New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party (acronymized as the NDP) is the one of the major political superparties represented within the government of the Coalition of Congressional Republics. It was founded in 2409 from a merger between the old Coalition Liberal and Coalition Labor Parties as a response to the birth of the Congressional Republican Party, and was first headed by Garrison Rocheford. 
The NDP advocates sociodemocracy, a form of democratic government with "social awareness" that incorporates aspects of old world social democracy and democratic socialism, such as basic public healthcare and a basal form of welfare for all humans. However, the NDP is simultaneously a major proponent of megacorporations, neutering its capacities for further social policies — this is in part due to several megacorporations and corporate individuals directly or indirectly endorsing the NDP's "status quo" objective. 
As of 2698, the NDP is the largest political party in the General Congress of the Coalition, and has formed the Alliance of Equity with the Human Progress Party to maintain a larger heading over the more fragmented centrist and conservative parties. The "power base" of the NDP lies mainly within the Core, but has member subparties and favor as far as some colonial systems on the Frontier. However, due to the Guillén synthetic scandal of 2697, the party has seen an erosion of power, with some members having drifted to the HPP in support of synthetic rights and opposition to the NDP's handling of the situation - and others drifting to more conservative parties due to the NDP's lack of ideological indignation towards synthetics. 
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