The Republican Party was one of the main political parties in Oredia prior to unification. It sought primarily to abolish the monarchy, and aim which it had succeeded in doing on several occasions, only for their opponents the Oredian Royalist Party to repeatedly re-establish it. In the years before unification, as the global economy slumped, the party split. A series of inconclusive elections had produced a hung parliament, and many republican backbenchers wanted to form a coalition with the Royalist Party, so that the problems threatening Oredia could be dealt with as effectively as possible. When the leadership refused, the backbenchers rebelled and founded the Oredian Democratic Republican Party, which later dropped its republican ideals and became the Oredian Democrat Party. By the ti