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Skyward Alliance
Daltaghli Geteliç
Abbreviation SA
Spokesperson Arabad tural Çukeshim
Convenor Enakhti par Tunirim
Administrator Ghorli par Sanarim
Founded 1706 AN
Headquarters Aladurkidal, Çerid Autonomous State
Ideology
Political position Center
Official colours      Bright red
     Pale yellow
     White
Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie
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Parliament of Alduria
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The Skyward Alliance (SA; Çervelik: Daltaghli Geteliç) is a minor political party founded in 1706 AN to represent the interests of the Çerid in general, and the Çerid Autonomous State in particular, within Nouvelle Alexandrie. While state-level elections within the CAS are contested by a variety of political alliances based around local issues - some homegrown, others local branches of parties of human origin - the SA is currently the only purely local party with the intention of contesting the State's seat in the Parliament of Alduria and the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie.

History

Although the process of setting up the Çerid Autonomous State would not be completed until the following year, it was assigned a seat in the Federal Assembly in time for participation in the 1703 general elections.

Amongst the inhabitants, still in the process of adjusting to their new home and to whom the concepts of parties and elections - at least as humans knew them - were relatively new, turnout was low and very few Çerid had the time, resources or understanding to mount a successful campaign against the major human parties. In the end, the seat was won - in a rare bright spot for the party in that election - by FHP human candidate Efthimios Dreux, largely on the strength of the FHP government's role in creating the CAS and of Dreux's business activities in the area, which he referred to as "investments" and "donations" but which some human observers preferred to call vote buying.

In the aftermath of the election, the inhabitants of the CAS began to have regrets about their choice. Aside from the fact that Dreux had unwisely neglected to "invest" in some groups that were slowly becoming more important in the new state's economy and government, many Çerid who were now paying more attention to how government worked were discontented with the idea that the person representing them was not a Çer. Moreover, an increasingly jaundiced eye was cast upon the ideology of the FHP as a whole, as the origin of the "Humanist" in the party's name became more understood; the suspicion grew that the primary motivation for the FHP's support for their state's existence was born less out of any sense of justice or kindness than a desire to keep Çerid substantially away from humans.

A coalition of influential, or at least loudly-spoken, Çerid therefore formed with the notion that the CAS needed to be represented in higher government by a Çer and unambiguously in defense of Çer interests, and that, to increase the chances of this happening successfully in a human-dominated government, this should be done in the form of a human-style political party. The coalition officially registered as the Skyward Alliance in 1706 AN, with the intention that, unlike the previous elections, there would be time to organize and recruit in preparation for the elections due in 1709 AN.

Domestic positions

In an unusual moment of collective wisdom, the nascent Alliance realized that attempting to binding itself too closely to one of the many and shifting factions dominating local politics in the CAS - and, indeed, represented in its own power structure - would defeat the party before it could even get off the ground. To best achieve the goal of representing the Çerid, its platform was to be restricted to various positions that held wide or universal support among the population of the CAS. This proved to be a fairly short list.

The SA's first and highest priority, its raison d'être, is the representation of Çer interests within the regional and federal levels of government. This translates particularly to the directing of funds to the development of the CAS and to projects advantageous to the Çerid, and to creating and maintaining laws and policies friendly to Çer immigration into Nouvelle Alexandrie in general and the CAS in particular.

This said, they are also friendly to the general idea of what what humans would call green politics, though they do not use that term themselves (having lived in arid and semi-arid regions for most of their history, Çerid associate land and its protection with earth tones). This support stems from a collection of cultural and religious factors among the Çerid that emphasize localized authority and a strong connection to the landscape and its local spirits. Although the Çerid are not averse to the idea of making artificial improvements to the land for the use of intelligent beings, it remains important to them that the land be kept clean and beautiful, and initiatives in service of this end are likely to receive a sympathetic hearing from the SA.

Foreign policy positions

The Skyward Alliance places relatively little emphasis on foreign policy matters and has few concrete positions relating to it. Though it is broadly speaking in favor of the Raspur Pact, this has less to do with the merits of the Pact itself than its implications for the wider Çer population scattered throughout the northern Euran interior. Since fellow Pact member Constancia has bands of Çerid living in its territory - generally extremely marginal areas of desert, given the local view of them as annoying yet bright and occasionally useful animals - it is considered desirable that cordial relations between Nouvelle Alexandrie and its Euran neighbor continue, so that any migration of Çerid toward the CAS might be made easier. The fact that the CAS abuts Constancian territory and greatly benefits from cross-border commerce might also be considered relevant.

In broad alignment with Nouvelle Alexandrie's recent diplomatic history with the Thraci Confederation, the party has a relatively hostile attitude toward the latter, since it was during the expansion of the Thraci constituent republic of Antakia that most New Alexandrian Çerid arrived as refugees from the occupied area and it is within Thraci territory that a large proportion of the total Çer population of Eura still remains. Though most party members understand that open conflict with Thracistan would likely, given the nations' respective alliances, bring about huge and undesirable effects and that there is little appetite for war in the wider New ALexandrian population, there remains a small and vocal faction of the Alliance advocating for Nouvelle Alexandrie to "liberate" Çeridgul, or even - among some extremists - to carve up Thracistan's Euran territories between itself and Constancia and add its discontinuous Çer-inhabited territories to the CAS.