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Volonia is under a {{wp|dominant-party system}} wherein although there exists multiple legal and independently-operating political parties, the vast majority of elections are continuously dominated by a single political party. Asides from the dominant party, there exists two other political parties that have consistently won legislative representation and in some cases have even became the governing party for a brief time.

The largest and oldest of the nation's political parties is the [[United Volonia Movement]] (MVU), a successor to the organization formed by [[G.C. Lorenzo]] during the [[Second Great War]]. The MVU was originally the political arm of the post-war {{wp|military junta}} which ruled the country as the sole legal party until democratization, but has since transitioned towards a {{wp|big tent}} political party which is typically categorized as a {{wp|center-right}} party. It supports strong relations with [[Caphiria]], though not necessarily to the exclusion of any other nation, a strong national defense, a liberalized economy, a moderate social safety net, and {{wp|free trade}}. The United Volonia Movement has won a majority of the elections since the implementation of the current constitution in 1970 and is presently the incumbent governing party.

The usual main opposition party in Volonia is the [[Party of National and Traditional Defense]] (PANT), which is usually positioned to the {{wp|right-wing politics|right-wing}} or even {{wp|far-right politics|far-right}} of the political spectrum. It is an anti-[[Caphiria|Caphiric]] political party and has significant [[Levantia|Levantine]] sympathies. The PANT calls for more distant relationship with Caphiria, an alliance with Levantine nations, a furtherance of [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] social teaching, amending the constitution to allow for the legal enforcement of the Catholic faith, and upholding of traditional Volonian values. The party also calls for the rearmament of Volonia as well as making {{wp|Romanian Cyrillic alphabet|Volonian Cyrillic}} the official script of the Sarpo-Volonian language instead of the {{wp|Romanian alphabet|Latin-based alphabet}} that is currently in place. From 1970 until 1994, the party also called for the replacement of the National Tribune in favor of a {{Wp|constitutional monarch}} as part of its political platform.

The nation's main third party, and one of the newest, is the [[Commonwealth Party (Volonia)|Commonwealth Party]] (PCV). Considered to be on the {{wp|center-left politics|center-left}} of the political spectrum, the Commonwealth Party views western [[Sarpedon]] as a single cultural and economic continuity, and thus seeks to eschew both [[Caphiria|Caphiric]] and [[Levantia|Levantine]] influences in favor of those of [[Cartadania]] and [[Pelaxia]] as well as seeking closer relations with other Romance nations in Sarpedon. The Commonwealth Party is a strong proponent of Volonia's entrance into [[UNESARP]], but also seeks to enhance Volonia's social safety net. The Commonwealth Party also aims to make the Cyrillic- and Latin-based Volonian alphabets co-official scripts of the Volonian language on an equal basis with a minor faction supporting the adoption of a {{wp|Romanian transitional alphabet|Cyrillic-Latin fusion alphabet}}. The constitution of the Commonwealth Party views [[Cartadania]] specifically as a model for Volonians to emulate.

 

Several minor political parties exist, including the {{wp|far-left politics|far-left}} [[Party of the Revolution in Sarpedon]] (PRS), the {{wp|monarchism|monarchist}} and [[Urcea|Urceanist]] [[Julian Party (Volonian)|Julian Party of Volonia]] (PIV) that was formed in 1980 by a splinter faction of the PANT that supported enthroning a [[House de Weluta|Julian]] monarch instead of the [[House de Bruce|de Bruce]] monarch like the rest of the party had during that year's party congress, and {{wp|regionalism|regional interest}} parties such as the [[Frontier Party]], a small party which seeks a referendum on whether or not the northernmost parts of the nation should secede from Volonia and reunite with [[Caphiria]].