Lucky Faction

Factio Fortuna
Leader	Octavia Livibia
Slogan	"Individuality of Seluciae"
Founded	December 4246
Headquarters	Constantium, Uleroth
Youth wing	Fortuna Iuvenis
Student wing	Fortuna Posterus
Membership	119,358
Ideology	Classical Liberalism Conservative Liberalism Libertarianism
Political position	Center-right
International affiliation	Forum for Reformist Co-operation
Colour	Light Blue ; Silver
Senatus	185 / 500
Provincae	2 / 5
Cabinet Positions	6 / 13
Website	www.factiofortuna.org.su
[[1]Selucian Politics]; [[2]Political Parties in Selucia]; [[3]Selucian Elections]

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Factio Fortuna, commonly referred to as ad libertatem coetus (The Liberty Group). They were an influential party in Selucian politics and former the second largest party in Selucia.

Factio Fortuna's current ideology was more commonly known as Selucian Liberalism. The Party largely supports free-market capitalism, fiscal responsibility, the rights of the individual, and individual ownership of private property.

The voter base of Factio Fortuna was largely composed of small-business owners and the Liberty Alliance of Sleucia. The base of support comes primarily from Uleroth and West Shadar, where the Party polls especially high compared to it's counterparts.

Arguably, the Party was strongest in 4261 when they controlled the office of Caesar Senatus (Decimus Cornelius Afer), the Senate (301/500 seats), and 4/5 Provincial legislatures.

History[]

Factio Fortuna (Lucky Faction) was founded as a moderate right party in 4246 by Decimus Cornelius Afer, and Augustus Tacticus. The party gained notoriety in 4255 when Decimus Cornelius Afer became Caesar Senatus of Sleucia.

Augustus Tacticus and Decimus Cornelius Afer founded Factio Fortuna because there were very polarizing politics at the time. It was either a far-left or far-right choice with an no party for small government, so the two decided to found a party of their own. Decimus Cornelius Afer, financially backed the foundation of the party. Augustus Tacticus used his skills as a political commentator to finally put their ideas on the Selucian political scene.

Factio Fortuna was founded on Classical Liberal principles, but a more conservative faction led by Decimus Cornelius Afer took hold in 4254. In the mid-4260's a new Libertarian faction popped up inside the party under Lars Ramio, who used to be a Classical Liberal.

There are three factions inside the party; Classical Liberals, Conservative Liberals, and the Libertarians. Currently the Classical Liberals are led by Octavia Livibia, the Conservative Liberals by Valentina Paeta, and the Libertarians by Lars Ramio. The factions only have slight different when it comes to social politics, but agree on economic politics of Factio Fortuna along with the roles of citizen and state.

43rd Century[]

The foundation of Factio Fortuna was shrugged off by many as they thought it was just another joke targeting the Selucian political system as was common on late night shows in the 4240's and early 50's. As the party's first Head Chair, Augustus Tacticus campaigned using his late night show as a platform for Factio Fortuna. In the elections of 4247, they only polled around 30,000 votes and won no seats. Though after more campaigning and crowd funding, Factio Fortuna saw moderate success in the elections of 4251, polling 9,246,575 votes and winning 70 seats.

Augustus Tacticus was reelected Head Chair until the Leadership elections of 4254, when Decimus Cornelius Afer was elected to Head Chair. Under Decimus Cornelius Afer, Factio Fortuna would lose 3 seats, polling 8,073,417 votes, in the election of 4255, but Decimus would go on to become Caesar Senatus, which granted much credibility and influence. This became the Afer Era (4255 - 4266) in Factio Fortuna. Dacimus would go on to hold the office of Caesar Senatus until 4265 when he decided he would retire to pursue more personal time with family while entering a bi-partisan coalition government with In-Maera. In the height of the Afer Era Factio Fortuna held 301 (60.2) seats in the Senate and polled a max of 26,398,404 (60.98) votes.

After the retirement of Decimus Cornelius Afer, Octavia Livibia was voted in as Head Chair in the first run-off leadership election in Factio Fortuna. Octavia Livibia focused on strengthening the ties between Factio Fortuna and In-Marea as per the coalition government. Her time as Party Chair has so far been unimpressive in the Party's voter base for the lack of preventing moderate economic nationalization and her second term as Party Chair has been rumored to been rigged. The Selucian Minister of Justice has been reviewing the case in the weeks following the result.

Results[]

Below are the results of Factio Fortuna in national elections the Party has been in.

Senatoral Elections[]

Year	Number of votes	Total votes	% votes	Seats	+/-	Position	Status
4247	29,751	66,301,092	0.04	0 / 500	New	5th	Opposition
4251	9,246,575	66,013,393	14.01	70 / 500	70	4th	Opposition
4255	8,073,417	59,935,001	13.47	67 / 500	3	4th	Minority Coalition
4257	11,000,388	57,659,471	19.08	98 / 500	31	3rd
4261	9,967,105	57,090,192	17.46	89 / 500	9	4th
4261	26,398,404	43,287,113	60.98	301 / 500	212	1st
4265	14,746,689	46,386,482	31.79	160 / 500	141	2nd	Coalition
4269	17,757,955	48,819,985	36.39	185 / 500	25	2nd	Coalition

Consul Populi Elections[]

Year	Candidate	Total Votes	% Votes	Position	Result
4247	Augustus Tacticus	58,184	0.09	4th	Arria Ivmarus
4251	Augustus Tacticus	9,407,322	14.27	3rd	Tiberius Varro
4255	Decimus Cornelius Afer	10,407,126	17.42	3rd	Lucius Clodian
4257 - present	Rule of Imperator Clodian I

Party Structure and Organization[]

Factio Fortuna has anywhere from 11-16 (depending on Praetors) council members that gather once every three months at party HQ in Constantium. At this conference, the leaders determine the state of the party, party trajectory, and a plan for Factio Fortuna's role in Seluciae. The members are the party leader, Head and Vice Chairs from each Provincae, and the parties Praetors. The Head and Vice Chairs of each provincae are decided by the members who vote on candidates every two years for the positions.

Party Council[]

	Uleroth	Kal Serathi	East Shadar	Korgana	West Shadar
Head Chair	Constantus Tatian	Oppius Carvilius Isatis	Atia Vitula	Servius Vinicius Porcus	Vinicia Nemesiana
Vice Chair	Cordia Luciana	Primus Saenus	Flavius Lartius Ligur	Vesnia Donatiana	Gallus Aruns
Praetor	Julianus Seneca				Livia Dominia

Party Chairs[]

Every two years in January the members of the party vote on who should be the leader of Factio Fortuna. As of May 4258, this has been changed to every four years in the January before the election.

Name	Term	Achievements During Term	End of Term
Augustus Tacticus	4247 - 4254	Establishment of party, Senator, Return of the Imperator	Lost Reelection (4254)
Decimus Cornelius Afer	4254 - 4266	Senator, Caesar Senatus (4254-4265), Return of the Imperator, Closer ties with Cildania, Promotion of Liberty through preservation, bi-partisan coalition government	Peaceful Resignation (4266)
Octavia Livibia	4266 - present	Senator, bi-partisan coalition government	N/A

Party Membership and Party Chair Votes[]

Year	Members	Party Leader	Candidates/Vote Percentage	Runoff Vote
4248	1,987	Augustus Tacticus	Undisputed	N/A
4250	9,781	Augustus Tacticus	Undisputed	N/A
4252	27,934	Augustus Tacticus	Augustus Tacticus - 52% Decimus Cornelius Afer - 45% Lars Ramio - 3%	N/A
4254	32,216	Decimus Cornelius Afer	Decimus Cornelius Afer - 51% Augustus Tacticus - 49%	N/A
4256	45,976	Decimus Cornelius Afer	Decimus Cornelius Afer - 89% Augustus Tacticus - 11%	N/A
4258	50,858	Decimus Cornelius Afer	Decimus Cornelius Afer - 78% Augustus Tacticus - 19% Lars Ramio - 3%	N/A
4262	56,781	Decimus Cornelius Afer	Decimus Cornelius Afer - 93% Augustus Tacticus - 5% Lars Ramio - 2%	N/A
4266	70,488	Octavia Livibia	Lars Ramio - 24% Valentina Paeta - 34% Octavia Livibia - 42%	Valentine Paeta - 46% Octavia Livibia - 54%
4270	119,358	Octavia Livibia	Lars Ramio - 21% Valentina Paeta - 36% Octavia Livibia - 43%	Valentina Paeta - 48% Octavia Livibia - 52%

Factions in Factio Fortuna[]

As mentioned earlier, there are factions in Factio Fortuna. There are the Classical Liberals, Conservative Liberals, and as of recently the Libertarians. Each internal faction has it's own leader. The membership of an internal faction is determined by which internal faction they choose when filling out one's membership applicant card. The internal faction membership is counted at the end of every four years in January when party leader voting takes place.

The Classical Liberals believe that whatever the issue, government is not the answer. They vote to where the government has the least influence possible in a citizen's daily life, or if that isn't an option, they try to give the issue off to the local governments to decide.

The Conservative Liberals differ slightly in that they are slightly more conservative with policy, but still believe the government isn't the answer to a solution. They agree with the Classical Liberals economically but differ slightly socially.

The Libertarians don't believe the government should be involved whatsoever, not even at the local level, on issues. Similar to the Classical Liberals, they agree a citizen ought to do as they please, but should be held accountable to law and their own morals as the other internal factions believe as well.

Faction	Leader	% of Factio Fortuna	Total Members
Classical Liberals	Octavia Livibia	43.1%	51,443
Conservative Liberals	Valentina Paeta	39.4%	47,027
Libertarians	Lars Ramio	17.5%	20,888