Rural Alliance (Sober Thought)

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Sober Thought
Political Party
Name: Rural Alliance
Logo: RuralAllianceLogo.jpg
Nickname: none
Spectrum: Moderate Right
Powerbase: Rural areas generally, Pastbeshchye and Bristle Island especially
Ministers: not in coalition government

The Rural Alliance is a political party in Sober Thought.

It is a small tent party representing small agricultural owner-operators who are moderate conservatives. As such, its political fortunes and futures are closely entertwined with otherwise very similar big tent Conservative Party. The biggest policy differences are on the perceived need for greater provincial autonomy and the importance of agriculture, and the biggest demographic difference is the rural base. If either or both of these factors were to become weaker or insignificant, the continued existence of the Alliance as a separate party would be in jeopardy.

It is also broadly similary to the extremist Christian Unity Party. However, since both parties' representation hovers around 10 seats in the House of the Federation, there seems little point in forming closer political ties on an institutional basis.

Two groups of potential RA voters suffering from competing cleavages are worthy of note: Rural francophone residents of Hochelaga who are also drawn to the Parti hochelagais and small town fiscal conservative residents in the other provinces to the Free Enterprise Party. And pity a poor, small town, socially conservative francophone Braunekustien(ne) who can also add the Liberal Democratic party to the menu!

When the Conservatives lure the Alliance into a government coalition, the RA neither seeks nor accepts more than one or two vice ministries in the Ministry of Community Connections and an assurance that some of the ties that bind provinces to the federal government are loosened.