Republican Faction

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The Republican Faction was a political coalition active in the final years of the Galactic Federation.

History

During the final years of the Galactic Federation, Hassan el-Sayyid led the republican faction in opposition to Rudolf von Goldenbaum's increasingly powerful fascist part, the National Reform Alliance. These efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. (Legend of Galactic Heroes Volume 1: Dawn)

Ideology

the Republican Faction would have been a left-leaning party relative to the far-right NRA, and clearly valued the democratic ideals the Federation was founded on.

Legacy

The pro-democracy rhetoric of the Republican Party would eventually serve as the inspiration, and perhaps model, for the Free Planets Alliance. Arguably, the FPA may have seen themselves as the direct inheritors of the Republican Faction, and therefore the only legitimate successors to the Galactic Federation--therefore providing a casus belli for their war against the Galactic Empire.

Records of prominent Republican politican Hassan el-Sayyid would later be used by FPA historians to construct historical models of the Federation's fall the the rise of the Goldenbaum Dynasty.