Social Democratic Party (Frankenland)

The **Social Democratic Party** (Lungarian: *Socialdemokratisch Partei*, *SP*; Maldonian: *Parti Sociale-Democraté*, *PSD*; Regian: *Partito Sociale Democratico*, *PSD*) is a social democratic and democratic socialist political party in Frankenland. Since 2018, the party has been the third-largest in the National Council and the State Council. It is a Frankish affiliate of the Party of Eurean Social Democrats.

The SP is the oldest continuously active political party in Frankenland, first being established as a workers' party in 1912. As of 2020, the party has approximately 85,000 registered members. The SP is the largest left-wing party in Frankenland, and the only left-wing party represented in the Federal Council. The party's support is evenly spread out across Frankenland Proper, Dovandy, and Civiara.

## Political positions

The party is described as both social democratic and democratic socialist, with some members leaning towards the former and others to the latter; the former sit on the center-left, while the latter on the left-wing of the political spectrum.

The party supports neutrality, state sovereignty, direct democracy, anti-militarism, and federalism.

### Economic policy

The party supports classical social democratic principles. With that, they advocate for offering widespread government services accessible to all citizens and rejecting economically liberal ideas such as deregulation, *laissez-faire* economics, and lowering taxes on high-earning citizens. The party wishes to raise taxes on high-earners and big businesses in order to finance government services such as universal healthcare, paid maternity leave, and universal childcare, in addition to being able to preserve a low retirement age.

The party supports a progressive tax rate, where the more an individual earns the more they will be taxed; thus, the burden on low-earning citizens will be eased, while high-earning citizens will be contributing more. They also advocate for the redistribution of funds. The SP is opposed to the privatization of government services, believing that privatization can lead to corporations taking advantage of consumers.

### Social policy

Keeping with traditional social democratic teachings, the party advocates for a fair and open society where all citizens have an equal chance of succeeding. They have been supportive of social movements such as feminism and racial equality, in order to diversify the elite sector.

The party supports allowing for safe abortions at-request and legalizing same-sex marriages; however, there is some inter-party dispute over whether abortion should remain illegal in the third trimester. They additionally support anti-discrimination legislation in the workforce and in housing on the basis of sex, race, national origin, sexual or gender identity, and religion. The party has rejected proposed restrictions on immigrants and asylum seekers, instead supporting government services meant to help assimilate recent immigrants and asylum recipients into Frankish culture through language courses and employment guarantees. Additionally, the party has supported the legalization of marijuana and decriminalization of all drugs.

### Foreign policy

The party supports Frankenland's official policy of neutrality, believing that involvement in international wars and conflicts is wasted spending. They believe that taxation should go to benefiting the citizens of a nation, not the nation's international influence as is in the case of military conquests. The party also supports strengthening relations with Frankenland's neighboring nations, while also maintaining its territorial sovereignty.