Human Progress Party

The Human Progress Party (acronymized as HPP) is a major political superparty represented in the government of the Coalition of Congressional Republics. Founded in 2257, it is one of the oldest and persistent political parties, and has maintained a large presence in the General Congress of the Coalition since its founding in the wake of the Corporate Revolution.
The HPP advocates primarily metaliberalism with technocratic and social progressive elements. However, in the terms of economics, the HPP is considered centrist - agreeing to basic fundamental rights such as healthcare and welfare, but conceding a gross majority of economic power to the private sector in much the same vein as the New Democratic Party.
The origin of the HPP lies with its founder, Riley Sabine, who was concurrently the then-standing chairwoman of the Stapleford Group megaconglomerate. With the formation of political parties within the level of the Coalition government - argued by some as a means to internally weaken it in the advance of corporate power - Sabine had saw an opportunity to, in the eyes of the public, advance the notions of technocracy and progressivism to the wider and politically diverse Coalition. With a powerbase on Mars that drew from the Stapleford Group's influence on the world in addition to major funding from the corporate group, the HPP quickly expanded and became one of the vanguards of progressive ideology, alongside that of the then-existent Coalition Democratic and Coalition Liberal parties.
The arrival of the New Democratic Party in 2409 from the two formerly existent political parties left the HPP with a rival within its demesne of politics, which would only be overriden by the creation of conservative coalitions within Congress. The finality of the existence of these coalitions eventually allowed the NDP and the HPP to amend their relationship, leading to the formation of the Alliance of Equity.
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