National Party of Hou Zhanaland

National Party of Hou Zhanaland (国民党 ・ホウ・ザナランド in Akashiren, Samuksu Wemantu Hou Nanakingi, in Sikoto) is a notable centre-right to right-wing party in Hōu Zhanaland. It's origins can be traced back to 1909 Federation Act when Hōu Zhanaland in its modern form was established. Nowadays party is widely regarded as a centre-right liberal conservative party, pushing moderate right policies, but historically it used to push more hardline stances.
== Ideology ==
The Hōu Zhanaland National Party supports moderately conservative social policies and liberal market policies. It's ideological classification falls under these ideologies: liberal conservatism, conservatism, conservative democracy, national conservatism and libertarianism, sorted in order of their influence on the party.
The current party's stance on the ethnic relations within the state is a policy of non-interference, opposing attempts at reviving segregation, however at the same time, refusing to push reconciliation, claiming that for a healthy multi-ethnic society to form the rifts must heal naturally. They're also proponents of the idea of "A Country Of Multiple Nations", that it's crucial for different ethnic groups to maintain their own identities. 
Another of their major points has been the reform of the current first-past-the-post Huiputi electoral system, into a regional proportional system, which they view as a good balance of the regional representation, and national proportional one. 
Economically, their plans are to limit extensive welfare established during the Labour-dominant period, and instead create a favorable environment for private enterprise.
=== Factions ===
The party, albeit more unified in recent years thanks to the electoral rebound in the 1930s, is still relatively factionalized, with all of the factions offering a slightly alternative program.
==== New Nationals ====
The New Nationals, are a centre-right to right-wing faction under the leadership of the current Party Chairman, K. Tenanis, and they're the largest, leading faction of the National Party.
==== Old Guard ====
Old Guard is the second largest faction, and the oldest members of the party. The faction is notably more extreme, representing the hardline national conservatives under the leadership of Kinichi Morimoto. They were opposed to the idea of the desegregation, however show no intent of attempting to enforce it again. 
==== Third Way Clique ====
Third Way Clique is the least defined clique in the National Party, rallied around the figure of Raeya Fujishina, they're broadly composed of whoever found themselves on the fence between the New Nationals and Old Guard when the faction conflict erupted in the late 1910s. In recent years they're more favorable of New Nationals, however they play a crucial role as mediators between the New Nationals and the Old Guard.
==== Libertarians ====
Libertarians under Kinichi Kitei represent much more socially progressive stance relative to the rest of the party, even more so than the liberal conservative New Nationals, however their main unifying factor is economic deregulation, hence sometimes they're nicknamed "corporatists" or "corpos", as some mock them as being corporate inserts whose sole purpose is to allow companies sway over government.
==== Fatherlanders ====
Fatherlanders under Ryuji Miyazawa represent the far-right clique actively trying to bring back racial segregation. They're the most marginalized group in the party, as even the second most extreme group, the Old Guard refuses to align with them.
== History ==
=== Foundation ===
The party was initially founded shortly after the 1909 Federation Act, which merged the colonies of Sundatano and Hou Zhanaland into one, and established democratic institutions. The party was initially founded in Gaaten, by a group of like-minded Sundatano colonial officers, however the National Party quickly amassed membership of conservatives from the common citizenry, as the main opponent of progressive Labour. 
=== Early Years ===
The early years of Nationals, were dominated by the Old Guard of ex-colonial officers, who opposed the growing desegregation movement. In the 1910 general election, the party failed to win seats in the Huiputi, ending up as the third choice behind other 2 major parties, the Labour and Liberals in pretty much every province. Throughout the 1910s it remained relatively the same, except the reactionary efforts in response to the desegregation movement was failing, and costing Nationals a lot of support. At the same time, the support for the segregation in place was rapidly decreasing within the party too, with even some of the original colonial officers admitting that their support for the segregation wasn't ideological but pragmatist.
=== Faction Warfare ===
In the aftermath of the 1918 HZ General Election, being a terrible disaster for the National Party, again failing to even gain seats in the Huiputi, the National Party was hit by an earthquake. It has become apparent, the party needs to adapt. Within the party, the 1918 electoral disaster served as electoral ammunition for the "New Nationals" centre-right wing of the party, led by Keisuke Ténanis, who for a long time sought to combat the right-wing to far-right "Old Guard" of Kinichi Morimoto for the leadership within the party. 
On 15th of December 1918, the party primary for the Party Chairman seat took place in the Haikato HQ of the party. 751 representatives of local branches of National Party voted for the next leader of the party. Three members of the party ran for the seat: Keisuke Tenanis, Raeya Fujishina and Kinichi Morimoto. Tenanis gathered 53,7% of the vote, Fujishina 33,3% and and Morimoto 13%. 
After his victory, K. Tenanis made the party's progam much more moderate relative to the preceding program. 
This however didn't cause much improvement in terms of support, as right-wingers flocked to support the Liberal Party instead, turning it into the mainstream moderate right party. After his initial embarassment after the election of 1918, in 1922, Kinichi Morimoto again challenged Keisuke Tenanis for the Chairman seat on the yearly Party Congress. He motioned for no confidence, which passed, resulting in a snap primary 3 days later, on the last day of the Congress. 
Five candidates stood up, from the most liberal to most conservative: 
* Kinichi Kitei - a classical liberal, minor candidate
*Keisuke Tenanis - a liberal conservative, and the reigning Chairman
*Raeya Fujishina - a moderate conservative, the relatively popular pragmatist candidate, who was on the fence between the moderates and the hardliners
*Kinichi Morimoto - a national conservative, the ex-Chairman, leader of the Old Guard,
*Ryuji Miyazawa - a reactionary, minor candidate looking to attempt reestablishment of segregation.
In the first round, R. Fujishina, viewed as a "unifying mediator" of sorts, took the lead, but no candidate crossed even the 30% support margin. Tenanis trailed him by 10 votes in second, and Morimoto was in third, 16 votes behind. Kitei and Miyazawa occupied 4th and 5th way behind. Due to bad organization of the snap primary it was decided to revote with all 5 candidates still in, instead of a runoff eliminating somebody.
*R. Fujishina - 217 votes
*K. Ténanis - 207 votes
*K. Morimoto - 191 votes
*K. Kitei - 103 votes
*R. Miyazawa - 43 votes
In the second round, many of the Kitei and Miyazawa's supporters turned to Tenanis and Morimoto seeing they were way behind, and the latter two were the second closest to their views. It was decided to host a runoff with top three candidates.
*K. Ténanis - 257 votes
*R. Fujishina - 217 votes
*K. Morimoto - 210 votes
*K. Kitei - 53 votes
*R. Miyazawa - 26 votes
In the third round, Tenanis gathered major lead but it still wasn't the necessary 50%, so it was all left to the fourth runoff between Tenanis and Morimoto only, and the "fencesitters" voting on Fujishina, were the powerbrokers.
* K. Ténanis - 310 votes 
* K. Morimoto - 234 votes
* R. Fujishina - 217 votes - 27.1%
(TBA)
==Etymology==
The National Party of Hōu Zhanaland, uses three official names, the mentioned one in Travelers' Tongue, 国民党 ・ホウ・ザナランド - Kokuminto Ho Zanarand in Akashiren, and Samuksu Wemantu Hou Nanakingi, in Sikoto. Quageron and Hwa languages also have their variants but they're not official: Lochina Huerilla Dehuóllanalun and 허우자날란드 국민당 - Heou Zhanallandeu Gugmindang.
The official variants are hardly used though, as commonly the party is known by a variety of shortened variants, listed below per language:
===Travelers Tongue===
*National Party - semi-official,
*HZ Nationals,
*HZ National Party
*Nats,
===Akashiren Houmi===
*国民党 (Kokuminto)
*Ko'minto - occasionally used in informal speech in similar context to Nats in TT, but never written down, always written down as 国民党 regardless of if the shortened slang pronounciation was used.
===Sikoto===
*Samuksu Wemantu
*Samuksi
===Dequa===
*Gerillán - Uncommon and pejorative
*Huerillas
*LH
*Lochina Huerilla
===Hwa===
*국민당 (Gugmindang)
*Gug'dang - used in the same way as Ko'minto in Akashiren, also always written down as 국민당 regardless of if the shortened slang pronounciation was used