Democratic Progressive Party

The Democratic Progressive Party (Doggish: Demokrase Progressyf Partij, DPP) is a syncretic political party in Doggerland. The party has yet to achieve official party status. The Leader of the party is Javaandpython and the party currently has 4 registered members (Five, if Danni0li joins the party, which he is rumoured to do so). Javaandpython is currently its only DPP member of the National Assembly. It split from the IDP due to disagreements over their leadership. The party is socially centre to centre-right and fiscally left-wing but differs from the IDP on certain key issues. It is more economically left-wing than the IDP but also libertarian in many aspects as well as socially more right-wing.

Foundation
The DPP split from the Independent Democracy Party in February, 2021 due to ideological disagreements among its members. The split was largely motivated by Beady's, the leader of the IDP, failure to place many of his own party members on the IDP list in favor of political acolytes who were required to vote in-favor of bills that he supported. Other motivations included the IDP's stances on drugs, marriage and the Universal Basic Income.

Following the party's elevation to official party status, they adopted a new party platform that was much more moderate on social and economic issues while still stressing the need for economic equality and the support of a traditional constitutional monarchy.

On February 11, 2021 the party adopted a new logo suggested by King Moose in order to better represent the party's ideals.

The current Democratic Progressive Party List is as follows in numerical order:

Ideology
The party is considered to be syncretic with members generally adhering to an array of beliefs across the political spectrum such as communitarianism, paternalistic conservatism, market socialism and monarcho-socialism. The party defines monarcho-socialism as the support of a monarchy adhering to tradition while also supporting economic equality in the form of adopting market socialist principles. The party has a strong focus on economic equality and foreign policy. The party supports Universal Basic Income, public healthcare, public transportation and free higher education as well as a reform of the income and corporate tax brackets to better address wealth inqeuality. The party is also in favor of a higher minimum wage that is adjusted periodically for inflation. The party supports fully democratic workers' unions but also supports the idea of mediation between workers and corporations by the government to lessen the need for unions.

The party supports the European Union but is opposed to "Eurofederalism".

The official policies of the party can be found in their manifesto.

Logo
The party's logo is the abbreviation DPP on an arrow. The arrow is pointing right or forward symbolizing progress.

Internal Referendums
Internal referendums are occasionally held within the DPP to allow for the membership of the party to have a say in the party's direction, typically for major decisions such as leadership elections and party strategy. Some examples are as follows:

First EU Parliamentary Party election
The first DPP referendum was held to determine which EU Parliamentary group and which EU Parliamentary party the Democratic Progressive Party should initially join, the results are as follows:

Second EU Parliamentary Party election
After the adoption of a revised party platform, the DPP again held a new election to vote on which European Parliamentary Party to join. The results are as follows: