United Democratic Party

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**Factions**:

* Electoral Reform
* Economic Reform

The **United Democratic Party** is a Southambian national conservative party formed on 2 Beginnings 106;2E by the merging of the National Democratic and People's Democratic parties. Since late 107;2E, the PDU has been part of the National Union Coalition.

## Background

### National Democratic Party

The National Democratic Party (PND) was founded as the National Federalist Party (PNF) on 6 Endings 81;2E with its name being changed to the National Democratic Party months after Zacharias Richmond left office as the Magistrate of Southambia. The National Democratic Party was a national conservative political party which favoured traditional ideals and typically observed Luari supremacism. The PND was part of the PND/PDP coalition, which consisted of the Holney regionalist party, the People's Democratic Party.

When the PND was first founded as the PNF, it opposed federalism and support unitarianism, despite it's name. However, after it's phase of deradicalisation, it would eventually begin to support federalism and would drop unitarianism from it's party platform. However, despite these attempts at deradicalisation, many individuals would form factions within the party that supported more extremist ideals. The most notable of these factions were the ones that supported the Confederation Agreement, which, during and after the civil war, would lead to many protests and riots calling for the ban of the PND because of it's participation in the Confederation Agreement. The Superior Court of Southambia did not hear appeals for the party to be banned, and instead declared that since the PND willfully participated in the government's effort to defeat the Confederation, that it was not supportive of the ideals of the Confederacy, and as such is not subject to be banned for supporting revolutionaries.

### People's Democratic Party

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) was a Holney regionalist political party that splintered off of the Holney Republican Party on 4 New Earth 82;2E. Likewise with the PND, it would see a phase of deradicalisation after the departure of Zacharias Richmond as Magistrate of Southambia. The PDP generally observed national conservative and regionalist ideals. As a result of Holney being supermajority Luari, some factions of the PDP also observed Luari supremacist ideals. It was part of the PND/PDP coalition alongside the PND.

The PDP would face less controversies than it's national counterpart, however the party did rely on it's founder and first leader, Édouard Vidal, who was considered to be the lifeline of the party. These arguments are usually backed by the poor performance of the long-reigning party in the 104;2E Holney gubernatorial election, where PDP leader and gubernatorial candidate Emmanuel Barrault won 54.5% of the Holnite vote, a decrease of 18.06% from the 99;2E Holney gubernatorial election. As a result of the party's poor performance, Barrault and Philibert Laframboise, the leader of the National Democratic Party, would agree to merge the two parties on the 2nd of Beginnings, 106;2E, and form the United Democratic Party.

## History

### Founding and Subsequent Election

The PDU was founded on the 2nd of Beginnings 106;2E after the merger of the National Democratic, and People's Democratic parties, both of whom were previously in a coalition. One of the merger agreements was that the party would be jointly led by the leaders of the National Democratic and People's Democratic parties.

## Structure and Organisation

### Co-Chairs

The Co-Chairs were established as part of the PND/PDP merger agreement. The current co-chairs of the United Democratic Party are Emmanuel Barrault, who was the second and last leader of the People's Democratic Party, and Philibert Laframboise, who was the last leader of the National Democratic Party.

### Party Congress

The party congress serves as the governing body of the United Democratic Party.

## Notes

1. ↑ *Luari*: *Parti démocratique uni*, *Astellian*: *Partido Democrático Unido*, *Slovan*: *Об’єднана Демократична Партія*