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[GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Alduria - 05-10-2019 All campaign actions/activity of the 1672 parliamentary elections, including speeches, press releases, tweets, press conferences, ads, billboards, go on this thread. I will be continually giving polling updates and feedback. I will also throw wrenches and events to react to in the press and in this thread. Nothing will be damaging to anyone - unless their reaction to the event (or lack thereof) damages them. Refer to the election calendar and announcements here. RE: [GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Alfonso Velez - 05-11-2019 LIBERTY & DEMOCRACY PARTY PLATFORM:
Campaign Platform:
During this campaign, the Liberty and Democracy Party have released a manifesto taking these policy positions: -Commitment to expanding free trade with other nations -Promote deregulation of businesses to allow Alduria's economy to thrive -Privatize most remaining state owned enterprises, especially Alduria's oil companies. Use revenue from selling these companies to stabilize the economy and build a strong navy. Give preference to selling Alduria's oil companies to Aldurian based companies. -Prioritizing Defense spending, particularly naval spending with an emphasis on escort ships for trade routes. -Avoid unnecessary foreign entanglements that could result in conflicts with other nations. Avoid armed conflicts unless they are directly related to Alduria's security or overriding trade interests (ie, responding to attacks on shipping) -Lower taxes for citizens and small businesses -Help small business owners by offering legislation to ease regulatory burdens and provide exceptional tax relief during a business' first years -Move more power away from the National Government to provincial and local Governments, particularly when it comes to welfare programs. The National Government would provide funding for local/provincial directed welfare programs that meet the specific needs of that locality/province rather than a "one sized fits all" policy. -Place an emphasis on "Alduria First" when it comes to our foreign relations. We won't close ourselves off from other nations--but we will always make sure that our interests are first in mind. This won't stop us from cooperating with other Governments and certainly won't stop us from signing free trade deals--but we have to look out for Aulduria first! -Use money from privatizing industries to build needed infrastructure in areas that aren't strong economically. In economically strong areas, partner with the private sector to pool resources for infrastructure building. This mutually beneficial arrangement will save the taxpayers money and help businesses by providing infrastructure support to areas that can directly help their businesses too. -Respect the total separation of Church and State and push back against any legislation that would seek to legislate morality or infringe on people's religious liberties. -Continue to support the development of Biscarrose and Napoléon by private businesses -Promote, support, and respect the privacy and liberty of all citizens. Oppose all legislation that infringes on these liberties. -Promote an open immigration policy and particularly encourage the immigration of skilled workers. Promote programs that help immigrants integrate into Aldurian society. -Provide tax credits to families so they can grow and prosper without government interference. -Strongly support and expand settling corporations and ease the requirements for creating such a corporation. -Invest in medical advancements and create a business-positive atmosphere to attract medical companies to come to and invest in Alduria to help our healthcare system. -Support a vibrant private insurance industry that is suitably regulated. Ensure greater competition between insurance companies to make costs competitive. Move social safety net programs to provincial levels to better meet the unique needs of their citizens with funding provided by the national government. -Allow provinces greater autonomy, particularly in the areas of taxation, education, and infrastructure. -Support freedoms for all people regardless of sex, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Oppose any laws that infringe on these freedoms. Campaign Efforts & Candidates: The Liberty & Democracy party has relied heavily on both corporate and "small donor" contributions and while the party has not pulled in as much money as the "big parties" of Alduria, its young enthusiastic voter base has provided a lot of grassroots outreach on social media and elsewhere. The L&D party under Velez's tenure has made it a priority to have candidates stand in almost every electoral district in Alduria--even in places where there is little chance of winning. While the party provides candidates in long-shot districts few resources, Velez sees it as important for these candidates to introduce themselves to their communities to help spread knowledge of the party and its ideals. The party has struggled to recruit candidates who avoid going into the fringes. Velez's election marked a turn in the party from a focus on being a fringe Libertarian party to more of a "big tent" Libertarian-minded party. While the majority of the party has been on board with this, a vocal minority faction has not been and has been able to field a small number of candidates whose views are far outside the mainstream. While the party has mostly been able to ensure that these candidates have not ended up in seats where the party has a serious chance of winning that seat, some of the press coverage of these "no hope" fringe candidates may not play well in the media. Fortunately, the party has managed to recruit strong candidates in many seats that are realistically in play. The majority of the party's candidates are successful business people, intelligent young millennials (the party boasts one of the largest slates of LGBTQ+ candidates as well as two transgender candidates), and citizen-activists with a general lack of any "career politicians." The party has invested considerable money and resources into its party re-branding, and hopes that these efforts, along with Velez's personal appearances, will convince voters that the Liberty & Democracy is no longer a fringe party and is a new mainstream party that has just the right amount of maverick energy that Alduria needs to succeed. RE: [GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Yakim Beg - 05-11-2019 Euran Destiny Party Platform The Euran Destiny Party believes in the sublime teachings and wisdom of His Serenity the Agha Beg, Yakim Aarash Parizad Salehrad, He of the Sublime Countenance and the All-Seeing Eye, Preceptor of Holy Wisdom, Venerable and Holy Patriarch of the True Faith, Seeker of Gnosis. It is erroneous to consider His Serenity to be the Leader of the Euran Destiny Party but it is true that the reverence shown by the Party Cadres to his thoughts and his examples in living the Rightly-Guided Life means that his "thought-leadership" serves in the function of coordinating and guiding the spontaneously self-organising adepts in a manner which, to the uninitiated, might be misconstrued as "leadership" in the vulgar and vernacular sense. Long experience has taught Yakim Beg that the surest path to survival on the Euran continent is a veneration for obedience, hierarchy, and family. The Harmonious Society and the Sublime State can only be attained through selfless dedication to this precept. Yakim Beg disdains political labels as tawdry things, unworthy of such who would aspire to serve Zurvan through serving the community. Rather than seek to define himself through the appellations of left or right, which are meaningless in the Euran context, Yakim Beg instead seeks to cultivate righteousness amongst the seekers of knowledge. Ancient and noble Alkhiva is now a home for many races, and while there are some inconsiderate and hotheaded who oppose this as a corruption of essential Euran purity, the wise Yakim Beg rejects this and rather considers the refugees who have cast themselves upon the Euran shore to be a necessary transfusion on blood given to a dying man. Yakim Beg, with humbled reverence for the judgement of the almighty, considers it therefore his duty to teach to these newcomers, if they will accept his learning - imperfect as it is, the ways of this very Eura upon which they now propose to build their destiny. The Euran Destiny Party cherishes the opportunity to create, in this Republic, a Sublime State with a Coordinated Government, leading Rightly-Guided citizens in the establishment of a Harmonious Society that extends the message of Peace, Love, and Protection across the entire Euran continent. But the Party, illuminated by the Transcendent Radiance of the Thought-Leader, understands that this is the work of years, and decades, if not centuries. In the present it is necessary for the Euran Destiny Party to recognise that, in this secular and democratic Republic, the closest thing to a Sublime State has been established for the first time in Eura since the Babkhan Holocaust. For this reason it must be defended and developed irrespective of the cost and to the utmost degree of striving and sacrifice if necessary. The Euran Destiny Party is, for this election, committed to:
There are those to whom the activities of the party cadres, being cellular and secretive, are strongly suggestive of cult-like behaviour. This suspicion - a legacy of when the EDP first began to organise during the years of the Second Euran War when large parts of the country laboured under the lash of Iteran overseers or feared the sirens that heralded another Raspurid air-raid inbound towards the now cratered and abandoned Iteran cities - is not entirely without foundation. The Party eschews flashy advertising campaigns and glitzy media presentations in favour of building networks of influence at the grass-roots; town-by-town, street-by-street, door-by-door, neighbour-by-neighbour, the work of the Party Cadres is akin to that of missionaries for the great religions in as much as they give succour to the vulnerable and marginalised, establishing soup-kitchens, laundries, benevolent societies, and charitable associations for the relief of the poor. In recent months they have also taught self-defence classes for vulnerable settler communities on the frontiers who have found themselves all too vulnerable to the depredations of bandit clans and rogue Cerid troops operating out of the interior.
The Party generally prefers to put forward candidates who have already become known in the community for associating with good works and the poor relief, these tend to be humble and unassuming, in contrast to the oratory and charisma associated with the "thought-leaders" of the Party Cadres who emulate the prolix style of the Agha Beg himself. The Euran Destiny Party has declined to put forward a presidential candidate for this election, judging the time to not yet be fully right. RE: [GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Tzvi Barak - 05-11-2019 New Center Party Platform
The New Center Party aims to make a great Alduria, internally and internationally. To do this, we have made the following agenda for our party:
- Promote domestic businesses - Strive for equality for all, regardless of background, sex, religion, or ethnic background - A defensive ideology for our armed forces - Improve trading relations with our neighbors and allies (Constancia, Krasnocoria, Natopia, etc.) - Help save our rivers and enviornment from pollution - Tighter regulations on maritime pirating within our waters. - Aid the cleanup of radioactive materials in our nation, and use as much of it to our advantage. - Promote the idea of citizen privacy - Open borders for refugees from the Euran Green - Provide affordable education to all - Promote settlement of remote areas such as Biscarrose and Napoléon - The creation of a balanced policy between Provincial Autonomy and Total Provincial Integration - Creation of tax cuts for families with children so they may easily afford goods for their children - Repair damages to infrastructure from the 2nd Euran War and the Babkhan Holocaust Campaign Efforts: We shall run our political campaign on ad campaigns. A large portion of funds collected by NCP will go to this campaign. These ads, while not specifically targeting other parties, will show the public that our promises will be brought to them. Our ads are not only for show, they are our deepest promises. We do not believe in ads to brainwash the public, we believe in ads that are short and simple and to inform the public with straight facts that will impact them. We recruit those who will work hard, not just for us, but for Alduria. Candidates come from all of the nation, from Compostela to Valenciana. We strive to show these candidates that we are not your everyday Center Party. The New Center Party has decided to not push for a presidential candidate this election, as we have observed we are not of size to push for this. RE: [GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Natalia Cotilla - 05-11-2019 NPC submission for the National-Liberal Alliance:
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Quote: RE: [GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Alfonso Velez - 05-12-2019 VELEZ RALLY IN PUNTO SANTIAGO: IT'S TIME TO PROTECT OUR TRADE ROUTES Good Morning Ladies and Gentleman,
It's a pleasure to be here with you all today and it's an honour to stand here with so many of our brave men and women in the armed forces. As our nation continues to grow and develop one thing is clear: we need to invest more money in our military and our navy in particular. Our nation stands for peace. We must never allow ourselves to be drawn into pointless international conflicts and to send our brave men and women into harm's way except to protect Alduria, our trade, and our national interests. The Liberty & Democracy Party stands for this importance balance. While we will make sure that this country never becomes involved in pointless conflicts, we must also be vigilant against threats to our nation whether they be from another nations or non-state actors. Recent revelations about the vulnerability of our trade routes to piracy remind us about the importance of making the building of a strong navy a priority. This party will make the building of new naval vessels a priority and focus on building coastal defense ships, cruisers, frigates, and other fast escort ships which can provide protection to our trade routes and quickly respond to any other incidents as they may occur. A good navy is the key to protecting our nation and our trade routes which are essential for the livelihood of our country, citizens, and businesses. The dithering of the current Government on this issue must end: it's time to act to protect our trade routes! RE: [GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Alduria - 05-12-2019 Latest news to react to: FROM NEWSFLASH: https://www.alduria.cc/showthread.php?tid=29&pid=272#pid272 (05-12-2019, 02:34 PM)Alduria Wrote: RE: [GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Tzvi Barak - 05-12-2019 BARAK PRESS CONFERENCE: WE MUST END POLLUTION IN OUR RIVERS Good day,
I am here to talk to you about the ongoing pollution of our beautiful rivers. Our nation has begun to expand industrially, to which I am proud of. But this has one problem, the pollution of our rivers will, without a doubt, increase. As a developing nation, we simply cannot afford for this to happen! Alas, at this point, simply going around the rivers and picking up trash isn't going to be enough. Myself, and the New Center Party, stand for the restoration of our river's beauty. But simply talking will not do a thing! Immediate action is required to solve this issue. One thing that we must do is to set tougher environmental regulations for businesses, in order to dissuade any further damage. We must also begin to build water treatment plants. This would make it so our water may be purified, and used to our advantage. If we do not fix these issues, our water will be useless! We wish not for a drought or tainted water that our citizens will ingest. Agriculture will be spoiled, and our people will have nothing to eat! It is the people's decision to do their part for Alduria. But the message is clear, we must end pollution in our rivers. RE: [GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread - Alduria - 05-12-2019 Questions from the press - Barak Press Conference Newsflash reporter Marta Lopez: "Deputy Prime Minister, thank you for being with us today. What kind of environmental regulations would the New Center enact? Could you provide some specifics?" NABC reporter Joseph Delors: "Deputy Prime Minister, thank you. The Bassarids have enacted protections for Aldurian ships and commerce. What do you think about that? What will the Aldurian government do? What would you do as Prime Minister?" (OOC: I am happy to throw a question or two at a press conference you guys do - feel free to message me in Discord if you do one and want me to throw a couple questions. One will be a softball or a clarification on your remarks, the other will not be so soft.) |