Moderate Party

== Overview ==
The Moderate Party (Stylised as Moderate) was a political party active in the Republic of Polynesia formed to compete against Forward. The party was founded with a merger of the Nationalist Party, Party of the Polynesia-Litwa Association and a small group of splitters from the PLD and PCP. The partys purpose as the opposition to Forward became was achieved following their joint victory with Forward and then their victory against Forward prior to both parties disbanding with the outbreak of the 4th Civil War.
== History ==
=== Foundation ===
On February 9th 2022, The Moderate Party was founded by Sealand and Tom as a merger between Sealands independent unofficial joke party named the Morrissey Party after the Popular British singer of the same name and Toms Nationalist Party of Polynesia a Centrist big tent political party who had over the last multimonth period in November 2021 - February 2022 had gone in and out of popularity and unpopularity culminating in them wishing for a rebrand. 
After the formation they gained members from Jordin who was also a independent Member of Parliament after the dissolution of his party, They offered Enrique and his Trolling Party to join the merger but the party refused, however the Party of the Polynesia-Litwa Assosciation also joined the party, this would be the final merger in their early history and would complete the line up.
=== Time in Opposition and 43rd RoP Federal Election ===
The Moderates initially struggled to make their place on the server as people began to criticise not only their but Forwards position as parties that seemed to want to create a two party system on the server using the Craftist and Mineist identities. This would lead to the leave of Jordin for Enriques anti two party political party shortly after the initial foundation, Despite this there reputation would recover and at one point during the long campaign for the 43rd RoP Election they polled over 80% in a Telegraph newspaper poll.
However at the election they fell short of expectations recieving one less vote than Forward but yet winning the same amount of seats, Despite negotiating early from the closure of the election the Moderates failed to gain the support of other parties to form a coalition whilst Forward did, keeping them in opposition. During their term in opposition there repeated critisism of the government over various blunders and failures to deal with an influx of new players who were often violent to the server. The government would go on to lose 10 percent in ratings over this term.
=== 44th RoP Federal Election, Government, 4th Civil War and Disbanding. ===
== Electoral History ==
Party Leader 	Election	Seats	Percentage
Tom and Sealand	43 	4 	25%
Tom and Sealand	44 	4 	38.46%