Factional Battles Must Worry UDRC Ahead Of October 4409 Election
“You are either breaking down your party through a factional battle, or you are campaigning for elections; you cannot do both at the same time.”
The leader of the UDRC, João Batlle, should be very worried. What is happening inside his party is one of the biggest risks that he is faced with. The main reason for this is that it frustrates his attempts to move the UDRC toward a different type of politics, to get the UDRC to transform itself into a modern political party. He wants the UDRC to be a party that is not trapped by conflicting ideologies and is instead able to adapt to what is demanded by the society that it leads. The party is divided between the Aurorian social democratic wing (defenders of the Caillean capitalism values) and the Metzism wing (defenders of a secular extreme left-wing vision of the society).
Those who want to resist the Aurorian social democratic wing are now able to rally together behind Roldão Câmara, Ministry of Science and Technology. On the surface, they are helping him through his defeat on the Metzism wing sponsored Abortion Act and, but in reality, they are just trying to evade their own responsibility for a series of measures and proposals that attack many of the values of the Aurorian social democratic wing. The main risk of the UDRC is an open challenge to the moral position associated with Batlle's leadership.
We have seen that there is a break-away within the governing party, with the most radical members of the Metzism wing moving to the Partido Comunista para el Pueblo, owing to the factionalism which is playing itself out right now. There are people within the UDRC who want to do their own thing for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the reason why we are seeing people stay, and engage in factionalism, is not because people are loyalists committed to the UDRC, but rather because it is still easier to access power through the UDRC than leaving, forming a new political party and staying in the opposition for a long time before being able to access resources again.
The Aurorian social democratic wing, led by the Ministry of Health and Social Services Pròsper Albó, remains the most important bloc of power within the party, and that is why they are going to battle the other power groups to control the party apparatus. They have seen that the political parties who have left the UDRC do not win representation; they remain irrelevant parties that end up self-destructing. Albó has learned from history and instead, will remain patient within the structures waiting to see what the next electoral results say about the Metzism wing policies. Albó says that factional fighting is just a waste of time, people should be stabilizing the party. There is a saying that goes: you can't be at the disco and be at the church at the same time, you are either in church or you are at the disco. So, you are either breaking down your party through a factional battle, or you are campaigning for the next elections, you cannot do both at the same time.