Republic Diplomacy Party

"We, the concerned citizens of the Republic, express our worry at how our Senate is dealing with the Separatists. So far, we believe that the Separatists are being denied their natural right to self-determination, and a voice in their own future. We are also troubled by the apparent effect that the warmongering Militarists are having on the Senate, we believe that they plunge us into tragedy! It is only right for the Separatists to build their military forces from the threats the Militarists have given them, we urge you to see reason and ignore the warmongers who will cause a galactic war! Diplomacy is the only way, we are a Republic, and as a Republic we do not have the right to deny any star system the right to control their own destiny, they joined us voluntarily, and it is well within their rights to leave us voluntarily! We plead to you, recognize the Confederacy as a legitimate nation in their own right, free and independent, and accept their right to self-governance! If you would follow this course of action, then the current crisis would end tomorrow!"

- A letter to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from Ben Larmak, expressing Larmak's belief that recognition of the Separatist nation would avert the Separatist Crisis, the letter also expresses Larmak's disdain for the Militarists, who he viewed as warmongers who would cause a galactic war.

The Republic Diplomacy Party was a political party on Coruscant during the Separatist Crisis and Clone Wars, unlike most parties the RDP had no interest in running in elections, it was focused more on lobbying the Republic Senate to continue diplomacy with the Separatists. Overtly pro-Separatist, its main goal was the see the Republic Senate negotiate with the Confederacy of Independent Systems. It also viewed the Republic Senate as corrupt and having forgotten the morals and ideals which the Republic was founded on, the party was also ardently opposed to the "Militarist" faction.

The party was founded by a Coruscanti human male called Ben Larmak in 24 BBY, shortly after the Confederacy was founded, Larmak founded the party because he believed that the Confederacy had the right to exist, if only to exercise the Republic's ideals of freedom of choice and self-governances, and he was appalled at how some senators in his Senate were advocating violent action against the Separatists, which he viewed as illegal and a complete contradiction of the founding ideals of the Republic, as far as he concerned any system which voluntarily entered the Republic had the right to voluntarily leave it.