National Reform Party

The National Reform Party, abbreviated as the NRP, is a political party in Divasa and member of the DRG, holding 2 seats in the House of Delegates and 1 seat in the Imperial Council. Its 5 founding members were Wolf_e, Captainographer, Margaret on the Guillotine, Morey A. Marshall, and Anton La Follette, though Margaret on the Guillotine has since left the party and the political scene as a whole. All five founding members and most of the initial membership were defectees from the now-defunct PRF, upset over PRF leader Jeb J. Watson's perceived mishandling of the party and alienation of the SDLP.

Founding
The NRP was founded after general discontent formed amongst the membership of the Progressive Republican Front over the running of the party. This discontent was almost entirely directed at leader Jeb J. Watson. His grip on the party was considered absolute, and so the founding five chose to found a new party to get a fresh start, away from the stigma of the PRF which had come to be viewed by the rest of the political spectrum as very corrupt. Most concern was centered around the so-called "rigging of the docket," in which then-Chancellor Watson moved bills of his party and coalition to the front of the House docket, even if they were submitted later than other bills. As well, many were alienated by his aggressive rhetoric directed at coalition partners SDLP and DA, the SDLP itself leaving the DC over the issue.

The name "National Reform Party" was selected secretly by the founding five. They specifically avoided the words "progressive" and "republican" to distance themselves from the PRF. After creation and stealing most of the PRF's membership, the NRP adopted a platform extremely similar to that of the PRF. The only differences were in that the NRP supported a national healthcare system, which most of the PRF had supported but was vetoed by Watson, and the decision to support democratic elements in foreign countries where the existed instead of outright invasion of the authoritarian factions.