Abeldane National Union

Abeldane National Union
Leader	Patrick Renwick
Deputy	Vacant
Founded	27 November 2017 (as NFP) 29 May 2020 (as ANU)
Merged into	National Royalists
Headquarters	Volkania, Demirelia
Membership (2020)	12
Ideology	Monarchism Federalism Nationalism Bicameralism Pro-GUM
Political position	Centre to Centre-right
Colors	Red
Anthem	ANU Party Anthem
Party flag

The Abeldane National Union, commonly referred to as the National Union or by its abbreviation ANU, and formerly known as Populares, was a centre-right political party in Abelden. It was, at the time of its dissolution, the oldest party in the Abeldane Empire.

Its last leader was Patrick Renwick, who took the lead following the ascension of Nicholas Kaos to the Abeldane throne on 29 May 2020. The party was originally founded as the National Federalist Party by Alejandro Whyatt on November 2017 and was renamed to Die Rechte on June 2018 after Stephen Freayth became the party's leader. It was then renamed to Populares on June 2019, before finally becoming the Abeldane National Union in May 2020.

The party was throughout nearly all of its history the governing party in Abelden, holding a majority or plurality of the seats in the Reichsversammlung, the legislature of the Empire. For much of its history, it had its own sister party in Alenshka, the People's Party, before the AVP decided to terminate the alliance in May 2020.

History

Whyatt's leadership

In the December 2017 federal election, the three-week-old Federal Nationalist Party was able to garner eight first-preference votes giving them 17.4% of the vote. The party would gain 2 new members between the time of the RVS vote and the that of the Vortsitzender and Stellverter vote. The Vorsitzender election gave 12 1st preferential votes to leader Whyatt and 5 votes to Deputy of the party Michael Brazaue. The NFP made an election agreement with the URP and so were made the coalition government. With Whyatt being given the Foreign Ministership and Nikola Jovanovic(party chairman) being given the newly created Guilds Commission as it was the NFP’s election promise.

In the wake of the election, the NFP had a defection from newly elected ANIP MP, Alex Hapsburg. This move was but a week after the election and had calls from many sides for the seat to be given to ANIP candidates. In the end, Hapsburg resigned the seat and an ANIP candidate was allowed to take the seat. At the same time, the Emperor took away ANIP’s extra seat. Shortly after, Michael Brazaue was suspended from the party with his role as deputy being given to Hapsburg. Not long after this, Michael publicly attacked the party and Whyatt (calling him a pedophile) and gave up his membership.

In the April 2018 federal election, the NFP lead the polls for many weeks garnering between 30% and 40% of the vote regularly. The party doubled its votes from 8 to 16 which represented a 15.9% increase on the December election results. The April election showed the NFP to be the only party to increase on its vote share. The NFP gained the highest share of the vote of any single un-merged party in the history of RVS elections at 33.3% of the vote. It also represents the largest vote-share for any right of the centre party and is the only Right of the centre party in Abelden.

Freayth's leadership

Following the inactivity in government under Whyatt's term as Vorsitzender, Stephen Freayth joined the party and was elected as Leader. He reformed the party and renamed the party to Die Rechte, which stands for The Right in German, and changed the party colour from yellow to dark red. A snap election was held on June 2018 which saw Freayth and Max Pollack, running for Vorsitzender and Stellvertreter respectively, elected in a landslide and the party gaining 10 out of 18 seats in the Reichsversammlung, the first party to achieve an absolute majority in the house. Freayth would continue to lead the party, now known as Populares, until late 2019, when he resigned.

Kaos' leadership

Following Freayth’s resignation, Nicholas Kaos became party leader. Kaos’ leadership would see the party gain a majority in the Reichsversammlung in the December 2019 general election. In the following March 2020 executive elections, the parties candidates for both executive offices: Patrick Renwick for Vorsitzender and Nicholas Randouler for Stellvertreter, we’re elected, and the single-party Sixth Renwick ministry formed. Kaos would resign as party leader at the end of May 2020, following his unexpected ascension to the Imperial Throne with the abdication of Emperor Newton.

Renwick’s leadership

Patrick Renwick, the party’s deputy leader and the Vorsitzender became party leader following Kaos’ resignation. Renwick’s first act as leader was to rename the party to the Abeldane National Union. The party would suffer a number of blows during Renwick’s leadership. The death of its popular deputy leader Nicholas Randouler in early June left the party without a working majority in the Reichsversammlung. In the lead up to the June 2020 election the party suffered a number of defections. In the election it suffered a dramatic defeat, dropping to 4th place and losing 5 of its 6 seats. Following this, the party merged with the Party of Royalists and Greens to form the National Royalists - The Green Union.

Electoral performance

Vorsitzender

Election year	Candidate	Votes	%	Rank	Outcome
2017 V	Alejandro Whyatt	12	21.82	3rd	Not elected
2018 I	Alejandro Whyatt	25	52.08	1st	Elected
2018 II	Stephen Freayth	42	91.30	1st	Elected
2018 III	Stephen Freayth	31	81.58	1st	Elected
2018 IV	Shiro Mephistopheles	18	47.37	2nd	Not elected
2019 I	Nicholas Randouler	14	48.28	2nd	Not elected
2019 II	Nicholas Randouler	7	29.17	2nd	Not elected
2020 I	Patrick Renwick	31	91.18	1st	Elected

Stellvertreter

Election year	Candidate	Votes	%	Rank	Outcome
2017 V	Michael Brazeau	5	10.87	3rd	Not elected
2018 I	—
2018 II	Max Pollack	46	100.00	1st	Elected
2018 III	Max Pollack	17	44.74	2nd	Not elected
2018 IV	Nicholas Kaos	35	92.11	1st	Elected
2019 I	Charlotte Katrinsdottir	19	65.52	1st	Elected
2019 II	Nicholas Kaos	14	58.33	1st	Elected
2020 I	Nicholas Randouler	21	61.76	1st	Elected

Legislative

Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Rank	Government	Ref.
2017 V	8	17.4	3 / 17	▲ 1	4th	Coalition
2018 I	16	33.3	5 / 18	▲ 2	2nd	Coalition
2018 II	—	—	10 / 18	▲ 5	1st	Majority
2018 III	28	70.0	7 / 11	▼ 3	1st	Coalition
2018 IV	17	62.1	8 / 12	▲ 1	1st	Coalition
2019 I	19	47.5	6 / 12	▼ 2	1st	Coalition
2019 II	24	60.0	8 / 13	▲ 2	1st	Coalition	until Apr 2020
						Majority	from Apr 2020
2020 I	9	15.8	1 / 13	▼ 7	4th	Opposition