political process of the devolved government of the District of Ksoīnvra since 21186 under Order No.47.
Strict nonpartisanism is particularly common in the Western Kirav, particularly the Western Highlands. Many low-population federal subjects such as the Line Captaincy Islands operate on a nonpartisan basis in the absence of any legal mandate.