Liberal-Conservative Party
Liberal-Conservative Party | |
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| Name | Liberal-Conservative Party |
| Abbreviation | LCP |
| Party leader | Dan Tilabyss |
| Founder | Toyota Clemenceau |
| Founded | May 7, 2024 |
| Merger of | Liberal Caucus, Conservative Party |
| Membership | 17 |
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| Political Position | Center to Right Wing |
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| Senate Seats | 5 / 9
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| Eastern Regional Assembly Seats | 1 / 5
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| Mayors | 6 / 24
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The Liberal-Conservative Party is a major political party within the Republic of Faru. It is a big tent party comprised of Tories and Liberals, it was created by Toyota Clemenceau shortly after the May 2024 Senate Elections, as a way to form a more united front against the Farun Labor Front.
History
The Liberal-Conservative party's origins can mostly be traced to Chaton Loupius' Liberal Caucus, an Urbisian political movement advocating for a strong unitary and centralized government, as well as free markets. The movement lived on as a semi party organism up until the 1919 elections, where it won a single senate seat, and had to reckon with the socialist movement's plurality in the senate. Around that time, a group called the "right tent", organized by Toyota Clemenceau, was formed. Originally meant as a loose alliance between the anti socialist liberals and conservatives, Aleksandr Novak, Maon Vukusti and Nikola Vulovic organized it into a proper party.
The party has been the longest and most stable group in Farun politics, being the only one to appear in every election and senate since the founding of the republic. It always existed in the space between the center and hard right of farun politics, swinging between more progressive and conservative eras depending on leadership, circumstances and internal factionalism.
1920 (May 2024)
On May 7th, the party held its first assembly in Cerise following a church service at the local Cubeaist church, in an event now retroactively known as the first Liberal Conservative National Convention. The attendees were Nikola Vulovic, Maon Vukusti, Æsël Blanch, Aleksandr Novak and Party Secretary Toyota Clemenceau. Few topics were covered, mostly negative, there was a strong anti cossack sentiment as well as a strong anti socialist sentiment.
Following the convention, Velik iz Dunska was elected premier by the Liberal-Conservative Senate caucus with the confidence of the Whig Party. It was during this time that the Liberal-Conservatives developed a senatorial ideology, due to president Wanda Ward Jr.'s absentism. Many powers and ministries were centralized into the senate, and the public assembly was intentionally castrated as to make the senate more powerful. The Dunska government also created the Farun Lira, the official currency of the Republic of Faru.
1921-1922 (June-July 2024)
The Dunska cabinet continued into the next year, surviving the senate elections, even gaining a seat though remaining a minority government. The main defining feature of this era was the cohabitation between a more hands on president and the senatorial Liberal-Conservatives.
Later in the year, the leadership of the party was handed over from Clemenscau to then senator Maon Vukusti, who tried organizing the party for next year's major elections, hoping to make some gains and solidify a majority in the senate.
Vukusti, dissatisfied with the state of the party organized a third national convention, the first one being officially labeled as a "Liberal-Conservative National Convention", where he made several changes to the organization, such as instituting an official charter, and separating the party leadership into two posts, the Party President, a figurehead tasked with promoting the party, and the Party Secretary, a powerful position that manages the party's internal affairs.
The Liberal-Conservatives held strong following the election, however, due to complications in the July presidential election, president John Mchale dissolved the senate, calling a rare general election. The Liberal-Conservatives lost much ground in the senate, and for the first time in Farun history, were the opposition.
1923 (August 2024)
During this era, the Liberal-Conservatives went through what can be qualified as a dark age, not passing much legislation or doing much of note. The leadership became near absent for a while after senator Vukusti left Faru to treat his injuries following an assassination attempt, until the party held a fourth national convention in the middle of the Farun Bush War, where the niche principalist faction took over and led the party into the next year.
1924 (September 2024)
Under Aesel Blanch's leadership, the party started slowly reconstructing itself, gaining a seat in the september elections and returning to government by allying with the short lived Farun Shield Party. The senate however fell into a disorganized state, where it struggled to meet, and thus not much was done with this position.
Late in the year, Vukusti returned to Faru, and started making moves to regain control over the party, culminating in the fifth Liberal Conservative National convention, where he became party secretary again, alongside Dan Tilabyss' party presidency. Together with the advice of the convention, they built a new platform for the party, the first one since June, and officialized the factions within the party as "Caucuses".
Organization and internal politics
The party follows a fairly standard structure, having a Party President for external affairs, a Party Secretary for internal affairs, and a Party Whip for senatorial affairs. The president and secretary are selected by the National Convention, while the whip is appointed by the party secretary and serves at their pleasure.
Caucuses
Several factions within the party have organized themselves into caucuses, interest groups that want to push the party in one direction or another and have different ideas of what the official national platform should be, those are:
The National Mandate Caucus, a coalition of Tories and Principalists focused on a more paternalistic economic approach, alongside a promotion of traditional farun values.
The New Liberal Caucus, a group of Liberals focused on a more free market and socially progressive approach.
The United Conservatives of the Liberal-Conservative Party, an alliance of Conservatives in favor of a moderate economic policy, as well as a more pragmatic approach to governance than the National Mandate Caucus.
As of now, all three have about equal influence over the party, and competition gets fierce, but in the end they all come together as one party and fall in line when the greater good of the movement is in jeopardy.
Current structure
| Position | Member | Caucus | Took Office | |
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| Party President | Dan Tilabyss | New Liberal | September 29, 2024 | |
| Party Secretary | Maon Vukusti | United Conservatives | September 29, 2024 | |
| Party Whip | Jonathon Godfrey | National Mandate | August 22, 2024 | |