Humanist Socialist Party

The party holds that the purpose of an economy is the satisfaction of registered human need, and that ownership of the means of production by the whole people is the condition of that purpose being served. It takes the human person, and not the class, the nation or the state, as the unit whose needs are to be met. It is the sense in which the party calls itself humanist.

Its municipalism follows from the same position. The party holds that a decision should be taken at the level closest to the people it affects, and that the commune is the ordinary level for most decisions.

Its technocratic strand holds that the plan requires trained staff and published method, and that expertise answers to the elected councils and does not replace them. Its mutualism is the older element in the party and survives in its support for cooperative federation between enterprises.

The party supported the draft throughout the Convention, campaigned for it at the referendum of 7 June 2026, and proposes no amendment to any part of it.

The party has held office in some combination for a century and drafted much of the text now in force. A substantial part of the electorate describes it as the party of the existing order. Its answer is that the order it is said to defend is fifteen months old and is not yet complete.

Answering the charge of entrenchment

Candidate selection opens to any member of the list at the district assembly, and the order of preference expressed by the voters under Article 120(5) replaces the order set by the members.

A stated proportion of the candidates placed in positions from which a member is likely to be returned stand for election for the first time. And the party publishes a timetable of dated commitments, so that a voter can compare what was promised at the election with the record at the end of the term.

Article 120(5)Article 122

The implementation timetable

The party has published a date for each organic law that the transitional provisions require: the minimum core specified in quantities, the catalogue of general provision, the formula of allocation between territories, and the opening of the first planning cycle.

It proposes that the Office of Democratic Integrity state, in its annual report under Article 261, which of those commitments were met by their date and which were not. The Office is independent of the parties and the party does not draft its report.

Article 41(5)Article 331(4)Article 333Article 261

Housing

The party accepts the demand of Shelter and Provision that the housing minimum core be fixed in quantities before the first plan takes effect, and that the periods left open by Article 65(4) and (5) be set short. Housing was the subject on which the party lost most support in 2025, and it has published this position as a change from the one it held then.

Article 65Article 41(5)

Opposition to the far right

The party opposes the parties of the far right in Europe and works against them wherever it has a partner that does the same. It has published a document on the subject, which the register reproduces in full.

Read the document: On the far right in Europe

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The party supports the Confederal Group of the European United Left and Nordic Green Left, and maintains working relations with the member parties of that group. It seeks to widen those relations, and to make the arrangements of the Republic known to parties abroad that may adopt parts of them, through regular contact with parties in office and in opposition in their own states.

Every such contact is subject to Article 302(3), which forbids any transfer that has a condition touching the internal affairs of the recipient. The party supports Ukraine. It takes no position favourable to Russia and has taken none since 2014.

"We are a small state outside the Union and we have no army worth a name. What we have is a working example and an obligation to let people read it. Affiliation is how we do that."

Humanist Socialist Party, Programme for the first Assembly, section 11

Article 296Article 302(3)

In the quarterly survey published by communal press at Lindoma, 41 per cent of respondents describe the party favourably and 44 per cent unfavourably, the widest split of any list in the chamber. Fifty-two per cent say they would consider voting for it, which is the highest figure recorded for any party and the ground on which the projection gives it a recovery.

Its support is strongest in Lindoma, Sornorum and Leriduson, and among respondents over fifty. Among respondents under thirty-five it stands third, behind Environment and Justice and Shelter and Provision. Asked to give a reason for an unfavourable answer, respondents most often name the Long Winter and the Safeguard declaration of 2025.