Reformed National Party (Monsilva)

Reformed National Party 改革国民党 (Gǎigé Guómíndǎng)
Leader	Bao Hsueh
Shadow Senate Leader	Ma Chuntao
Founded	August 1830 (1830-08) April 1954 (1954-04) (current form)
Preceded by	National Party
Headquarters	RNP Headquarters 63 Guangfu North Road, Amking 00082
Membership (2022)	200,500
Ideology	Conservatism Economic liberalism Monsilvan nationalism
Political position	Centre-right to right-wing
National affiliation	Nationalist Coalition
International affiliation	International Conservative Alliance
Colours	Blue
Slogan	"就是无论你走到哪里，都要用心去做" ("Wherever you go, go with all your heart")
Legislative Assembly	115 / 510
Senate	27 / 85
State Parliament members	261 / 1,260

The Reformed National Party (Monsilvan: 改革国民党; Pinyin: Gǎigé Guómíndǎng) or the RNP, is one of the three main parties in the Monsilvan Republic, along with the FDP and the Liberal Party. It is also the current opposition party, having been so since the 2023 federal election. The party became the governing party in the 2016 federal election, after they had been the largest opposition party since their loss in the 1996 federal election, but lost again under Xu Yan in 2023. The party is on the centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological factions, the two largest being the "Soft Rights" and the "Hard Rights". The "Hard Rights" associate with more nationalistic ideas and would be considered a right-wing faction as opposed to the centre-right, which would be the "Soft Rights". The party currently has 115 Members of the Legislative Assembly, 27 Senators and 261 State Parliament members. The RNP is also the leading party in 4 state parliaments: Leibo, Nanyan, Weishi and Xishanjia. In 2024, it formed an association agreement with the Conservative Party of Shaoyu (which also joined the Nationalist Coalition) whereby the RNP would not run any candidates in Shaoyu as long as the CPS follows the party's core ideals. Members of the Reformed National Party are often referred to as "Nationals" or "国民人".

History

The RNP was founded in August 1830 with the establishment of the Kingdom of Monsiva after the Monsilvan Civil War. It was originally known as the National Party, and was the third largest party in parliament until the 1908 general election, when it became the second largest. In the second 1913 general election, the National Party, lead by Mao Yanlin, became the leading party in parliament, and therefore became the party in government with Mao Yanlin becoming the first National Party prime minister. Under Mao, the National Party gathered lots of popularity amongst the people and assisted Monsilva in growing as an economy. When Mao Yanlin stepped down at the 1928 general election, Su Zian took over. Su Zian was not well liked amongst both Monsilvan people and the National Party's own members, although he ended up dying from liver cancer just before the 1933 general election. Su was replaced by Heng Lei, who lead the National Party through 4 elections, winning them all. Although the 1933 election left the National Party in a minority government, they managed to regain their popularity through further improvements to the healthcare and education systems. The 1943 Monsilvan general election saw the National Party win the largest majority any party has ever won in Monsilvan democratic history, with a 79% of seats.

The National Party faced a lot of political trouble after the death of the well-loved Qing Emperor in October 1943. The new Wang Emperor was infamous for being extremely generous with his wealth, which lead to constant media trouble and government intervention. However, the Wang Emperor was strongly supported by the National Party's largest opposition, the Leaders of Parliament Party. Wang's political influence allowed him to slowly blackmail National Party members into resigning, which is commonly correlated to their loss in the 1953 general election. This lead to the reformation of the party in 1954, which was when the party was renamed the Reformed National Party.

After the 1978 Monsilvan protests, the Reformed National Party was the largest economic and political contributor to the Monsilvan Revolutionary Army, as the leader of the MRA, Xu Zhou-da was also the Leader of the RNP. When the Monsilvan Republic was established in December 1978, Xu Zhou-da became Monsilva's first president and the first prime minister of the republican government. He remained both president and prime minister until the 1980 general election, where he formally stepped down as prime minister and was succeeded by Hsu Xue-zhou who won the election. In 2020, after the unanimous coalition agreement in parliament, the RNP formed the Nationalist Coalition with two other parties, the People's New Party and Innovate Monsilva.

Policy

The party has generally adopted liberal economic policies favouring free markets. The party has also taken a privately negative stance on communism with subtle propaganda against communist regimes in Zloveshchiy and formerly Ajakanistan. However Xu Yan, prime minister from 2016 to 2023 and former leader of the RNP announced in 2019 that the party and the government "have no official stance on global communism, as there are more pressing issues our country faces". The party has taken various approaches towards the Ostlandet Union (OU), with the majority of the party being pro-union, but the party contains OU-sceptic factions within it. The party also has a strong policy on 'uniting' the Monsilvan people and encouraging the integration of foreign-born citizens into Monsilvan lifestyle and culture. This ideology is commonly referred to in Monsilva as 'Monsilvan nationalism', and has faced some scrutiny for having references to fascist nationalist culture, which has been frequently denied by the party, with them citing that they lead the fight against fascism in Monsilva in the 1970s.

See also

• Federal government of Monsilva
• Freedom and Democracy Party (Monsilva)
• Liberal Party of Monsilva
• Politics of Monsilva
• List of political parties in Monsilva