Christian Solidarity Movement

## **Overview**

The **Christian Solidarity Movement** or **CSM** for short, is a right-wing Christian Democratic party in Adoria, which advocates for Christian Synarchic principles, as well as a wide range of Catholic-Protestant values. They also advocated for distributism, as well as Adorian autarky. It's social policies were conservative in nature, and economically they are dead center. The current leader of the movement is Ethan.

The Christian Solidarity Movement takes its roots from the party with same name, which was established on 19th of March, 2021. The original CSM didn't last long, as on the 20th of April 2021, the movement was renamed to the Adorian Centre Party and a new logo and manifesto was adopted. This change put a temporary end to the CSM as a political party, but on 19th of December 2021, exactly 9 months later, the party was reestablished again with the original leader of the movement, AceGregory, and with many well-known Christian politicians being part of the party, such as Taymurr, Based Autocrat and liimur.

## History

### 66th - 67th Elections

The Christian Solidarity Movement was beginning to form as far back as November 30th, 2021, with the help of former President Baron, who helped recruiting members for the movement. However, the party had a hard time finding members, and it would take almost a month before the partywould officially form on 19th December 2021, which was mostly caused by the dissolution of Libeccian National Party, which ended the old conservative line in Adoria since its beginning. AceGregory would become party leader of the movement , and would sign up for the 66th General election, where the CSM managed to gain 3 seats. The first three members of parliament for the CSM would be AceGregory, Taymurr and liimur.

Even though CSM wasn't extremely active in the National Assembly, on the 67th General Election, the party would see an incrase from 3 seats to 4 seats, with Based Autocrat becoming the 4th Member of the Assembly for CSM. During the 67th term, the party would propose the "State Nature Protection Act" and the "Libeccian National Parks Establishment Act", which helped set up regulation on the setting up of National parks in Adoria, and created 3 new National Parks in the province of Libeccio. Based Autocrat was then approached by the Minsiter of Environment Roger Knossos to become his Deputy Minister. Based Autocrat was also serving as Duke of Libeccio at the time, and has helped develop and expand local infrastructure in the region.

### 68th - 69th Elections

On December 30th, AceGregory decided to resign from his post as party chairman, saying that he wanted to: "Finally bring back Christian Democracy to Adoria, and Christian politics as a whole. And now that I have done it, i do not see a reason for me to remain the chairman of the CSM." The next chairman of the CSM would be Based Autocrat, as he was the only one to sign up for the election. Based Autocrat quickly consolidated the party under his control.

In the 68th election, the CSM would win just 4 seats, yet again, ending up fifth. The CSM would strongly oppose the construction of the bridge between Lavanda Islands and Libeccio, calling it an "abomination", while also pointing out that it was illegal according to an Act passed by the CSM the previous term. Another bill the CSM would strongly oppose would be the "Drug Enforcement Act", which would legalize all drugs in Adoria. The CSM was the only party to oppose this Act, and criticized the Association of Taxpayers and Consumers, for supporting the Act, while being in oppositition.

In the 69th election, the CSM would win 4 seats yet again, for which the CSM started to be joked about being stuck with 4 seats forever. However the CSM would be fairly in this term, constantly critizing the government policy such as higher inheritance taxes, foreign military bases in Adoria and appointing unqualified people for ministerial positions, as well as the Secularization Act from the SDP, which managed to pass, but the CSM got the president LastCelebration to veto the bill, stopping it completely. The CSM and its party leader Based Autocrat would score very high in opinion polls, ususally second, just behind Otto Von Oldrich and his Democratic Movement of Europe and Adoria.

### 70th - 71st Elections

In the 70th elections, The CSM received 13 seats, which is 15.29% of the National Assembly. This was an amazing result for the CSM, as it gained 9 seats, finally escaping its 4-seat curse. It was arguably the biggest winner of the election, as it managed to gain the most seats, thought it still ended on 4th place. The Members of the National Assembly for CSM would be Based Autocrat, liimur, Taymurr, Sinpar, Flo1234, JNChicane, Ik Onkar, RMSteve, AceGregory, Roonald, Jose Montiel and Lojcuz.

The CSM wasn't very active through the 70th term, but managed to win 11 seats in the 71st election (this was a public election and not an AES one). Despite the 2-seat loss, new people decided to join the movement, most notably TheCrisisKat. Yannick and Liam also received a seat from the CSM, as they failed to reach the threshold for independents to become Members of the National Assembly.

The CSM also managed to join a a very broad coalition of DMEA-CSM-ANP-LF. This coalition was very ideologically diverse and wouldnt last long. as the CSM member TheCrisisCat, would propose the "Safe Adoption Regulation Act" which would set up proper legislation on adoption, but it contained a provision requiring all Adopters to have to be a couple of a biological male and female. As a result the bill would be condemned by the SDP and other parties. CSM would not budge from their position noting that they were simply standing by their values while other conservative parties like ANP would be too scared to do so. Despite CSM's decision to propose a non-controversial adoption bill, The Prime Minister Daniel would not approve of CSM violating the coalition agreement by attempting to pass any social policy at all, and on 4 March 2022, he would formally announce the sacking of all CSM ministers and the Coalition's consensus to replace CSM with ACT.

CSM would propose 3 major bills during the 71st term:

* **Labeling System for Audiovisual Works Act**, which would established an uniformed system of labeling audiovisual works, as well as evaluating the criteria of suitability in relation to the specific age group of minors for which the content is recommended.
* **All Life Protected Act**, which would completely ban abortion, unless in the case of rape, the mother is under 18 years old, or the life of the mother is threatened.
* **Safe Adoption Regulation Act**, which would set up proper procedure on the adoption process as well as banning homosexual and transgender individuals from adopting children.

### 72nd Election

The CSM would surprisingly gain seats in the 72nd election, as everyone expected they would lose seats because of getting kicked out of the coalition. However the opposite was true, and the CSM managed to win 20 seats, making them the second largest party in the National Assembly, while all other coalition parties (with the exception of LF) would lose seats. The CSM was very active in the 72nd term, proposing over 40% of all legislation that term:

* **Adorian Infrastructure Development Act of March 2022**, which would expand the railway infrastrcture in the province of Libeccio, by building several new high-speed railway networks.
* **Military Complaints Ombudsman Board Act of 2022**, which would improve accountability in military academies and the military itself by providing for a Military Complaints Ombudsman Board to protect the identities and security of whistleblowers.
* **Adorian Water Fluoridation Act Repealment**, which would repeal the Adorian Water Fluoridation Act, which mandated that drinking water must contain fluoride.
* **Advertisement Regulations Act**, established general requirements for advertising, and banned presenting nudity of the human body, presenting the human body in any explicit, inappropriate or any kind of suggestive clothing, focusing on person’s private body parts as a form of getting the interest of a consumer to consider the purchase of a product, as well as promoting behavior which would endanger the moral development of the youth.

The bills ranged from all sorts of topics, from improving infrastructure, expanding security and setting up regulations for advertisements and etc. The Movement also managed to block some bills from the SDP-DMEA coalition, most notably the "Bodily Autonomy Act" which would allow abortion up to 24 weeks.

### 73rd Election

The 73rd Election would be historical not just for the CSM, but for all of Adoria, as the CSM, led by Based Autocrat won the most seats in all of Adorian history (as of writing) and won a majority in the National Assembly alone for the second time in Adorian history. With 48 total seats, the CSM would be quick to establish a government, just 11 hours after the election results were announced. This would be the first right-wing coalition in a very long time, as the last centre-right coalition was on the 58th Election, (led by Based Autocrat as well) and the last pure right-wing coalition was on the 50th Election.

   Leading a one-party government would prove to be very hard, with all opposition parties (with the exception of SoL) would unite against the CSM as well as many ministers would resign over disputes with the party leadership. On the other hand, the CSM led government managed to pass many conserative bills, which made the 73rd Government arguably the most conservative government in Adorian history. For example:

* **Adorian Alcoholism Prevention Act**, would raise the legal drinking age from 18 to 21,
* **Religious Institutions Financial Regulations Act**, would grant tax cuts and government subsidies to Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim, and Other churches,
* **Adoption Regulation Act Amendment**, would ban LGBT and trans couples from adopting children,
* **Child Safety Act**, would ban classroom discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels, ban advertisements and any sexual education that promote deviation from the identity corresponding to one’s sex at birth, sex reassignment, or homosexuality, banning pornography and striptease clubs and making prostitution illegal.
* **All Life Protected Act**, would impose a total ban on abortion except in cases of rape, the mother is under 18, or if the mother's life is in danger during childbirth.
* **Beautiful Architecture Preservation Act**, would establish a special committee to examine and order all new buildings public and private, to be built in a classical or baroque architectural style.
* **Cultural Heritage Protection Act,** would establish the Adorian National Heritage Institute to encourage, promote, and strengthen Adorian patriotism and Christian values.

### 74th election

The CSM proposed a total of 64% of all proposed legislation, but didn't invest as much in campaigning. Together with many resignations the CSM lost 14 seats in the 74th Election, winning 34 seats making them the biggest party again. CSM amanged to form a government again with SoL (which disbanded right after joining the coalition) and 4 independents. Because SoL disbanded, this was yet another CSM-only government.

Despite forming a government, CSM wouldn't be able to stop the repeals of most of their bills, which they passed last term. The government also lost a vote of confidence in the National Assembly despite not causing any scandal. With all that, Leader of the CSM Based Autocrat would decide to finally retire on April 22nd, 2022 and would appoint Carlos Montiel as new leader of the movement.

With Based Autocrat retiring and soon dying (in-sim), many people would start leaving the party and the membership count would start to drastically decrease, with many notable people leaving as well.

### 75th - 79th Elections

The 75th Election would a distater for the CSM, where it would win just 7 seats, losing 27 seats and making them the second smallest party in the National Assembly, proving that without the leadership of Based Autocrat, the movement would collapse.

Carlos Montiel (Jose) the new leader of the movement, decided to not sign the CSM up for the 76th Election, to demonstrate that a server without a major rightwing party would be a leftist echochamber without them. This radical step would be reached in reaction to De-Basedification when they were thrown out of power with all their reform torn down along with it. This would result in the movement ending up outside of parliament for the first time in its history.

The party would sign up for the 77th Election, winning just 4 seats. Pride month would officially begin around this time, with majority of parties announcing their support for the LGBT community, except the CSM, which would draw criticism for celebrating *International Day for Protection of Children* and supporting all children being safe from harm. On June 2nd, CSM Leader Carlos Montiel proposed the "Investigation of Child Abuse in the Pride Movement in Adoria bill", as a reaction to the passage of the "Pride Month Act", authored by the SDP. CSM's bill would propose federal police surveillance for all pride parades in Adoria, in addition to opening molestation and abuse investigations into all Adorian pride leaders. It would also codify indecent exposure within 50 meters of children being considered a charge of child molestation. Carlos' bill would have the support of the CSM & KAB but would be widely unpopular among all other parties. Though it seemed as if it was destined to fail last minute votes from the PMA would see the widely controversial bill pass.

CSM would manage to increase its seat count in the 78th Election by 2 seats, from 4 to 6, thanks to the Pride Month Investigation bill, proposed by Carlos Montiel. However the movement would be pretty inactive during the term, and in the following 79th Election, the movement's seat count would drop to just 2 seats, with many rumours appearing that the CSM would finally be dissolved for inactivity.

### 80th Election

The CSM received 8 seats in the 80th Election with Ethan as its new leader. The movement managed to increase its seat count by 6 seats, killing the rumors of the CSM being dissolved for inactivity (the 80th Election were using popular vote instead of AES). The CSM was approached by both the SDP and the ANP to help them create a government. The rightwing parties would attempt a ANP-AFP-CSM-LUA-KAB coalition with Liimur as chancellor but when asked about abortion by CSM leader Ethan the coalition members would only be willing to increase restrictions instead of a full-ban suggested by Ethan. The CSM would turn out to have been allied with the SDP and UWF to form a SDP-UWF-CSM coalition from the beginning, and was just trolling the right wing parties to garner reactions. The SDP-UWF-CSM coalition agreed to a status quo on social issues, this would mean that a full abortion ban in Mediterraneo (passed by Ethan as governor) would remain in effect.

A big win for the CSM would happen later during the term, when the Supreme Court ruled that according to the new constitution, unborn life was protected as well which meant abortion was made illegal in all of Adoria, and with the coalition agreeing on preserving status quo, the abortion ban could not be changed and would have to stay.

### 81st Election

The CSM managed to increase its seat count in the 81st Election, from 8 seats to 11 seats, becoming the second largest party in the National Assembly. The CSM would remain in government, joining the broad CSM-ANP-KAB-LD-LUA coalition led by Chancellor Yannick. With bossmansoldier and Valeryon leaving Adoria, and Based Autocrat returning from the dead, the CSM faced no opposition in the parliament, passing yet another wave of socially reactionary bills, with almost no opposition.

Based Autocrat was quickly made second party leader as he demanded, so the CSM had two leaders for the first time. Based Autocrat would propose a large amount of new bills in the National Assembly, as well as writing Executive Orders for CSM ministers, as well as party writing announcements.

The most important bills passed by the CSM in the 81st Election were:

* **Media Services Act**, established regulation for broadcasters and banned homosexuality and sexual deviance in all audiovisual and internet works.
* **National Companies Administration & Regulations Act**, established regulations on nationalization of businesess and their administration.

## **Election Performances**

### 1st Christian solidarity Movement

The CSM has participated in the 8th Adorian Gubernatorial elections. Running GHazardPerry for Governor of Maritania.

They failed to win the election however, also not being able to gain a seat in the National Assembly, therefore becoming extra-parliamentary due to this. The Progress Party ended up gifting a seat to the CSM as a sign of trust and friendship, giving the CSM a voice in Adorian politics early on.

 **47th** | Andefar

### 2nd Christian Solidarity Movement

On 19th of December 2021, the Christian Solidarity Movement was revived by AceGregory (also known as HospitallerBoi) and signed up for the 66th General Election, where the CSM managed to win 3 seats.

## Leadership

According to party bylaws of CSM, the main body of the political party is the Party Council with 6 members, It is made up of Party Leader, two Deputy Leaders, Party Whip and three other elected members. Leadership elections happen once every 3 weeks, where the party members vote for their Leader, Deputy Leaders and members of the Party Council.

## See Also

* Christian Union
* United Christian Right
* Christian Nationalists
* Catholic Syndicalists
* Christian Democratic Union
* Christian Civic Union
* **1st Christian Solidarity Movement**
* Holy Plan for Adoria
* **2nd Christian Solidarity Movement**