Peace & Prosperity Party

The Peace & Prosperity Party (abbreviation: PPP) is a major political party in Vrachiapolis.

Initially founded as a regional party in 1962, it soon became the largest political party in Vrachiapolis when it achieved self-governance on May 1, 1971. After Vrachiapolis declared independence on August 15, 1974, Fahir Hamzaoglu and Sakis Karahalios began moving the party's ideology towards the centre-left.

The PPP have a dominant position in Vrachiapolian politics, with 80 out of 150 seats in Parliament. They have won parliamentary majorities in every election since 1974, and sizable majorities in all but two elections (2000, 2020).

Positioned on the centre-left of Vrachiapolian politics, the PPP is often regarded as a "big tent" party with several different ideological factions. The PPP's general position favours free-market economics, having turned the Vrachiapolian economy into one of the world's freest and most open, while socially supporting social liberalism, multiculturalism and egalitarianism.

Pre-independence (1962-1974)
On 3 November 1962, the PPP was officially registered as a political party by Fahir Hamzaoglu and Stylianos Katsanevas. Originally, it was a single-issue party, campaigning for Vrachiapolian independence. However, after the that happened in Cyprus in 1963 to 1964, the PPP decided to campaign on equality too. As a result, the PPP attracted a wide variety of groups and people from across the political spectrum, and this has continued to this day.

During the period of Vrachiapolis being a city-state within Cyprus, both right and left-wing extremists in the PPP incited riots and violence in order to force the Cypriot government to give self-governance to Vrachiapolis. Greek and Turkish nationalists in Vrachiapolis were also assassinated by the "communist" faction because they represented "division and hate".

On May 1, 1971, Vrachiapolis achieved self-governance and the first general elections were held in December. The PPP, being the main organization leading the charge for self-governance, won a minority in the Vrachiapolian Legislative Council, with 18 out of 43 seats won. Their main rivals were the Civic Democratic Union and the Labour Party.