Urban Party of Rutania

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The Urban Party of Rutania is one of 6 major contemporary political parties in Rutania. The party's socially moderate and neoliberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Rutanian political spectrum. Since 3064, the party has the lengthiest record of continuous operation in the country.

Following elections in 3304, the Urban Party holds 75 seats in the Parliament and 0 Governorships.

=History=

Modern Era
=Names and Symbols= Initially calling itself the "National Party," they were commonly labled them "Progressives" by the oppressive socialist party, ruliing at the with the hope of stigmatizing them as conservative liberals who in their words "seeked to dismantle the glorious utopia and establish mob rule". Following the PRF incident, the party switched it's name to the "Urban Party of Rutania". To this day, people affiliated with the party are still refered to as "Progressives".

=Interest Groups and Affiliations=

Affiliations
=Ideology=

Since the inception of the party in 3064, the Urban Party has favored centre-left positions and been an advocate of the Third Way. Historically, the party has favored farmers, laborers, labor unions, and ethnic minorities; it supports unregulated business and finance, and favored progressive income taxes. In foreign policy, internationalism (including interventionism) is a dominant theme. In recent decades, the party has adopted a fiscally conservative economic and socially moderate agenda, with the voter base having shifted considerably. Today, Progressives advocate more social freedoms, free trade initiatives, balanced budgets and a free enterprise system with little government intervention.

=Leadership=

=Election Information=

Electoral Results
=Links= Rutania