People's Party

Logo of the People's Party

The People's Party was the most successful one-issue party in the Republic of Polynesia (RoP)'s political history. It was a unified front

with all right-wing, centrist, and most major members of the Socialist Party to reach a united goal of replacing the Parliamentary system of Government with a system based on the powers of Provincial Governors (House of Representatives). It ran in one election and won, achieving all its goals along with other extra accomplishments listed below. After all goals were achieved, the Prime Minister (Tsar) called a Snap Election scheduled for December 16, 2020.

**Last Updated:** March 3, 2021

**Accomplishments During its Only Term:**

* Repeal and Replace the Parliamentary system of Government with a Governor-based system in a new system called the "House of Representatives" (*Election Promise, Accomplished*)
* Pass legislation to get the Provinces of Nova Contea Province, Atlantis Province, and North Sea Province approved (*Accomplished*)
* Funded efforts to create the RoP's first military base, Fort Tabantha. (*Accomplished*)
* Held an unofficial poll to make up for the term's short length (*Accomplished*)

## **Members**

 Tsar\_\_Putin | Co-Leader, Co-Founder
 UNB | Member
 Enrique | Member
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**Past Members**

* Sealand: Left the Party for 24 hours to rejoin the Socialist Party on December 4, 2020; rejoined on Dec. 4th after the failed Rising of December 3rd.
* Cosmic: Left the party to run as the Liberal Party's candidate for Prime Minister on December 4, 2020. His membership lasted just half a day.

## **History**

### **Founding**

**Overview**

In November 2020, Britannia's Labour Party left both their Coalition partners in the 11th LeftCo Government, and later in the 7th CentreCo Government. This angered all political parties and their supporters, but especially the two biggest parties who felt betrayed by Labour leaving their coalition and trying to pass Votes of No Confidence against them in Parliament. These especially angry parties were the Contean Block and Socialist Party of Polynesia, who made up all far-left and centrist-to-moderate-right voter bases.

**No Faith in Parliament**

In addition, faith in the Parliamentary system of Government was falling as Labour was constantly able to get high approval ratings and win elections despite a growing amount of opposition members (this is due to Labour being able to over-inflate their numbers since they had the support of old players and were generally more politically active). Following Labour's dramatic exit from the Contean Block's 7th LeftCo Government, all politically active members of the playerbase started secret talks to completely overhaul the Government and reform it from the ground-up.

**Sealand's Idea and Start of the Party**

Sealand lead the charge for the reformation idea (shown in the image to the right), giving his ideas to the Centrist

Contean Block's Tsar\_\_Putin and later the Conservative UNB who both liked the idea. The Liberal Party's Cosmic, all other members of the Contean Block, and Enrique of the Socialist Party all soon rallied behind Sealand's idea. On December 2nd 2020, Tsar announced the formation of the People's Party and its intentions to reform the RoP's political system, and Tsar was agreed on by the members to be the Party's candidate to be Prime Minister as he was the nation's most prominent Centrist figurehead which allowed him to compromise with the more *radical*  elements of the party better.

### **Actions in Their Only Government**

**Election Victory**

The People's Party won easily in the December 4, 2020 Federal Election; winning 5/10 seats in Parliament and forming a coalition with Cosmic's Liberal Party. Cosmic decided to leave the People's Party last-minute to stay as the Liberal Party's candidate but still wanted to cooperate with the People's Party.

**Policy**

Upon Sealand rejoining the party following the Rising of December 3rd, Tsar formed a Cabinet (positions are in the "Members" section, note that Cosmic was made the Minister of Urban Development). The party first focused on creating actual Provinces in a concrete fashion, instead of just making them exist in law. On December 8-10 2020, Parliament approved the creation of the following Provinces: Atlantis, North Sea, and Nova Contea. Parliament also approved the creation of the Federal Lands District of *Ashton* (Capital) on December 10th, and the Federal Lands District of *Combat District* (Where war games in a Coliseum, weapon testing, and combat training would take place) on December 14th. After negotiations spanning December 12th-14th 2020 with Britannia, Harold, and Dyslexic, the RoP's first-ever military base was officially paid for and resource gathering started. The base would be called "Fort Tabantha" and be located in the Nether in Nova Contea Province to protect entry to Tabantha Peaks and VoS.

**Reforms and Constitution Changes**

On December 15th 2020, Parliament passed the People's Party proposal to change the Constitution, which completely overhauled the nation's Legislative Branch of Government. Governors replaced MPs, the Speaker of the House position was embedded into Constitutional Law, changing/amending/replacing/editing the Constitution now required double the "yes" votes than "no" votes, and Religious and Peaceful Assembly Rights were given to all in the RoP. These accomplishments were one of Tsar's and Sealand's most proud accomplishments.

### **Disbanding**

After all its goals (plus extra accomplishments) were achieved, Prime Minister Tsar called a snap election for Wednesday December 16th, 2020. Originally he planned to wait until Friday the 18th so that the Federal Midterm Poll wouldn't be missed and so a new Prime Minister had the weekend to get things done better, but the Socialist Party members insisted on a Snap Election happening on Wednesday the 16th instead. Since that would normally be the day when the Federal Midterm Poll would be released to the public, Tsar decided to hold an unofficial poll for Wiki Recording purposes 2 days before Election Day. The Prime Minister polled 68%, Deputy Prime Minister polled 78%, the Cabinet polled 70%, and The Opposition polled 46%. On Election Day, as planned, the People's Party disbanded with great satisfaction in its members and all party members went their own separate ways.