What is degree of political pluralism and electoral democracy in the internal politics in PPO?
It is semi-democratic and heavily influenced by Sweden. The Provisional Province has had three "provincial municipal elections" after the War, since the mid-90s. As the Ostrobothnian system is considered quintessentially temporary and largely based on volunteerism, there are municipalities there that did not take part in all (or any) of them. The members of the "Ostrobothnian Council" are directly chosen by the municipal councils, so the "parliament" is only democratic in a second hand fashion. The Council tends to act in a low-key and informal style, as the Ostrobothnians have tried hard to not build any "state" level or "permanent" governmental structures.
The Ostrobothnians really don't see the Provisional Province as a "nation" but only a part of Finland, just one that does not recognize the government in Mikkeli as the legitimate national one. Rather than acting as a successor to the pre-War Republic of Finland, like Mikkeli does, the PPO is ostensibly only trying to build some sub-national order into (what it claims) is a political and military vacuum. This also reflects in the armed forces of the province considered only paramilitary and being called a Protection Corps rather than claiming to be the true Finnish Defence Forces.
There are several parties [the main ones being the Ostrobothnian Centre, the PSDP and the SFP(Ö)] which are successors to the pre-War ones (or offshoots), with somewhat interesting relations to the theoretical mother (or sister) groups in the FNA. The PPO has its own entrenched post-War political-economic (and military) elites, too, but they not so closed as in the FNA.
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