Social-Populist Party

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Not to be confused with the Social Populists, a similar party which split from the KSPP.

Kryfona Social-Populist Party
Kryfona Sozejal-Paplaisim Paszem
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Political Ideology Social populism
Populism
Nationalism
Secessionism
Political Position Kryfona-far-left
Political Compass
Economic Left/Right
N/A
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian
N/A
Spekr
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X,Y
Motto
Power to the People
Kryfona: Pezka te an Papla.
Founded April 3rd, 1922
Founder Zaniszje Kaiga
Party Leader Lazigore Kyszx
Secretary Mereze Jezkapils Horia
Headquarters 228 Main Av.
City Uszyaa, Lawv.
Nation Kryfona Kingdom
Organizations
Labor Branch Social-Populist Union
Youth Branch KSPP Youth
Kryfonsparliszaiye
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Provincial parliaments
55 / 1,164

The Kryfona Social-Populist Party (Kryfona: Kryfona Sozejal-Paplaisim Paszem; For. Kryf. /ˈkrɪˌf.nɑ s.z.jɑl pɑ.pl.sm pɑ.sɛm/; KSPP) is a sub-federal party in the Kryfona Kingdom which stands for the ideology of social populism, as well as the ideologies of populism, nationalism, and secessionism to a lesser extent. In Kryfona political terms, the party is considered to be far-left. The party was founded in 1922 as a merger between the Social Government Party and the Party of the Populists, hence the hyphenated Social-Populist name. It is a member of the Old World Social Populist Union (IVSPZ) and affiliated with the Social Populist Group (SPH), a union of Kryfona social populist parties.

The KSPP is the largest social populist party in the Kryfona Kingdom, and one of the larger sub-federal parties in the Kryfona Kingdom. It boasts a membership of just over 196,000 and has active affiliates or branches in every province of the Kryfona Kingdom. Parties under the KSPP or affiliated with it hold seats in 15 of 19 provincial legislatures, 16 of which are in the Yaraan House. The KSPP and its affiliates have also been successful in the legislatures of Kghelias and Elesaqa, in both of which they occupy 6 seats.

The KSPP has been a relatively powerful faction in many provinces, despite holding comparatively small seat numbers to other party blocs such as the Progressive Party and its affiliates. The party has historically been most successful in Yaraa, and is currently a member of the governing majority there; between 1939 and 1951 the party held a plurality of seats in the Yaraan House. The party has also at times held as many as 12 seats in the Lawvsgara House, and as many as 32 in its Senate, both of which it achieved during the 1957 local elections. The party reached its height in 1961, when it was on the cusp of applying for federal campaigning privileges–had the party been granted these privileges, it would have become the fourth federal party. The efforts were brought to a halt in 1962, however, when large swathes of the Western branches of the party, feeling that they were ill-represented in the direction of the party, announced their split from the KSPP to form the Social Populists. Despite efforts to reconcile the "Western Wing," as the dissenting Western branches came to be called, the Social Populists split from the KSPP for good on 1 August, 1963.

The loss of the Western branches of the party dealt a crushing blow to the party's hopes of becoming a federal party. Virtually all of its influence in the western provinces of the Kryfona Kingdom, including its seats in Lawvsgara, disintegrated overnight (all 44 Lawvsgara MPs, along with 20 from Rsza, Areimsede, and Iyarzalhne switched affiliation to the Social Populists). It is estimated that over 180,000 of the then-400,000 party members switched affiliations along with them. The party's application for federal recognition, unsurprisingly, was unceremoniously rejected by the Commission of Federal Elections on 27 August, 1963. Had the party not split, and had it stood in 1963, it is likely they would have won many of the western seats which subsequently were taken by the United Kryfona Party.

Although the party continued to post relatively successful results in the east of the Kingdom, in the aftermath of the party split the party slowly fell out of favor and lost much of its influence. From 1969 until 1993, the party lost provincial seats in all but one election, and in many provinces the vote was split between the KSPP and the Social Populists, leading to a general loss in seats for both parties. Starting in 1994, talks between the Social Populists and the KSPP began in an effort to reconcile the two parties. This led to the Social Populist Assembly in 1995, the first of what is now a biannual meeting between the member parties of the Social Populist Group. Although the parties refused a deal to merge, they agreed to represent their MPs under a single name, the "Social Populist Front." The parties also divided the Kingdom into two halves, with the KSPP representing the eastern half of the Kingdom.

Since 1999, the KSPP has recorded small gains in terms of MPs, and fairly large gains in terms of membership. Although the party is still not nearly as powerful as it was in its heyday, it remains one of the largest parties at the provincial level in the Kingdom. The party is currently led by Lazigore Kyszx, who was elected as leader in 2006.