Parti Socialiste

The **Socialist Party** (French: *Parti Socialiste*) is the dominant political party in Beauce. It officially espouses generally socialist beliefs, but its policies are more a mix of market socialism, social democracy, corporatism, agrarianism and democratic socialism. It has been nicknamed "the Big Tent" due to the known fact that it harbors sympathizers of liberalism, conservatism, and other generally capitalist ideologies - ideologies which political parties cannot legally hold in Beauce. Many have attributed its consistent election victories to this very fact, as it offers - by far - the least radical programme out of all legal Beaucean parties. As of 2068, only one Beaucean president has not been a member of the Socialist Party.

The Socialist Party is the continuation of a party of the same name which originated in pre-collapse France - having been founded in 1969. Since the 2017 elections, the party hadn't won any French presidential elections and had been generally in decline. After the collapse, however, as socialist and generally radical ideas gained popularity, it was only natural that the new Socialist Party would see a rise in popularity. Although it lost the first elections in the Commonwealth of Chartres, it almost won the second elections. As businesses had a large influence in government - and the party openly supported workers' rights -, the party saw them as its enemy and naturally sided with the CGT in the Chartres Revolution. At the time, it was considerably more left-wing than it would later be, so - thanks to its 37% hold on the legislature - it was one of the main forces behind the revolution.

In the Soviet Security Council, it was the party which possessed the most delegates and was even given the privilege nominate the body's Vice-President, who would break any ties in voting. It was the main force behind the creation of a professional armed forces, the halting of antitheism, and the implementation of market socialist and mixed economy policies. It was the winner of the first Beaucean elections - a result which would repeat itself many more times -, giving it free reign to implement its crowning policy of "Capitalism in the Village, Socialism in the City".

After the considerably popular Radical Party of the Left (French: *Parti radical de gauche*) was banned for having promoted policies viewed as "capitalist", the majority of its members migrated to the PS. Thus, the Left-Radical wing of the party was formed; to date, it is the most liberal out of all factions within the party. The acceptance received by these new members motivated several other, more right-wing groups to join the party, resulting in a gradual shift to the right - especially in social policy.

**Policy**

The Pari Socialiste is known for its moderate socialist - sometimes even corporatist - approach to economic policy, and more right-wing approach to social policy. The "Big Tent" is made up of several factions, but the dominant one, nicknamed "CorpoSocialists", is what has shaped most of the party's policy.

Economic policy is dominated by the maxim "Capitalism in the Village, Socialism in the City", whereby smaller enterprises and farms are still privately owned and operated, while larger operations are collectivized and democratized. Thus, economic policy regroups aspects of both corporatism and syndicalism. Additionally, the National Corporations Law is a direct parallel to corporatist states, while still keeping aspects of a command economy; the corporations are all controlled by the government and indirectly control collectivized operations, but when it comes to private enterprises, they can only advise and conduct normal business.

Social policy, as stated above, is more right wing. In particular, the PS has been a proponent of a strong law enforcement and prison system, protection for religious groups, patriotism, criminalisation of drugs. WIP