National Pact (Urcea): Difference between revisions

By the first full election after the restoration in 1905, the Pact found itself in a Daoni minority for the first time in decades. The National Democratic Party, which was more progressive on social reforms and had an economic policy in line with newly-formed Catholic teaching, went on to find major success until the [[Great War]], in which the Pact managed to regain power. Since the conclusion of the Great War, the National Pact has taken an increasingly neoliberal economic philosophy, a change that lead to the fracturing of the party as a minority broke off and formed the [[National Social Union (Urcea)|Liberal Party]] in 1960, which sought to pursue Urcea's "traditional [[Crown Liberalism]]". During much of the 20th century and early 21st century, the Pact and the National Democratic Party were the largest two parties and often formed the Daoni majorities and elect the [[Procurator]]. The National Democratic Party ceased to exist as a consequence of the [[2015 Urcean political realignment]], leaving the Pact as the nation's largest party. As a part of the realignment, during the lengthy Procuratorship of [[James Fallshade]], the party began to take on an activist approach to foreign policy, with support for [[The Deluge]] part of the Pact's official platform. The Pact retains its proud identity as "Crown Liberal", although the meaning of the term has become greatly debated with the advent of its neoliberal laissez-faire approaches to economics.

Historically, the National Pact did not have an official economic platform as it was a political club aimed at increasing the breadth and depth of the [[Constitution of Urcea]]. Within the Pact, many factions formed during the 19th and early 20th centuries with radically different views on economics. The Pact's first platform, adopted in 1840, included a small section on increasing the economic productivity of the nation, but it largely included language urging the implementation of tariffs against members of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] (in keeping with the [[Recess of the Julii]]) and creation of a more robust national railroad system. Only after the [[Great War]] did economic considerations enter seriously into the Pact's philosophy, as it began to softly reject the language in Quadragesimo anno as outmoded and "without scientific precedent" while still "lauding the intentions of the Pope" to call for a just economic system. The transformation was gradual, as the mainstream economic classical liberal position did not become the majority position until the party's 1980 platform. It was prevalent enough, however, to cause the party to fracture with the formation of the breakaway Liberal Party in 1960.