What the parties say

Movement for Democracy

“The Long Winter was not an administrative failure. It was the predictable result of abolishing the only mechanism that tells anyone where a scarce thing is most needed. We queued for lenses while a warehouse in Quintorum held four thousand pairs, and the reason nobody knew is that nothing in the system was transmitting that information. Three rounds of negotiation is not a substitute for a price; it is a committee meeting held eighteen million times.”

The Movement asks for exchange at market prices with states outside the Bloc, which Articles 6 and 265(1)(b) place beyond the reach of any majority, and for that limit to be revisited under Title XII.

Social Democrats

“We do not want the commons sold. We want the Republic to stop pretending that a regulated market in shoes threatens social ownership of the grid. The 2024 text abolished money and produced a black market within four months, which is what happens when you leave people no lawful way to do a lawful thing. Article 111 is an improvement and it is still a coupon.”

The Social Democrats have never been in government and have never exceeded five per cent.

National Traditionalists

“A man who plants a tree may not leave it to his son. Article 74(5) is the whole of your philosophy in one line: the Republic will tolerate what you own and never what you build. You have replaced inheritance with allocation and called it dignity.”

The party has existed since 1947, has never exceeded eight per cent, and has never been banned. It was one of the two parties classified under the 2024 safeguard power, an episode which is the main reason that power no longer exists.

Highlands Federation

“We are not arguing about ownership. We are arguing about who pays for the transition. The fossil phase-out closes pits in Vandorum and Kelvaqui, the replanting schedule begun in 1983 is funded at roughly half what the schedule assumed, and Article 181 has been read for thirty years as a formula. It states an entitlement. Equalisation is owed as of right. Owe it.”

Shelter and Provision

“We are the largest new party in a century because the Republic could not put roofs over people in an economy that owns every roof. That is not an argument against social ownership. It is an argument against a constitution that declared a right to housing and named nobody to deliver it. We supported this text, and we will hold it to Article 41(2) in court every year until the waiting lists are gone.”

Environment and Justice

“The steady state is the whole argument. An economy that must grow will breach any ceiling you set for it eventually, whoever owns it, because the pressure is structural and not moral. Social ownership matters to us because it is the only arrangement in which a decision to produce less does not immediately impoverish the people who were producing.”