Progressive Frog Party

The **Progressive Frog Party** or **PFP** is a left-wing political party in Twitcord. It was co-founded by Progressive Party leader Monstromax, and Former PM and Frog Party leader Izzybella on 22 August 2020. Even though the party is officially for Social Democracy, a small minority of members are Socialists, and even anarcho-communists. The Party became Socialist under Monstromax's leadership, who self identified as a leftist anarchist, but the party has since shifted back to "Nordic Capitalism" under Komeada's leadership

The PFP was once a junior member of the Libertarian Coalition, but later split to form their own coalition, the "Progressive Democratic Coalition", or "PDC". The PDC disbanded by law in 26 November 2020

## History

### **Origins under the Progressive Party**

The original Progressive Party was founded on 12 May 2020 by Smartwater, an ideological social democrat. Throughout the party's existence, until the beginning of Sendix's premiership, the party consistently only had 1 MP, Smartwater himself. Due to this fact, the party couldn't contest any general election, and remained irrelevant

On 12 August 2020, Smartwater resigned, and Monstromax was appointed as interim leader, who was recently elected into parliament. Under his leadership, the Progressives joined the Libertarian Coalition, saying "the ruling Theocratic government is a living nightmare, and it should be combatted at all cost. if it means allying with laissez-faire capitalists to defeat fascism, then so be it"

On 20 August 2020, Former PM Izzybella announced she was leaving the Minarchist Party and forming a new left-wing political party with some independent MPs, called the Frog Party. 2 days later, the Frog Party and the Progressive Party merged into the Progressive Frog Party

## Positions

The Progressive Frogs is described as Left-wing across the board. While it mostly agrees with its current rival (the Libertarian Party) overall on social policy, it heavily disagrees with them on economic policy. The majority of the PFP supports Social Democracy, although it has a small socialist faction.

### **Social issues**

The PFP can be described as socially progressive. It is further to the left than the Democratic Party and says it doesnt go far enough. The PFP agrees the most with the Libertarian Party on social issues, with a few exceptions.

On foreign policy, the PFP is completely non-interventionist, but opposes isolationism. The party is pro-legalization of most drugs and prositution. The party js extremely pro-gun, anti-police brutality, and anti-mass incareration. It opposes government corruption

The PFP claims to be the most pro-LGBT and enviromentalist party, because "unlike the libertarians, we support governemnt intervention to protect them" Although the Liberatrian Party counters this by stating that the LP is led by LGBT people, while the PFP leadership is "cis het", and makes a commientment to conservationism

### **Economic issues**

The majority of the PFP supports Social Democracy, or as current PFP leader Komeada has said "we support Nordic Capitalism. we don't want socialism, we want to fix capitalism so it works for everyone, so socialism is unnecessary". The party has Democratic Socialist and Libertarian Socialist factions, but they help push for Social Democracy with the party majority, claiming jt as a "lesser evil" to the LP's laissez-faire or the Democrat's unionist neoliberalism

The PFP supports Universal Healthcare and a generous welfare state. It supports the Nordic model of trade unions, UBI, free housing and education. It opposes corporate welfare.

Unlike the Democratic Party, the PFP opposes a national minimum wage, prefering wages to be negoiated between strong unions and companies