Progressive Party of Laeral
Progressive Party of Laeral Parti Progressiste | |
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| President | Tanvi Misra |
| Secretary-General | Chen Ting-fei |
| Deputy Secretary-General | Hervé Soler |
| Leader in the Commons | Émeric André |
| Leader in the General Assembly | Benjamin Lin |
| Chair of the Progressive Governor's Union | Lin Yan-ting |
| Founder | Zhou Wei-lin, Edmond Yeoh, Matthieu Dallaire |
| Founded | December 19, 1965 |
| Preceded by | Social Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | Laeralsford, Laeral |
| Newspaper | En Avant |
| Student wing | Student Progressives |
| Youth wing | Young Progressives of Laeral |
| Women's wing | National Union of Progressive Women |
| LGBT Wing | LGBT Progressives |
| Membership (2016) | 2,100,000 |
| Ideology | Social Democracy |
| Political position | Center-left |
| International affiliation | Progressive and Labor Alliance |
| Colors | Red |
| Anthem | "Progressive March" |
| Assembly of Commons | 80 / 386
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| General Assembly | 17 / 66
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| Provincial Governors/First Ministers | 10 / 33
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| Website | |
| progressiste.org.lr | |
The Progressive Party of Laeral (French: Parti Progressiste) is a center-left, social democratic political party in Laeral. It is one of four major contemporary political parties in Laeral, and is currently in government at the federal level following the 2018 Laeralian Federal Election. The party counts former President Nicholas Brennan and Foreign Minister Tanvi Misra as members. The Progressive Party is currently the second-largest party in the National Assembly.
History
The Progressive Party was formed to contest the 1965 presidential election, which was held following President RRéne Gramont's declaration of a National Emergency and the ensuing crackdown on civil liberties, ending in Gramont's death of a heart attack. The party could trace its roots to the "loyal opposition" that existed under the Republic of Laeral, consisting of independent and opposition party lawmakers within the National Assembly who held policy differences with the dominant Social Democrats but supported the general goals of the Gang of Five and the Rose Revolution. The Progressive Party's chief founders were Zhou Wei-lin, who had left the Social Democrats over the declaration of National Emergency, as well as Edmond Yeoh, who had long dissented with Social Democratic leadership, and Matthieu Dallaire, a long-time Social Democratic member of the National Assembly.
At its founding, the party aimed to represent Laeralites across racial and linguistic lines, reject corruption, and create a just society through equal treatment for all and the elimination of poverty via social-democratic policies. The party's founding document declared that the party was a "social-democratic party, aiming to establish a society in which all Laeralites may seek common prosperity and brotherhood through the equal economic opportunity created by a strong worker's movement." At the 1965 presidential election, the Progressives nominated Edmond Yeoh, who came third in the first-round of the election with 18% of the nationwide vote.