National Traditionalists

The party holds that a political community is constituted by inherited custom, religion and descent, and that these precede any constitution and are not created by one. It describes the Republic as a nation with a history longer than its present form of government and holds that the form should express that history in a single office.

Its protectionism follows from the same position: production within the territory is preferred to production outside it as a matter of principle. Its populism sets an undifferentiated people against an administrative class, and it names the planning bodies and the five oversight organs as that class.

The party opposed the draft in the Convention and campaigned against it at the referendum. It accepts the result and proposes to reopen the text by the route Article 312 provides, which requires an elected Convention and a referendum.

It records that Article 265, which makes classification by ideology void in every case, protects it, and it has not proposed the repeal of that article. It was itself classified under the safeguard power of 2024, and its expulsion from that classification in 2025 is the case most often cited for the present prohibition.

A head of state

The party wants a single office of head of state, filled either by election or by succession, holding the ceremonial representation of the Republic. Article 145(3) provides that no office has a prerogative, a reserve power or a power of appreciation over an act of the Assembly, and Article 310 places the form of government beyond the amending power, so the proposal reaches the chamber only through a Convention.

Article 145(3)Article 310Article 312

Protection of domestic production

The party wants external exchange restricted further than Article 265 already restricts it, and a preference for domestic production written into law, binding on every plan. It made no proposal in the last chamber that would have required an amendment, and its measures were ruled admissible.

Article 265Article 117

Religion and family in public life

The party opposes Article 11, which makes the Republic secular and forbids public authority to adopt, fund, hinder or privilege any religion or worldview, and it opposes the settlement of Articles 38(2) and 46(3) on sex, gender and reproduction. Both articles sit inside the unamendable core of Article 310, and the route to either is a Convention.

"We were told for many years that the state church was gone and would not return, despite the lack of any official position in the legislation. We ask the Republic to legislate a certain, affirmative position."

National Traditionalists, Programme for the first Assembly, section 4

Article 11Article 38(2)Article 46(3)Article 310

A slower phase-out

The party wants the combustion phase-out schedule extended and the cost of each stage stated by district before that stage begins. The extraction prohibition of Article 32(2) took effect on the day of commencement and the party has not proposed its return.

Article 32(2)Article 330(5)

The party seeks no affiliation abroad and declines external commitments generally. It has taken no position on Ukraine and none on Russia. It opposed the accession of the Republic to any obligation of collective defence, which Article 291 already makes void.

Fifteen per cent of respondents describe the party favourably and 68 per cent unfavourably, the most negative balance recorded for any list. Twelve per cent say they would consider voting for it, and that figure has stood between ten and fourteen per cent since 1974.

Its support is strongest in Halvorum, Belvacius and Marnaqui, and among respondents over sixty-five, where it reaches 16 per cent. The projection gives it a gain of about one point, drawn from respondents who describe themselves as opposed to the settlement of Articles 11, 38(2) and 46(3) and who did not vote in 2025.