National Progressive Convention 4190 Deputy Chair Marko Skandel addressing the Convention.The NPC was held Union Hill, Illiathar during February 2nd to the 5th. The Nomination was more contested than the previous 4 Elections (Where the NPP endorsed the BRRP), and the Voting went to a Second round.
Round 1: BRRP: 44.3% Marko Skandel: 38.2% Lexi Cunningham: 9.4% James von Bondeu: 8.1%
Round 2: BRRP: 51.3% Marko Skandel: 39.6% Lexi Cunningham: 9.1%
The rise of support of Marko Skandel against the BRRP, according to Leader of the Radical Wing, MP Hiram Webster,
The BRRP's inability to win consecutively and the rise in support of Right-wing Parties against the left, has led me and many other Progressives to seek our own candidate to fight the Corporatists and the rise in Radical Support by the Party Base. We are currently tied as the smallest party in the Congress, the BRRP suffered a devastating defeat in the Presidential race. There is no more time for Compromise in this age, Compromise got use here, and it weaken us, its either the Left or nothing.
The Radical's rising support rose after the 4180 and 82 elections where the NPP lose 55 and 36 seats respectively. When asked about the Radicals, Party Chair Garrett von Bondeu said,
We need to focus on getting a left winger into the Presidency, and taking back the Congress to instate many Progressive and Leftist laws and provisions. While I am mildly concerned for the Radical's growing support, we are all Progressives in this party, and we need to be united to fight the Corporatists.
In the end the NPP decided its candidates for each Seat in Congress, and to Endorse the BRRP, and as the campaign trail heats up, it's down to the voters to decide in June whom wins, and inadvertently who rules the NPP, the Centrists, or the Radicals.