Homonationalist Party of Easway

The Homonationalist Party of Easway (HPE) was a political party in the Realm of Easway on Bear Island & the Pomor's Strait that was led by Hellmut. At it's height, the HPE was the largest party in Easway, a title it held for most of its existence.

Ideology
The Homofascist Party of Easway describes itself as socially queer, economically corporatist, setting out to enact big changes in the government with its "one mind, one party" policies.

It required strict adherence to party lines, with members required to "raise the flag", which appeared as a rainbow, symbolising LGBT.

History
The HPE finds its roots in the now constitutionally forbidden Homofascist Party of Easway, which was also lead by Hellmut. The HFPE was created at the end of March 2021. It was originally created as a satirical party but quickly adopted a more serious platform as it gained favour with larger sections of the population.

Because of vacant positions within the Directorate, & no-one contesting the seat, Hellmut was assigned as Director for Public Works for the Pomor's Strait, beginning the party's government career.

The Council submitted an amendment to the constitution at the beginning of 2021 to remove the words "communist" and "fascist" from the extremism section, which allowed such a named party to run. This amendment was retracted in a September 2021 bill which banned fascism and communism, therefore the party was forced to disband.

The HFPE was the first in Easway since the Mutualist Ouroboros Easway Party headed by the then Grand Marshal Emiliaazei Easway Party to recruit not just new party members but also new Directors.

Hellmut advertised himself through the directorial platform as not just a simple politician, but a "Minister of Propaganda", a position of course not existing within Easway. This seemed successful bringing in on the 5th of April through the opportunity of there being vacant seats, three new directors for the Pomor's Strait:


 * Director for Housing, Teireet
 * Director for Healthcare & Education, Husky
 * Director for Agriculture & Enviroment, Brennos

Through this the Homofascist Party became the biggest party in Easway, although still a minority in the Long Palace Legislator, with on April 5th 2021 there being (excluding the Emperor who only votes on ties) 10 seats; alongside 4 being of the Homofascist Party, 1 of the Social Democrat Party of Easway, 1 of the National Republican Party of Easway, 4 being Independent (including 3 Marquis).

Former Regent Marquis Csyeigo was elected by party members to the newly created position of Alderman on May 12th, making him the first Party Member to reach the Council.

June 2021 Directorial Elections
Following the constitution, directorial elections for all seats in the National Directorate was held on June 10th, with the following composition changes for the Homofascist Party after the election:


 * Hellmut - Director for Public Works (Pomor's Strait)
 * Husky - Director for Business & Labour (Pomor's Strait)
 * Bort - Director for Housing & Community (Pomor's Strait)
 * Teireet - Director for Agriculture & Environment (Pomor's Strait)
 * La Faguette - Director for Healthcare & Education (Pomor's Strait)

Before being disbanded due to the Bill to ban Fascism & Communism within Easway, Party Chief Baron Hellmut moved two of his party members to the new Prefectural Assembly on the Pomor's Strait, on September 9th 2021, so that he could transfer the Alderman of his party & the Alderman of a rival party, the Easwegian Republican Alliance to the National Directorate. This was the Homofascist party's final patriotic act for the Realm, as the Emperor planned to disband the position of Aldermen.

A brief successor party once the HFPE was forbidden was created on September 11th 2020 by Hellmut with help from Archiennè called the Easwegian Avant-Garde Party, which was disbanded when the current Homonationalist Party was created on October 22nd 2020.

HPE Electoral History
On October 22nd, the Homonationalists came in with all of the previous Avant-garde politicians including:

Director for Public Works on the Pomor's Strait - Hellmut

Director for Business & Labour - Archiennè

Reike Eisoux Prefect - Husky

New Barentsburg Prefect - Bort

The party also gained Marquis of Essrina, Metallityöt, former Party Chief of the Easwegian Republican Alliance, thus securing a position in the Imperial Council, strengthening the party's position from the get-go.

Voting History
Here is a list of legislation of which the Homofascist Party voted for, against or abstained.

April 2021

Marijuana and Psychedelic Mushrooms Bill
On April 3rd 2021, a Bill was introduced to the Long Palace, asking the question of whether cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms should be legalised and produced within the Realm. Only Homofascist Director Hellmut voted "no", in a close result which the Emperor had to break a tie. The result was 4-3 for.

May 2021

Alderman Bill
On May 10th-11th 2021, Hellmut as party whip instructed party members to vote yes to a bill that would allow a new governmental position to the Council, voted in by the biggest winning parties of Bear Island & Hopen.

Mandatory Military Bill
The majority of the party, including Party Chief Hellmut voted yes to this bill, with Alderman Csyeigo being the outlier, who voted no. The Homofascist's greatly helped this bill, being the major reason it passed.

June 2021

Reduction of Directors Referendum Act
On June 1st, in response to reduced capacity for a larger government, a bill was proposed to merge the Director for Business & the Director for Labour on both Island Directorates into the Director for Business & Labour in order to reduce the National Directorate from 10 to 12.

The results was a landslide with 8 yes votes and 1 abstention. All Homofascist representatives voted yes.

July 2021

On July 26th the General Secretary of the party, Hellmut, initiated an impeachment of the then leader of the Mutualist Ouroboros Party and Director of Business & Labour on Bear Island and former President of Easway, Aleksou Maximus Desourrë, who was charged with inactivity in office. The Emperor granted the vote to be held with secrecy, therefore no one knew who voted what, but it is suspected the party voted to impeach Maximus with 6 votes, 1 against, and 1 abstention.

This was a controversial event. Maximus was enraged and refused to take part in the process. The public saw it as a use of the HFPE's majority to purposefully take down an opposition party, in league with the National Republican Party of Easway who on July 23rd made a backdoor deal to end the NRPE-MOP Alliance to create the Homonational Axis.

Maximus blamed Etchasketch who he accused of being a clever opportunist who manipulated the entire affair to take Maximus' seat and become the Party Chief of the MOP.

The party voted against the Government - Armed Forces Constitutional Change act, which proposed barring the Grand Marshal from simultaneously holding any political office. It should be known that the Incumbent Grand Marshal at the time was Hellmut, the General Secretary of the party.

August 2021

Archiennè representing the party voted for the Seven Masts Referendum act.

September 2021

The party voted for the Eschgau Emando Constitutional Boundaries Referendum act which proposed bring forward guidelines for Easway's secret service.

Impact
The impact of the Homonationalists is greatly remembered from how it was seen during the first HFPE days.

In order to properly realise the impact the party has had on Easwegian politics, it is best to look at the founder, Hellmut.

Hellmut is a charismatic and effective leader, whose sway on the Emperor by once being in the Eschgau Emando, a noble bodyguard organisation who protects the Council, allowed him to have such a ready platform to promote his newfound party. His initiative of recruitment is what gave the political system of Easway a fresh burst of new life.

The rise of the Homofascist Party had led other Easwegians to see it as an opposition, which has led every other party to see new party members gained.

On April 6th, the State Media Eix - Easway made the projection that if Council elections were to take place at that time, the Homofascist Party would win a Marquis position.

On May 12th, the Party was able to appoint the first Aldermen of Hopen, Sir Csyeigo from the party.

Further efforts from Hellmut allowed the party to become normalised and spoken about during the Realm, and because of its success, many oppositions and alliances were made to oppose it, which further allowed Easway's political scene to come allies. The party has many people at its side for its friendliness, activity and devotion to the nation, but also many fierce critics for its authoritarian past and loud leadership.