Minor parties in a Successful Tiananmen Square China

 As promised in my last article I have delivered to you the minor parties of China in this universe where Tiananmen Square succeed.

Important Minor Parties

(I hope the reader will understand why I have not profiled all the minor parties as there were around 1,200 of them registered at this time in China)

East Turkestan National Front

This new Islamist party broke off or more accurately was kicked out of the Minority List for their islamism and separatism but they are two prideful to admit it. Officially they had none of their papers but many supporters in Xinjiang electoral offices which allowed them to run a full slate anyway. They do not have much of a platform except for separatism as they practice absenteeism in the style of Sinn Fein.

Chinese Zhi Gong Party

This is a rather strange party that existed before the revolution but came out of puppetry with a roar as the Chinese Freemasons called the “Heaven and Earth Society” sprinted out of dormancy. The party ideolgically is rather muddled and is seemingly defined by whatever is most popular which they officially just call Reformism but is much closer to a weird kind of anti-liberal liberalism as many papers have said the Zhi Gong is “the CCP to the tune of the People’s Party”. The Zhi Gong has surprisingly lagged politically only picking up 20 seats in Anhui which is not particularly good in a parliament of 1,200 but they received some success in Northern China and the Diaspora seats.

Kuomintang (Chinese Column) 

A faction of the Kuomintang was expected to form but what was not expected was how aggressively the Taiwanese Kuomintang rejected any possibility of a Chinese affiliate though the party continued on in a diminished capacity. The papers mostly agree this Chinese Column of the Kuomintang is an orphan without their brother still limping along traumatized and desperate. Electorally very little has occurred with them winning a small smattering of local seats mostly in Cantonese areas.

Chinese United Democratic Party

This party’s attempt to become the main party of the pro-Tiananmen Square right quickly failed as local Han parties coalesced into the Han National Political Association. The party attempted to act as an average center right party in the style of many other East Asian parties they were socially a tad libertarian and economically very conservative supporting significant economic liberalization. They received little success except for an impressive fourth place showing in Beijing during local and state elections.

Chinese Overseas Party 

This was a unique party that went to bat with the Zhi Gong for their rather strange stranglehold on a suspiciously large voting diaspora. The party which was socially center left and economically libertarian outperformed expectations winning a majority in Europe and the large diaspora of Brazil along with strong showings in many other areas.

Chinese Farming Independents

This group despite using the word “Independents” this group was a rather well organized agrarian party. Ideologically the Chinese Farming Independents are socially center right and economically center left party being the single party that most strongly supports free trade. The Farming Independents have established themselves in rural areas which similarly to the Minority List have gained them a rather large amount of local officials around 3,000 and a small national vote total.

Democracy and Science Forum

The Jiusan Society breaking with their old name was the second of the “democratic parties” of the old regime to break free of it and actually become democratic. They were once an academic focused party and stayed a more academic focused party aligning themselves still loosely with the CCP though socially to the left notably being the most feminist party and going to bat for the One Child Policy controversially in its Pre-Tiananmen Square strict form. They won some local seats and state seats mostly in areas just outside of Beijing. 

Chinese Party for Social Justice

This party held the flag for the elderly surprisingly a task many of the major parties did not have time for. Platform wise the party was broadly socially conservative and economically left wing with a predictable focus on elderly issues such as pensions and healthcare access notably being the party to most strongly defend the old Chinese healthcare system. They won some support in almost the whole nation but not enough anywhere to make any considerable waves.

Chinese Republican Self Help Association 

This party is the main rather bizarre cultic group in this election. They were formed by an association of businessmen in Shenzhen with a rather strange platform promising a full eradication of what they called Over-Employment, the end to the one child policy even in its lesser enforced form and other  policies which were never released which they fit into a framework they called “Theocology” which is as an unknown founder described it “Theocology is the manner of conducting civics closest to the ideal of a god without causing significant social discourse”. The party was later tied to a shadowy religious fraternity apparently named the “National Organization of a True Destiny” which blended Buddhism with Manchu royalty worship and freemasonry. The organization was later found to have a Rolodex of bizarre rituals many of which involved child torture.