Dranish Hosian Alliance

The Dranish Hosian Alliance more popularly known as the DAL is a centrist socially conservative party which was founded in November 3549 in Iglesia Mayor, Ulbrach. Its founding leader was Dr. Enrique Ovalle a former Lorenian politician and Theology Professor, The DHAis a big tent party uniting Hosians of all stripes.

Ideology
Economy

The DHA is economically centrist and wishes to have a free enterprise economy with moderate government interference in order to ensure competitiveness and innovation develops. The party favours a progressive income tax, maintenance of full employment and public-private cooperation in infrastructure and housing projects

Ecology

The party embraces a moderate environmental policy putting the needs of humans and industries before those of animals and plants but nevertheless regulating pollution and preserving forests and fisheries. The party supports increased and speedy industrialisation.

Defence

The DHA supports maintenance of a strong military with access to all types of weaponry. The party favours increased military spending which it views a part of an effective deterrent.

Social Issues

The DHA is moderately conservative on social issues and tends to oppose most alternative societal policies and social liberalism in general.

Devolution

The DHA opposes devolution in general and favours the maintenance of a strong central government.

Foreign policy

The DHA embraces an internationalist foreign policy of ample engagement with foreign nations and intervention in foreign conflicts. The party opposes unrestrained free trade. The DHA proposes to limit immigration to Dranland to 'very small numbers' and supports harsh crackdowns on illegal immigrants.

Structure
The party leader is elected by party members and has to win 50%+1 in order to avoid a run off. A leadership election is triggered if more than half of all MPs sign a statement calling for it. The Vice Chairman is elected in a similar fashion on a separate ballot.

Power in the party is strongly decentralised, with most of it lying in the hands of the provincial parties who nominate national and local candidates. The party also has hundreds of associations across the nation (441) who nominate party delegates who in turn attend party congresses and create the party's national and departmental platforms.

Factions
The DHA has several factions in it the most prominent being the classical liberals, social democrat and conservative populists.

Support
The party's support is strongest amongst low middle class citizens, rural voters, small scale farmers, military families and small town dwellers. Its strongholds are in Ulbrach and Loren

=UTU==

The UTU (Undod-Tong-Il -Unity) is the DHA North Utari Mosirian affiliated party. It is however completely independent administrative wise with occasional election aid from the DHA. It was founded on February 19, 3450. The UTU opposes enhanced autonomy for NUM and is centrist on economic and social issues. Unlike the DHA, the UTU has no religious undercurrents. It enjoys strong support amongst Dranish migrant communities in NUM. It's current President is Brian Paek, a former magistrate.

Under Dr. Enrique Ovalle
Dr. Ovalle and several Hosian activists met hastily in Iglesia Mayor, agreed on a party programme and registered as a political party in November 3549. The party performed strongly, socirng a very strong 35.8% of the vote. Dr. Ovalle quickly negotiated a coalition with the socialist PPD and became Taoiseach of Dranland. In government the DHA pursued full employment, raised school standards and clashed with the quasi separatist fascist dominated government of the DAZ/NUM leading to the founding of the UTU in February 3450.