Deltaria

[Rogue]

Tsargrad - A highly popular Prime Minister, systemic disadvantages and a population not familiar with democracy. Being a oppossition party in current day Deltaria is no easy task. In the past few years, the SRS (Social Democratic Labour Party) has been the primary oppossition party to the ruling KDU. With a social democratic signature, the party has tried to appeal to the working class, while at the same time seeking ground with conservative minded people in rural areas. The SRS may be the main example of oppossition hardship. Its leaders have been confronted with several lawsuits, primarily from monarchist alligned organizations, all seeking to prevent the left-leaning party from gaining further ground. Media, while recently liberalized, still highly favors covering KDU and conservative minded news and the SRS has even seen its funding cut off on multiple occassions by state institutions. 

But the SRS is not just the only party facing hardship. Savez!, the liberal party of the blue march leader Krsmanović, had the wind in its sails at the beginning of Deltarian democracy. People liked  Krsmanović for his fight for democracy and his party seemed ready to take power. But when election day came closer, many shifted to the conservative KDU in the hope for stability and common sense leadership. Savez! was seen as to radical, to keen on overthrowing monarchy and a party seeking change at a faster rate then Deltaria could handle. Since that third place five years ago, the party never recovered. Krsmanović himself has since moved on and is no longer part of the party and the party its many supporting organizations have since been hampered by heavy state regulations, largely put in place by the KDU government. While the party holds up hope for a liberal breakthrough, it seems that the conservative elite has entrenched itself firmly. 

What is left of the dreams that followed the March on the Duha is a fragmented democracy. A democracy that functions like any other, but is hampered by Deltarian political culture and a deeply conservative society. Despite Horvat his attempts at liberalization, his own party has used its power to diminish the voice of oppossition parties and media is, despite being nominally independent, still not used to their new role as guardians of a democratic society. Oppossition in Deltaria is a art in and of itself, the only thing it needs is someone to master that art for it to become a effective tool to keep a majority government in check.