Mobian Justice Party

The Mobian Justice Party (MJP; Parti de la justice möbienne, PJM; Möbische Justizpartei, MJ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Mobius. It is a major catch-all party of the centre-right in Mobian politics.

Albrecht Junker has been leader of the MJP since May 2017. The MJP is the second largest party in the House of Congress, the Mobian federal legislature, which makes it the official opposition against the leading People's Democratic Party.

Founded in 1976 as a conservative party, the MJP became the first ruling party after that year's election with Rosemary Prower becoming the first Mobian Prime Minister. The party also had politicians from liberal and Christian democratic backgrounds. As such, the party has claimed to represent the interests of not just conservatives, but also the Christians and liberals. The MJP prefers a balanced approach in foreign policy, and seeks relations with France, and Spain as well as Russia, and China. Purple is the party's customary colour with white being the secondary colour.

The MJP has been the official opposition since 2001 after its coalition with the PDP ended. The MJP previously led the government from 1977 to 1985, and 1993 to 1997. The party also leads the governments of four of Mobius' nineteen states.

The MJP is a member of the Centrist Democrat International, the International Democrat Union, and is an associate of the European People's Party.

History
Immediately following the Knothole Accords the three major centre-right parties of the archipelago have held a meeting on merging the three parties into one national centre-right party. The Justice Alliance of Mobius, the Christian Democrats of Alba, and the Conservative Union of Voxia and Valio had a variety of backgrounds which ranged from right-wing national conservatism to moderate Christian democracy, and the meeting's goal was to establish a party that would unite the centre-right. This would culminate in the merging of the three parties to establish the MJP with Rosemary Prower becoming the first leader of the party.

The MJP would immediately get to work to campaign for the 1976 congressional election. Prower was a liberal conservative as well as a charismatic figure, and a staunch anti-communist, attracting votes from all over the nation at the expense of the PDP, which was seen as a tool of a potential socialist revolution at that time even after Georges D'Mont was ousted in favour of the centrist Hank Stephenson. The MJP would win a majority in the House of Congress.

Prower era (1977-1985)
Under its first term, the MJP aimed to have a balanced foreign policy which sought membership in the Non-Aligned Movement as well as building up relations with both the western and eastern blocs as well as having a liberalized economy which allowed the Mobian economy to grow fast. Both economic growth, and diplomatic successes have increased the party's popularity, allowing the MJP to obtain a larger majority in the 1980 election. After that year's election, prime minister Prower announced that she would step down as leader a month before the 1984 election, and retire from politics. At this time, the PDP changed their party leader to James Forsythe, who was finally able to convince people to support the PDP, leading to a fall in popularity for the MJP which lead to the party becoming the official opposition after the 1984 election.

First official opposition (1985-1993)
The first post-Prower leader was Gerhard Papen who became party leader in the previous year. Unlike Prower, Papen was a national conservative who emphasized a hard form of Mobian nationalism, and was an ardent supporter of the quasi-authoritarian regime that Mobius was under. Thanks to the uneasy coalition between the PDP and the MLD, Papen was able to take advantage of it, and was able to recover some lost popularity, though it wasn't enough to become the ruling party. The 1988 election lead to the first and only MLD government which was rife with near-constant deadlock between multiple factions within the ruling party, making Papen's MJP a more viable alternative given its comparatively high unity within the party. The 1992 election lead to the MJP gaining a supermajority in the House of Congress.

Papen era & Lavender Revolution (1993-1997)
Under Papen's brief time as prime minister, laws were passed to strengthen the quasi-authoritarian regime, even extensively curtailing civil liberties in the name of combating a perceived communist threat. These actions were met with serious protest throughout the country, yet it yielded nothing beyond constant cracking down of protests. This would culminate in the Mobian Armed Forces, a left-wing faction of the Royal Mobian Army overthrowing Papen in a bloodless left-wing coup in 1994. The military installed a National Reconstruction Council which was lead by new MJP leader Xavier Hollande, who would transition the MJP towards the left, turning the conservative party into a Christian democrat party. This angered the right-wing faction of the party, many of whom have split to join the United Front. The NRC would continue to run Mobius until 1997. The 1996 election lead to the MJP forming a coalition with the PDP, making it the first and only time the MJP was in a coalition.

Coalition with PDP (1997-2001)
The MJP formed a coalition with the PDP lead by Geoffrey St. John. Unlike the disastrous PDP-MLD coalition of the mid-1980s, this coalition was much more united in passing reforms to institute social welfare as well as reforms to the administrative divisions, and the House of Peers. The coalition would end after the 2000 election which put the MJP back into the official opposition. In retrospect, this brief coalition was seen as the last step towards democratization in Mobius, and many look back at this era as the beginning of democracy in Mobius.

Back in official opposition (2001-present)
After being placed back in the official opposition, the MJP would continue to support some of the PDP's policies, though it still opposed the party's pro-Western foreign policy, with Hollande seeing it as "A betrayal of Mobian values, we're not pawns to neither the Western nor Eastern lapdogs. Mobius has always been keen on maintaining relationships with all countries regardless of their alignment." The next elections would see the MJP lose seats to the growing right-wing United Front, seen as worrisome to many given how recently Mobius has democratized. In 2020, the MJP, the PDP, and the Greens have agreed to form an informal alliance in 2021 that seeks to preserve democracy against the rise of despotism, this group is known as the Alliance of Freedom and Democracy, and the group's primary focus is to campaign in strong United Front seats in hopes of unseating United Front candidates.

Principles and policies
From its beginnings, the MJP has emphasized that it's a people's party that has offered a political home to all Mobians - regardless of religion, region, social class, occupation, gender, or age - who accept its overarching principles. As the archetypal “catchall party” that is pragmatic and office-seeking and that views itself as representing the entire population rather than particular sectional interests, the MJP has been remarkably open to a wide variety of political interests: both big and small businesses, labour and agriculture, and small towns and big cities are all represented within its ranks.

These days, the party has drifted towards liberal conservatism and Christian democracy, a drift that is said to have alienated the more right-wing members and voters who now vote for the United Front.