Populares convention: FINAL VOTE ON MERGERS

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

1. Which of the following options is most preferable to you?  (rank options using Instant-Runoff Voting)

[1] Ask to merge with another party
[3] Disband
[ ] Change name
[2] Status quo

2. If we do merge with another party, who would you prefer to merge with? (Rank with IRV)

[3] Liberal Party
[4] Communitarian/Whig Party
[ ] Social Democratic Union
[1] Individual Freedom Party
[ ] United Imperial Front
[2] Other: Moderates (?)

Here are the options for how we could merge with another party:

Simple merger:  One party totally dissolves and all its members become members of another party.

Simple merger with name change:  Both parties dissolve and all their members become members of a new, renamed party.

Become a caucus:  One party converts to being a caucus in the other party.

Electoral pact:  The least radical option; neither party dissolves but they agree that a candidate from either party can use both parties' names on the ballot.

3.  If we do ask to merge with another party, which way should we do it?  (Rank with IRV)

[3] Simply merge with them.
[ ] Ask them to simply merge with us.
[2] Simple merger with name change.
[1] Populares become their caucus.
[] Ask them to become our caucus.
[4] Form an electoral pact

I think the party trying to subsume another party isn't going to get us much of anywhere. But
it seems to me that in any of these merger options, we can form a caucus within it if we choose.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

1. Aye
2. abstain