Free Rightist Party (Gapla)

Free Rightist Party
Chairperson	Wyatt Baek
Ideology	Majority: Paleolibertarianism Right-libertarianism Social conservativism Fiscal conservativism Factions: Right-wing populism Gaplan nationalism
Political position	Right-wing
European affiliation	European Conservatives and Reformists (unofficial)
Council of Ministers	2 / 6

The Free Rightist Party (FRP) is a right-wing, libertarian, and conservative political party in the Federated States of Gapla.

The result of a merger of the Free Libertarian Party and the Grand Conservative Party as a result of the Gaplan "red wave," a period of an overflow of new socialist citizens into the country, the party is currently in government and holds both the offices of the President (head of government) and the Speaker of the National Assembly. It holds six seats in the National Assembly and is the leading party in the government.

Contrary to popular belief, the founder of the party is not Wyatt Baek or Emma Bunnell, but actually Renaldo Chang, who founded the party as the "Grand Conservative Party." However, the origins of the party date back to the early Monarchist Party, active in the Principality of Gapla, which was founded by Tessa Huffmire, a close friend of Emma's, and the Liberal Union Party, also active in the Principality, founded by Wyatt Baek.

History

Early days

The Free Rightist Party can be traced back to the early Monarchist Party, founded by Tessa Huffmire as a right-wing alternative to the Liberal Union Party, which represented the Gaplan left. The Liberal Union Party was actually founded by Wyatt Baek as a center-left party, but is today considered to be center-right on the global political spectrum outside of Gapla, which had leaned to the right of the political spectrum.

After the Liberal Union Party dominated the politics of Gapla, many hard-left members started joining the party, such as Chelsea Chen and Mirabelle Wang. This created a center-right block and a left-wing block of the Liberal Union Party, effectively turning the party into a big tent party.

After Gapla was turned into a constitutional monarchy as the Federated States of Gapla, the Liberal Union Party split, with some merging with members of the Monarchist Party to create the Grand Conservative Party, and the rest of the Liberal Union Party forming the Progressive Movement. As some rare further left members of Gapla remained, they formed the minor party of the People's New Socialist Party, which effectively split the left and gave the right a lead in elections. The Progressive Movement later merged into the People's New Socialist Party.

The red wave

The Free Rightist Party was formed in its current iteration as a merger between the Grand Conservative Party and the Free Libertarian Party to create unified right-wing party to compete against the growing left, which had merged into the People's Liberal Party following the "red wave."

After the "red wave," a large wave of very left-wing Gaplan citizens coming from abroad, the formerly dominant right wing of the country felt the need to unite against left-wing forces, which was growing much larger. Eventually, Gapla effectively became a two-party system before the Socialist Republic Party, a far-left party, split from the then-People's New Socialist Party (now the People's Liberal Party) after realizing that the party was mostly social democratic, not socialist as the former name alleged.

Modern era

In modern times, the Free Rightist Party, after the large voterbase collapse of the People's Liberal Party and the FRP's famous rally in the Venado Middle School Symphonic Orchestra, won the 2022 Gaplan general election by a hefty margin, and gained six of ten seats in the National Assembly, with the People's Liberal party only winning two.

As tensions rise between the conservative and libertarian factions of the party, there have been talks of a re-split in the Free Rightist Party into the Grand Rightist Party, a social conservative and right-wing populist party, and the Alliance for Liberty and Capitalism, a right-wing libertarian and culturally liberal party.