Well Anarcho-Monarchism is a thing, which is basically the result of the worst possible compromise for the Spanish Civil War.
Desire the Right: the world of Patagonia
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I still don't understand how many mental cartwheels people have to go through to support anarcho-monarchism of all things. I'm half-expecting anarcho-Stalinism, or anarcho-Statism any day now.
Yes, I believe I will make party infoboxes soon. But I will also just say what each of the parties roughly stands for right now
Conservatives: centre-right, liberal conservatism
Progressives: left-wing, left-populism (they're a left-wing splinter from Labour)
Labour: centre-left, social democracy
Patagonia First: far-right, Patagonian nationalism and anti-Argentinianism
Greens: centre-left, green politics with some eco-socialist factions
Democratic: centre-right, liberal conservatism but very Anglophile (they splintered from the Tories in 2007 and never bothered to rejoin)
I wish I was kidding when I said that not only is anarcho-monarchism a thing, it was also fundamentally J.R.R. Tolkien's personal political philosophy (at least per one of his few overtly political writings, a letter to Christopher Tolkien). Still not quite sure how he squared it away, but the fact it even exists is amazing. IIRC, he liked anarchy but if he couldn't have that he wanted, basically, an "unconstitutional" monarch. Of course, then you can throw in that he was also a Tory who...hated Tories, Toryism, and Churchill personally, so who knows.
Now anarcho-statism? I'd pay good money to see someone do the mental gymnastics on that one.
Yep! In fact, Buenos Aires province's southern border ITTL is not with another province, but rather with Patagonia
Looks like in Argentina that Patagonia has OTL TdF, Santa Cruz, Chubut, Rio Negro, and Neuquen and in OTL Chile Lagos Province and south...
On another note, do either Argentina or Chile claim any of Antarctica?
Almost 100% accurate, the only thing you got wrong is that TTL's Patagonia only has around half of the OTL Lagos region of Chile. Chile still has the Chiloe archipelago and everything north of the Reloncaví Estuary. Also, TTL's Patagonia has the Falklands, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands, although South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands aren't permanently inhabited
Likely not, but Patagonia likely does
And looking at the OTL population numbers, Patagonia has a smaller population than any of the Spanish/Portuguese speaking countries in South America (at 4.5 Million it is larger than only Uruguay which apparently doesn't exist iTTL.)
The Falklands is a territory, much like Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut are to Canada. So it's de facto equal to a province in every way except Senate apportionment, but it's de jure not a province. It also, unlike US territories, has parliamentary representation, although it only has a single seat in the Commons
Hell yeah!
2.5 million actually according to the NASA population estimate tool, and closer to 2.4 million ITTL. Argentina tried to take advantage of this in the 80s by attacking and causing what became known as the Colorado War (named after the River Colorado that forms most of the Argentine-Patagonian border), although the Argentines lost this one due to the UK honoring a defensive alliance they had with Patagonia (which the Argentine President thought the UK wouldn't honor), and the borders between the two countries were kept exactly the same. This may or may not be a parallel
Edit: also Patagonia ended up joining a NATO-equivalent alliance after this so they wouldn't be invaded again
Initially, this was due to the fact that Hugo Bourbon-Parma was a student, and the fact that many young Carlists became interested in Titoism. A friend of mine from the Russian-speaking community of alternative history created an earlier left-wing Carlism, though this was preceded by the rule of King Carlos and his sons, as well as the Republican revolution. In general, this is the world of Napoleon's Victory (the best in my opinion).
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Marc Lapierre, 23rd Prime Minister of Patagonia
Marc Arthur Lapierre, born Joseph Clément Marc Arthur Lapierre, is a Canadian-born Patagonian politician who has served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Patagonia since 2019 and has been leader of the Conservative Party since 2016. Lapierre is the first openly gay Patagonian prime minister; he is also the first to be born in neither Patagonia nor the British Isles.
Lapierre was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. His father, Antonio, was a Quebec provincial politician of French-Canadian descent who briefly served as Premier of Quebec from 1996 to 1997. His mother, Madeleine, a granddaughter of former Canadian prime minister Sir Chester A. Arthur, is of French-Canadian, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, English, and Welsh descent. Lapierre attended McGill University in Montreal from 1985 to 1989, and then moved to Patagonia to attend Joseph Chamberlain University in Victoria from 1990 to 1994. During his time at Chamberlain, he made the decision to permanently move to Patagonia. He became a lawyer, and was officially naturalized as a Patagonian citizen in 1997. He was elected to the Patagonian Parliament in 2002 as a Conservative to the riding of New Aberystwyth, replacing the retiring incumbent Bill Howells. After 12 years as a backbencher, he was appointed Shadow Minister of Justice in 2014 by Conservative leader Gavin Short. Short resigned as Conservative leader a little over a year later, and Lapierre won the leadership election to replace him. In the 2019 federal election, Lapierre was elected as prime minister, defeating incumbent Theresa Boshnyak of the Labour Party in a landslide.
Lapierre was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. His father, Antonio, was a Quebec provincial politician of French-Canadian descent who briefly served as Premier of Quebec from 1996 to 1997. His mother, Madeleine, a granddaughter of former Canadian prime minister Sir Chester A. Arthur, is of French-Canadian, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, English, and Welsh descent. Lapierre attended McGill University in Montreal from 1985 to 1989, and then moved to Patagonia to attend Joseph Chamberlain University in Victoria from 1990 to 1994. During his time at Chamberlain, he made the decision to permanently move to Patagonia. He became a lawyer, and was officially naturalized as a Patagonian citizen in 1997. He was elected to the Patagonian Parliament in 2002 as a Conservative to the riding of New Aberystwyth, replacing the retiring incumbent Bill Howells. After 12 years as a backbencher, he was appointed Shadow Minister of Justice in 2014 by Conservative leader Gavin Short. Short resigned as Conservative leader a little over a year later, and Lapierre won the leadership election to replace him. In the 2019 federal election, Lapierre was elected as prime minister, defeating incumbent Theresa Boshnyak of the Labour Party in a landslide.
George Bergoglio
Sir George Meredith Bergoglio is a Patagonian musician who is the lead singer and guitarist of the metal band Papafrancesco (styled PAPAFRANCƎSCO). Born in Victoria to an Argentine mother of Italian descent and an Italian father who emigrated to Patagonia via Argentina, Bergoglio originally intended to become a priest but later shifted his interest to music
I never knew I needed metal singer Pope Francis in my life, but I'm definitely glad it's now a part of it.
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