NationStates Jolt Archive

Confederal Action Party

Minimum wage: Support a reasonable minimum wage
Renewable energy and oil: Explore new energy resources while continuing to develop traditional energy resources
Fiscal responsibility: Support annually balanced budget
Health care and insurance coverage: Support Member, private and faith-based health services
Environment: Support conservation of certain wilderness areas
Tertiary education: Support Confederal funding to religious and secular institutions on an equal basis
Trade agreements: Protectionism
Discrimination: Oppose affirmative action
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Oppose same-sex marriage or special protections for LGBT individuals and couples
Reproductive rights: Support an abortion ban except in cases of rape or to save the life of the mother
Stem cell research: Support market-based funding
Foreign policy: Realism, sphere of influence diplomacy
Right to privacy: Support the right of law enforcement to aggressively pursue potential security threats even when it endangers the privacy of some citizens
Crime: Support aggressive enforcement and stronger sentences

Conservative Democratic Party

Minimum wage: Support only a minimal Confederal minimum wage
Renewable energy and oil: Support developing both traditional and non-traditional energy resources
Fiscal responsibility: Support an annual balanced budget
Health care and insurance coverage: Support private and Member health care
Environment: Support only environmental regulation sufficient to prevent immediate health concerns
Tertiary education: Support Member and private institutions
Trade agreements: Support regulated trade
Discrimination: Support valuing freedom of association above diversity promotion
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Support defining marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman
Reproductive rights: Support ban on all abortions except to save the mother’s life
Stem cell research: Oppose Confederal funding
Foreign policy: Non-interventionist
Right to privacy: Support placing security concerns above individual privacy
Crime: Support tougher sentencing and more police

Democratic Concordance

Minimum wage: Support reasonable minimum wage
Renewable energy and oil: Favor exploring new energy sources while continuing to support the development of traditional energy sources
Fiscal responsibility: Support a balanced budget over the business cycle
Health care and insurance coverage: Support subsidizing Member health care
Environment: Support moderate regulation
Tertiary education: Support full funding for the University of the Confederation but no other Confederal funding for tertiary education
Trade agreements: Support free trade based on national treatment
Discrimination: Support for equal access
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Support Member control of marriage and family law and full civil rights for all citizens
Reproductive rights: Supports reproductive rights
Stem cell research: Support Confederal funding
Foreign policy: Support multilateralism
Right to privacy: Support privacy rights
Crime: Support vigorous law enforcement, programs to enhance police-community relations and addressing the causes of crime
Gun control: Support limited gun control while maintaining the principles of armed democracy

Democratic Party

Minimum wage: Support for a substantive Confederal minimum wage with regular increases to keep up with inflation
Renewable energy and oil: Support for renewable energy sources
Fiscal responsibility: Support for a pay-as-you-go budget rule to insure fiscal responsibility
Health care and insurance coverage: Support measures to guarantee universal health insurance. Oppose direct Confederal control of the healthcare system
Environment: Support reasonable environmental regulations
Tertiary education: Support increased public funding for tertiary education at all levels of governance
Trade agreements: Freedom of conscience within the party
Discrimination: Support for strong anti-discrimination measures including affirmative action but not quotas
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Strongly support the right of the Members to define marriage. Support including sexual orientation as a protected class in anti-discrimination legislation.
Reproductive rights: Support open access to contraception. Support sex education programs in schools. Support keeping abortion safe, legal and rare.
Stem cell research: Strongly support public funding for stem cell research
Foreign policy: Support multilateralism and international law
Right to privacy: Oppose invasions of privacy without a warrant obtained through the due process of law. Support limitations on law enforcement designed to protect the privacy of citizens.
Crime: Support community policing. Support addressing the social causes of crime and providing social services to inmates to allow them to better reintegrate into society while still holding criminals accountable. Support gun control.

Labour Party

Minimum wage: Support for a minimum wage capable of supporting a family at a comfortable standard of living
Renewable energy and oil: Support exploring alternative energy sources while continuing to develop traditional ones
Fiscal responsibility: Support a balanced budget over the course of an economic cycle
Health care and insurance coverage: Support Confederal equity funding to allow Members to establish decent public health services
Environment: Support sustainable development programs
Tertiary education: Support Confederal equity funding to allow Members to establish free tertiary education. Support expanding access to the University of the Confederation and creating campuses outside New Amsterdam
Trade agreements: Support free trade with nations comparable in social policy and protections and putting fair trade restrictions on trade with other nations
Discrimination: Support strong anti-discrimination and anti-hate legislation
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Support equal rights for LGBT people. Marriage is a freedom of conscience issue within the party
Reproductive rights: Support sex education and the right to use contraceptive devices. Right to an abortion is a freedom of conscience issue within the party
Stem cell research: Support Confederal funding
Foreign policy: Constructive but critical engagement
Right to privacy: Support protecting privacy
Crime: Support vigorous law enforcement, effective rehabilitation and reentry programs and addressing the social causes of crimes

Liberal Party

Minimum wage: Support for a reasonable minimum wage, neither too low nor too high
Renewable energy and oil: Support a market-based approach to energy
Fiscal responsibility: Support a balanced budget over each economic cycle
Health care and insurance coverage: Support some coverage being included in a basic social safety net subject to a means test
Environment: Support conservation measures on public lands and moderate environmental regulations
Tertiary education: Support Confederal and Member support for tertiary education
Trade agreements: Support free trade
Discrimination: Support affirmative access to make sure that everyone has a chance to be considered on equal terms
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Support equal rights for same-sex couples, including marriage
Reproductive rights: Support sex education and reproductive freedoms, including the right to an abortion
Stem cell research: Support a market-based approach to research
Foreign policy: Free trade, multilateralism, international law
Right to privacy: Support strict protections of privacy
Crime: Support law enforcement in accordance with the due process of law and with respect for the rights of the accused and the victim

Progressive Democratic Party

Minimum wage: Support a strong Confederal minimum waged increased regularly
Renewable energy and oil: Support development of renewal energy resources
Fiscal responsibility: Support for a balanced budget over the span of full economic cycles
Health care and insurance coverage: Supports Confederal equity funding to insure the Member health services
Environment: Support environmental regulation
Tertiary education: Support free, guaranteed tertiary education
Trade agreements: Support free trade
Discrimination: Support moderate anti-discrimination legislation
Same-sex marriage and LBGT rights: Support equal rights for LGBT people, including the right to marry
Reproductive rights: Support protections for reproductive rights, sex education and family planning
Stem cell research: Support Confederal funding
Foreign policy: Liberal multilateralism
Right to privacy: Support protections for individual privacy
Crime: Support addressing the causes of crime

Republican Party

Minimum wage: Willing to support what they consider a reasonable Confederal minimum wage but unwilling to agree to a minimum wage significantly higher than any Member minimum wage or one which they consider too high.
Renewable energy and oil: Favor exploring new energy sources while continuing to support the development of traditional energy sources
Fiscal responsibility: Support fiscal discipline by limited government expenditures
Health care and insurance coverage: Support private and Member health care
Environment: Support conservation on certain public lands but otherwise do not support Confederal environmental regulations
Tertiary education: Support full funding for the University of the Confederation but no other Confederal funding for tertiary education
Trade agreements: Freedom of conscience issue within the party
Discrimination: Support for equal access but not for special programs to increase minority representation in government or industry
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Support a Confederal law defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman
Reproductive rights: Supports restricting, limiting and even banning of abortion. Does not oppose contraceptives but does not support making them available in schools or educating teens in their use
Stem cell research: Freedom of conscience issue within the party
Foreign policy: Support a move towards greater isolationism. Support eventual withdrawal from KIST, TNA and VERITAS.
Right to privacy: Does not believe an individual’s right to privacy is sufficient to outweigh the right of others to safety from criminal or terrorist harm
Crime: Supports tougher sentencing, tougher enforcement, lower evidentiary standards and greater public support for police
Gun control: Opposes most forms of gun control

Socialist Party

Minimum wage: Support a high minimum wage allowed a comfortable lifestyle with a 30 hour work week and a month’s paid vacation annually
Renewable energy and oil: Support nationalization of some vital energy sectors to rationalize policy
Fiscal responsibility: Oppose over-emphasizing balanced budgets
Health care and insurance coverage: Support publicly controlled health care at a Confederal level
Environment: Support sustainable development
Tertiary education: Support free public tertiary education
Trade agreements: Support fair trade
Discrimination: Support strong affirmative action programs
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Freedom of conscience issue within the party
Stem cell research: Support extensive Confederal funding and direction
Foreign policy: Constructive engagement, pacifism
Right to privacy: Support reliance on due process of law
Crime: Support strong rehabilitation and reentry programs and addressing the social causes of crime. Support community oriented policing, civilian review of police actions and stricter prosecution of excessive force violations

Communist Party


Minimum wage: Support a high minimum wage allowed a comfortable lifestyle with a 30 hour work week and a month’s paid vacation annually
Renewable energy and oil: Support nationalization of all vital energy sectors to rationalize policy
Fiscal responsibility: Oppose over-emphasizing balanced budgets
Health care and insurance coverage: Support publicly controlled health care at a Confederal level
Environment: Support sustainable development
Tertiary education: Support free public tertiary education
Trade agreements: Support fair trade
Discrimination: Support strong affirmative action programs
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Support defining marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman.
Stem cell research: None
Foreign policy: Constructive engagement, pacifism
Right to privacy: Support reliance on due process of law
Crime: Support strong rehabilitation and reentry programs and addressing the social causes of crime. Support community oriented policing, civilian review of police actions and stricter prosecution of excessive force violations

Foreign policy: Support a move towards greater isolationism. Support eventual withdrawal from KIST, NDA and VERITAS.

OOCness: How're you even in the NDA anyway (and for that matter, since when?)? I know they play rather fast and loose with 'democratic' but... that's just mindboggling. The very existance of this thread ought to constitute such a withdrawl. Edit: On review, y'aint on the list. Should that say something else?

Couldn't find any that really fits my Libertarian views, so I went with the Confederal Action Party.

((OOC: That was a typo, C'tan. It should have been TNA. Also, Calaveras, just because you vote Other doesn't mean you get to design a party and say it's in my country. That's godmodding.))

(OOC: Are you saying that the USA routinely godmods in south America and that the USSR tried to godmod in the US?:p You can always out the CP as an extension of North Calaveran foreign policy. Wouldn't that be more fun? You can RP their support as being so minimal that they did not win a single seat. As I see it you can RP "other" any way you want;) )

((OOC: 1. No. Godmodding is an OOC, not an IC, event. So, no, the player of the United States did not simply decide that there were parties he or she designed in Central America without RPing putting them there. Duh. 2. Other is going to be processed in the same way in the election calculator regardless of what anyone posts about why they voted other or who they wanted the vote to be for. The forum poll is an OOC poll, not the election itself. The numbers have an impact on the election but they are not the election and even I could not predict the final results by looking at the poll without actually running it through the system as well. 3. I already HAVE a Communist Party under Other and they already have a different program than this. 4. The Communist Party in the United States, while it choose to subject itself to the discipline of an international movement dominated by the Soviet Union, actually was formed by a small group of American radicals. Same for all those pro-American Central American parties. 5. Any attempt to influence me has to begin with your nationals actually doing something IC to try and do it. It doesn't happen by an act of will. 6. Why does this crap always come up in my election threads? Just RP YOUR OWN people if they decide to comment, observe, ask a question, etc. if you are going to post IC. This is a pretty set and established format on NS. Really.))

Conservative all the way, nationalistic but moderate

From FOEnet's popular "A Day at the Electoral Circus" program:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/prophet4profit/slappy.jpg
...absurd delusions. Anyone who thinks that they can make a dent in the capitalist system by voting is the REAL clown.

For A Day at the Electoral Circus, this is Slappy the Clown signing off. *honk honk*

((OOC: Yeah, I've seen "Reds" too :p
Sorry for butting in there, but I've sometimes found it amusing 'play along' with people who make presumptions about my political system rather then chew them out OOC. There is something just irresistibly funny about a small and ineffective foreign-intelligence sponsored political party. I didn't mean to tell you how to RP your nation. I was just making a friendly comment. *runs away*))

OOC: Just out of curiosity, what are some of the "Other" parties?

Darn I should've voted "Other" ah well

ok im sorry for "godmodding" but can you please introduce a communist party if not i will go socialst.

List of Minor, Regional and Fringe Parties

Front for Hope
Rally of Progressive National Democrats
Social Democratic Party
Fanmi Lavalas
Struggling People's Organization
Christian Democratic Party
Democratic Alliance Party
Independent Movement for National Reconciliation
Bridge
New Komeito Party
Communist Party
People's New Party
New Party
National Democratic Party
New Wafd Party
Progressive National Unionist Party
Tomorrow Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Respect Party
Health Concern Party
National Alliance
United Movement
Strategic Alliance
People's Movement
People's Movement for Change
New Democracy
Coalition of the Radical Left
People's United Party
People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
Carasian Nationality Democratic Organization
National Party
People's Labour Movement
Christian Democratic Appeal
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Party for Freedom
GreenLeft
ChristianUnion
Party for the Animals
Political Reformed Party
Federal Party
National Liberation Party
Citizens' Action Party
Libertarian Movement Party
Social Christian Unity Party
Union for Change Party
National Union Party
Homeland First Party
National Liberation Front
Forward
Inuit Community
Feeling of Community
Democratic Labour Party
Bloc Riviera
Party Workers' Liberation Front 30th of May
National People's Party
Forsa Kòrsou
Island People's Movement
Union for a Popular Movement
Union for Confederal Democracy
Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Green Party
Solidarity
Senior Citizens Unity Party
Christian Democratic Party
Innovation and Unity Party-Social Democracy
Patriotic Party
Law and Justice
Civic Platform
United Islamic Alliance
Christian Social Union
Christian Democratic Union
Free Democratic Party
Redemption Democratic Party
Confederal White Workers' Party
Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Union Party
Daisy-Democracy is Freedom
People's Electoral Movement
People's Action Movement
United Workers Party
Covenant Party
Movement for Change and Prosperity
Free National Movement
People's National Movement
West Bay Alliance

((OOC: What no Communist Revolutionary Action Party (Groucho-Marxist) ?:D))

The following appeared in the New Amsterdam Bugle, widely considered the newspaper of record in the Confederated Peoples.

Confederal Vice-Presidency Subject to Partisan Contest

President Obiangh, James Minter and the other leaders of Democratic Concordance have told the Confederal people time and time again how elections to the Confederal Presidency and Vice-Presidency can and will be conducted in the concordance system which, at least on the Confederal level, the nation seems to have chosen. The longest serving member of the Confederal Council, itself representative of all the major political forces, who has not yet been President will be elected. This will normally be last year's Vice-President. The second longest serving Councillor who has not yet been President will be elected Vice-President. There is no guarantee of this system being put into practice beyond the will of the Confederal Assembly who, obviously, are not bound by the proclamations of a party whose presence in the Confederal Assembly will, according to the latest polls, be must less than was generally assumed. However, the concordance system is the ultimate goal of the recent constitutional amendments which were all passed by large majorities, so it seems unlikely that it will be abandoned.

However, even if the Confederal Assembly chooses to remain loyal to the concordance system, they are still stuck with the selection of the first President and Vice-President. Even though Democratic Concordance is doing poorly in polls asking probable voters who they will likely cast their vote for in the upcoming elections for the Confederal Assembly, a majority of Confederals polled prefer Democratic Concordance's Viscountess Kairis to any other potential President. The Viscountess is supported not only by 91% of probable Democratic Concordance voters but also by 51% of probable Socialist voters and 56% of probable Confederal Action voters. The Vice-Presidency is much more contentious with no potential Vice-Presidential candidate clearly supported by the Confederal people. However, a plurality of 25% of Confederals favors Socialist Flora Haber, known among her supporters as the 'consience of the Cortes' for her work in the old Nabarran Constituent Cortes. However, it is likely that the eventual election of a Vice-President will favor the political center of gravity in the Assembly more than it will a plurality of votes. This could lead to the election of Labour's John Palmer as a compromise candidate. One thing, however, is clear. There is no practical way for the Vice-Presidential elections in the Confederal Assembly to avoid the sort of divisive partisanship that concordance democracies are organized to avoid.

((OOC: 1. No. Godmodding is an OOC, not an IC, event. So, no, the player of the United States did not simply decide that there were parties he or she designed in Central America without RPing putting them there. Duh.))

OOC:
Godmodding is not strictly an OOC event. Godmodding can be OOC AND IC. Just like if all the sudden I say that I hid a nuke in your capital and everyone there died when it went off, that would be godmodding. I'd suggest reading up on what godmodding is because it can be many things, not just an OOC thing.

The New Amsterdam Bugle followed up with another article the next day.

Consensus Emerging Regarding Confederal Council

As the first Confederal election approaches, there is heated partisan debate regarding the Confederal Assembly and the Vice-Presidency. However, perhaps more interesting is the consensus that seems to be emerging regarding the Confederal Council itself. This is especially reflected in the most recent poll conducted by democracyfacts.org. While, according to the poll, only a 51% majority of Confederals want Viscountess Kairis to become Confederal President, 91% favor her to become Councilor for Foreign Affairs. Likewise, while only a plurality of 15.38% is in favor of Socialist Flora Haber as Confederal Vice-President, 82% of those polled favor her as Councilor for Justice.

A similar consensus seems to be emerging around the other positions on the Confederal Council. 52% of those polled favor John Palmer of the Labour Party as Councilor for Industrial Affairs and 56% favor Republican James Thompson as Councilor for Finance, a consensus which would divide the two primary economic departments of the government between the left and the right. Liberal John Hardy, the current Prime Minister of Sahor, is favored by a 51% majority as Councilor for Defense. Progressive Democrat Sarah Sacker, current Prime Minister of the Danaan High Kingdom, is favored to head the Department of Infrastructure. The public is much less decisive regarding the final office of Councilor for the Environment and Natural Resources (which includes the semi-independent Department of Agriculture and Fisheries). 41% favor Conservative Democrat Henri Calvin, current Leader of the Opposition, while another 42% favor Democrat Joseph Billington, current Lanerian President.

The emerging consensus is subject to some criticism on grounds of diversity. Assuming that the eventual Confederal Council reflects the current consensus, then it would contain only one African-Confederal, Sarah Sacker. It would consist mostly of Christians, excepting only Flora Haber, who is Jewish. It would contain no gays or lesbians. It would, however, be more evenly divided along lines of gender, containing four men and three women. It would also be geographically diverse, consisting of two Danaans, two or three Vasconians and two or three Ambarans.

However, the most significant aspect of the composition of the Council is political. The current consensus would give either three or four seats to the left and either two or three seats to the right, with Kairis herself representing the center. The difference between Billington and Calvin then might be the difference between a balanced Council governing from the center and a Council leaning to the left with a left plurality and a left Vice-President. This will almost certainly hinge upon the comparative strengths of the Democratic and Conservative Democratic Parties in the Assembly. However, as recent polls show both looking fairly weak, it could still go either way.

[OOC: Conservative Democrats appeal the most to me, I figure. Could you maybe also add the Muffin Waffle Party to the little formations? -_^ ]

The most extensive poll yet conducted by democracyfacts.org polled a broad cross-section of Confederals in each individual Member. Based on this, democracyfacts.org then calculated the composition of the Confederal Assembly if the elections were held today. The first number represents seats in the Chamber of Deputies, the second in the Senate.

Democratic Concordance 129 20
Socialist Party 38 22
Conservative Democratic Party 36 0
Progressive Democratic Party 35 0
Communist Party 35 6
Republican Party 34 50
Federal Party 24 10
Democratic Party 15 0
Liberal Party 11 0
New Komeito Party 9 2
Labour Party 7 1
National Party 6 6
Christian Democratic Union 5 2
Social Democratic Party 4 1
Institutional Revolutionary Party 4 2
Green Party 3 2
People's New Party 2 0
National Liberation Front 2 2
Law and Justice 2 1
People's Party 2 2
United Workers Party 2 2
New Party 1 0
National Democratic Party 1 0
New Wafd Party 1 0
Progressive National Unionist Party 1 0
Social Democratic and Labour Party 1 0
Respect Party 1 0
Health Concern Party 1 0
People's United Party 1 1
People's Revolutionary Democratic Front 1 0
People's Democratic Party 1 0
Carasian Nationality Democratic Organization 1 0
Democratic Labour Party 1 1
Bloc Riviera 1 1
Siamut 1 1
Patriotic Party 1 1
Civic Platform 1 0
United Islamic Alliance 1 1
Christian Social Union 1 0
Free Democratic Party 1 0
Union Party 1 1
Daisy-Democracy is Freedom 1 2
People's Electoral Movement 1 1
Liberation Party 1 1
People's Action Movement 1 1
People's Action Party 1 1
Covenant Party 1 1
Movement for Change and Prosperity 1 1
Free National Movement 1 1
People's National Movement 1 1
West Bay Alliance 1 1

OOC: No Muffin Waffle Party? =(

((OOC: There can be a Muffin Waffle Party. They just, uh, didn't win any seats because then I'd have to redo the whole calculator. Or, rather, Panto would because he made it. But they can exist. Anyway, since the results are sort of confusing, I should explain a little bit about the calculator. First of all, the poll results aren't anything IC. It isn't some popular vote which the calculator feeds through the electoral process. It is purely OOC data that does not exist IC in any way, shape or form so don't respond to it or comment on how unrepresentative the Assembly is or anything. From the point of view of characters in game, that poll doesn't exist. However, it does effect the outcome despite not existing because it is the input data for a calculator which determines how people do vote. What the calculator does is take each individual Member, compare only those parties that are established in that Member and divide up that Member's seats accordingly. It is biased to the center as well. So, for example, Labour is doing well everywhere it is established but it is established in only a few of the Members. Democratic Concordance, on the other hand, is doing about the same where it is established but it is established far more widely. So, to sum up, voting for a party in the poll does help, although unevenly. The poll is purely OOC and should not be referenced by characters or governments. The overall effect of the calculator is, and is meant to be, biased to the center, like most real electorates.))

((OOC: Just for Mikhail...And I know it isn't as well formatted as the last one))

According to the latest poll, if the elections were held today...

Confederal Action Party 0 0
Conservative Democratic Party 35 0
Democratic Concordance 124 18
Democratic Party 15 0
Labour Party 22 7
Liberal Party 12 0
Progressive Democratic Party 34 0
Republican Party 34 49
Socialist Party 38 22
Front for Hope 0 0
Rally of Progressive National Democrats 0 0
Social Democratic Party 4 1
Fanmi Lavalas 0 0
Struggling People's Organization 0 0
Christian Democratic Party 0 0
Democratic Alliance Party 0 0
Independent Movement for National Reconciliation 0 0
Bridge 0 0
New Komeito Party 9 2
Communist Party 12 3
People's New Party 1 0
New Party 1 0
National Democratic Party 1 0
New Wafd Party 1 0
Progressive National Unionist Party 1 0
Tomorrow Party 0 0
Social Democratic and Labour Party 1 0
Respect Party 1 0
Health Concern Party 1 0
National Alliance 0 0
United Movement 0 0
Strategic Alliance 0 0
People's Movement 0 0
People's Movement for Change 0 0
New Democracy 0 0
Coalition of the Radical Left 0 0
People's United Party 1 1
People's Revolutionary Democratic Front 1 0
People's Democratic Party 1 0
Carasian Nationality Democratic Organization 1 0
National Party 6 6
New National Party 0 0
People's Labour Movement 0 0
Christian Democratic Appeal 0 0
People'sParty for Freedom and Democracy 0 0
Party for Freedom 0 0
GreenLeft 0 0
ChristianUnion 0 0
Party for the Animals 0 0
Political Reformed Party 0 0
Federal Party 24 10
National Liberation Party 0 0
Citizens' Action Party 0 0
Libertarian Movement Party 0 0
Social Christian Unity Party 0 0
Union for Change Party 0 0
National Union Party 0 0
Homeland First Party 0 0
National Liberation Front 2 2
Democratic Labour Party 1 1
Bloc Riviera 1 1
Party Workers' Liberation Front 30th of May 0 0
National People's Party 0 0
Forsa K�rsou 0 0
Island People's Movement 0 0
Union for a Popular Movement 0 0
Union for Confederal Democracy 0 0
Fianna F�il 0 0
Fine Gael 0 0
Green Party 3 2
Solidarity 0 0
Senior Citizens Unity Party 0 0
Siamut 1 1
Innovation and Unity Party-Social Democracy 0 0
Patriotic Party 1 1
Law and Justice 2 1
Civic Platform 1 0
People's Party 2 2
United Islamic Alliance 1 1
Christian Democratic Union 5 2
Christian Social Union 1 0
Free Democratic Party 1 0
Redemption Democratic Party 0 0
Confederal White Workers' Party 0 0
Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party 0 0
Institutional Revolutionary Party 4 2
Union Party 1 1
Daisy-Democracy is Freedom 1 2
People's Electoral Movement 1 1
Liberation Party 1 1
People's Action Movement 1 1
United Workers Party 1 1
People's Action Party 1 1
Covenant Party 1 1
Movement for Change and Prosperity 1 1
Free National Movement 1 1
People's National Movement 1 1
West Bay Alliance 1 1
United Workers' Party 1 1
Muffin Waffle Party 5 0
Radical Culture Party 5 0
National Rennaissance Party 5 0

[OOC: Yay for Muffin Waffle Party! :D ]

Federal Party

Minimum wage: Leave it to the Members
Renewable energy and oil: Leave it to the Members
Fiscal responsibility: Support a countercyclical budget
Health care and insurance coverage: Leave it to the Members
Environment: Leave it to the Members
Tertiary education: Leave it to the Members
Trade agreements: Moderately regulated trade
Discrimination: Leave it to the Members
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Leave it to the Members
Reproductive rights: Leave it to the Members
Stem cell research: Leave it to the Members
Foreign policy: Support the development of an Atlantic Community of Peace
Right to privacy: Leave it to the Members
Crime: Leave it to the Members

Communist Party

Minimum wage: Support comprehensive wage and price controls
Renewable energy and oil: Nationalize the energy sector
Fiscal responsibility: Oppose emphasis on a balanced budget
Health care and insurance coverage: Nationalize the health sector
Environment: Support some regulation for the protection of workers and consumers
Tertiary education: Nationalize tertiary education
Trade agreements: Fair trade
Discrimination: Extensive affirmative action to ensure ethnic proportionality
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Oppose same-sex marriage or special protections for LGBT individuals and couples
Reproductive rights: Support abortion, contraception, sex education, limited families and other forms of birth control. Support a "two-child policy"
Stem cell research: Support extensive funding
Foreign policy: Immediate withdrawal from the Treaty of Uinen and VERITAS. Renegotiation of the Treaty of Subeita and the Xirnium Treaty. Immediate application to IFTA. Eventual application to CACE
Right to privacy: Support strict limitations on law enforcement
Crime: Support a fundamental overhaul of the criminal justice system based upon a Marxist critique, including, but not limited to, intense prosecution of white collar crime, drug policy reform, political oversight of police, community policing, intense prosecution of police violence, various prison reform measures, securing the rights of ex-convicts to employment and political participation and abolishing plea bargains

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Minerva_Karamanlis

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Flora_Haber

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/John_Palmer

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/James_Thompson

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/John_Hardy

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Sarah_Sacker

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Henri_Calvin

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Joseph_Billington

John Palmer sat down with the same small group of friends he had dinner with every Saturday. Like him, most of them were old sailors and like him most of them were now working full time in either the Labour Party or the Confederal Maritime Union. Most importantly, like him, they all enjoyed a good savoury pie. Palmer himself was having a steak and kidney pie. Bob Cam, one of his chief lieutenants in the Union and his likely successor as union president if he did receive the expected seat on the Confederal Council, was just starting on a rather large helping of shepherds’ pie. Michael Sampson, the leader of the Vasconian maritime workers before the formation of the Confederal Union, was enjoying a Lanerian –style turkey pot pie. Andrew McLeod was eating a large helping of minced pie. The four men ate like any group of friends and, although the staff at Old Bill’s knew them well, most of the other patrons didn’t recognize them as a soon-to-be Confederal Councilor and his closest colleagues.

“I’ve got to stop coming here.” Palmer said, as he said every Saturday. “Pauline’s really starting to twist my knackers about my health.” He smiled broadly and looked down at his rather large gut. “Can’t say I blame her, either.”

John Hardy smiled slightly at the report lying on his desk. He hadn’t actually read the entire document nor was there any real need to. He knew exactly what it said before it even arrived. Still, he let it set there, symbolically. The report contained plans for a decisive, joint Abt-Confederal strike against the Sons of the Reformation. The terrorist forces would be cornered in the southwestern corner of Abt. The Abtians would then make a push while Confederal troops would make the border in that area impenetrable, preventing the militarily weak Sons from practicing their normal tactic of fleeing any sort of serious, stand-up fight.

Of course, the actual battle plan was only a tiny part of the report. Most of it had to do with the working relationship between the Department of Defense, the different branches of the military and the various Member Civil Defense Forces which allowed the Gandaran and Marlund Civil Defense Forces to coordinate with a foreign military force through a format enabled by the Department. Although Hardy drew a great deal of satisfaction and relief from what he took to be the imminent defeat of the Sons, it was the constitutional and practical relationship between different parts of the Confederal armed forces and between the Confederal armed forces and allies militaries that most interested him. After all, it was material he would have to master if he were to be an effective head of the Department of Defense, a position he was coming to view as “in the bag.”

Hardy adjusted his glasses and rose from behind his desk. He smiled a bit. Service on the Confederal Council promised to be more challenging than his current position as Sahori Prime Minister, a position which would soon cease to exist anyway. The party system, the structure of his department, the constitution, they were all fairly new to him. He didn’t have the advantage of experience he had in Sahor.

Dr. Aigeus Alexopoulos did not look like a politician. He was an old man who did not try to hide his age. His skin was wrinkled and his hair grey. He wore a full beard that was more reminiscent of a Hebrew prophet or classical philosopher than of a candidate for public office. He was bald. He didn’t sound like a politician either. He didn’t speak in slogans or pander to whatever audience he happened to be addressing. Instead he delivered the same sort of erudite lectures to political crowds that he had always delivered to his students at the University of Civic Virtue.

There was a reason Alexopoulos didn’t look or talk like a politician. He had never been one before. Instead, he had studied them and the systems in which they worked for most of his adult life. He had achieved, perhaps, the highest position in his field available in his country. He chaired the Department of Political Science at the UCV, one of the two most prestigious institutes of higher learning in the Confederated Peoples and the alma mater of many of the most prominent political leaders in the nation’s history. Now, at the request of his party, he had made the decision to emerge from the realm of theory and to run for Bilbtoria’s single Senate seat as the candidate of the Conservative Democratic Party.

It was, as Alexopoulos understood more than anyone that it was a characteristic of the age of mass communications that public attention would focus on the leadership of parties and not on local candidates. He would have debates with his principle opponents, fundraising dinners and events, speeches and campaign rallies. All would be well attended but few would receive any significant media coverage or arouse much public interest. After all, the events of local candidates were often perceived simply as components of the party’s national campaign and the voters would ultimately choose between the major parties, not between Aigeus Alexopoulos and the other Bilbtorian senatorial candidates.

It wouldn’t normally have bothered Alexopoulos greatly, of course. The current party system was an improvement over the days when local aristocrats and businessmen competed personally, more on the basis of local influence and connections than that of character or policy. Moreover, while personal character remained important in a parliamentarian, Alexopoulos had great confidence in the pre-selection process for finding the best man of a given viewpoint. The fact that he was seen less for himself and more as a representative of the Conservative Democratic Party and distant Henri Calvin was an honor, albeit one that sometimes wounded his vanity or gave cause briefly to romantic reminiscences of a golden age he knew existed only in cinema.

James Thompson walked with something of stoop. It didn’t bother him that much. A man could not wholly avoid the effects of age and to be both alive and thinking clearly after so many years was in itself an achievement. He had turned 106 just this past April. That made him one of the oldest men in the world and definitely the oldest still active politician in the Confederated Peoples. Well, at least so far as humans were concerned.

Flora Haber woke up alone. It was a strange feeling and she was briefly afraid. That wasn’t something she would share with Allen, not because he would find it childish, as she did, but precisely because he would be sympathetic. Flora found few things quite so frustrating as when her husband attempted to be chivalrous. Resolving, therefore, to ignore entirely the fact that he had slipped out of bed before she awoke this morning, Flora dressed quietly and headed for the family’s modest kitchen.

Allen Harper, her husband of eleven years, was scrambling eggs over the stove. He had already set the table with three plates, glasses of orange juice and sets of silverware. He smiled slightly as she stepped into the kitchen. “Good morning, sleepy. You slept right through the alarm so I thought I would go ahead and make some breakfast.”

Viscountess Kairis was reclining on a couch in her library, her feet pulled up under her. She was reading Artistotle’s Posterior Analytics for the first time. The text, like most Greek texts in her personal library, was in the original language. Although she spoke English as well as Greek, it was still easier for her to examine complex and abstract texts in her original language. That had been truer recently than in the past. Since her withdrawal from public life after her dismissal from the presidency of the Confederal Commission, her life had been fairly isolated and she worried she was starting to get out of the habit of thinking in English. Just the other day, she had caught herself mentally translating an English phrase into Greek in order to process it.

The Newly Elected Chamber of Deputies

Democratic Concordance 130
Progressive Democratic Party 41
Socialist Party 37
Republican Party 35
Conservative Democratic Party 30
Federal Party 22
Labour Party 19
Democratic Party 14
Liberal Party 12
Communist Party 12
New Komeito Party 8
National Party 6
Christian Democratic Union 5
Muffin Waffle Party 5
Radical Culture Party 5
Social Democratic Party 4
Institutional Revolutionary Party 4
Green Party 3
National Liberation Front 2
Law and Justice 2
People's Party 2
United Workers' Party 2
People's New Party 1
New Party 1
National Democratic Party 1
Progressive National Unionist Party 1
Social Democratic and Labour Party 1
Respect Party 1
People's United Party 1
People's Revolutionary Democratic Front 1
People's Democratic Party 1
Carasian Nationality Democratic Organization 1
Democratic Labour Party 1
Bloc Riviera 1
Siamut 1
Patriotic Party 1
Civic Platform 1
United Islamic Alliance 1
Christian Social Union 1
Free Democratic Party 1
Union Party 1
Daisy-Democracy is Freedom 1
People's Electoral Movement 1
Liberation Party 1
People's Action Movement 1
People's Action Party 1
Covenant Party 1
Movement for Change and Prosperity 1
Free National Movement 1
People's National Movement 1
West Bay Alliance 1

The Newly Elected Senate

Republican Party 50
Democratic Concordance 23
Socialist Party 22
Federal Party 10
National Party 6
Communist Party 3
New Komeito Party 2
National Liberation Front 2
Green Party 2
People's Party 2
Christian Democratic Union 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party 2
Daisy-Democracy is Freedom 2
United Workers' Party 2
Labour Party 1
Social Democratic Party 1
People's United Party 1
Democratic Labour Party 1
Bloc Riviera 1
Siamut 1
Patriotic Party 1
Law and Justice 1
United Islamic Alliance 1
Union Party 1
People's Electoral Movement 1
Liberation Party 1
People's Action Movement 1
People's Action Party 1
Covenant Party 1
Movement for Change and Prosperity 1
Free National Movement 1
West Bay Alliance 1

The Newly Elected Confederal Council

Minerva Karamanlis, Viscountess Kairis, Department of Foreign Affairs, President of the Confederated Peoples, Democratic Concordance

Sarah Sacker, Department of Infrastructure, Vice-President of the Confederated Peoples, Progressive Democratic Party

Flora Haber, Department of Justice, Socialist Party

Henry Prower, Department of Finance, Republican Party

Henri Calvin, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Conservative Democratic Party

Aanand Advani, Department of Defence, Federal Party

John Palmer, Department of Industrial Relations, Labour Party

Office of the Presidency

The Abt Republic extends its congratulations to all the parties and personalities that shall be forming the Confederal legislature, the first of its kind in the history of the Resurgent Dream and those peoples that chose to rally it for a better, prosperous and stable future.

P.S. The congratulatory note would have been issued sooner, but we only now got to the bottom of the list.

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To: Her Excellency the Right Honourable Viscountess Kairis CC, President of the Confederated Peoples
The Right Honourable Sarah Sacker CC
The Honourable Flora Haber CC
The Honourable Henry Prower CC
The Honourable Henri Calvin CC
The Honourable Aanand Advani CC
The Honourable John Palmer CC

Votre Excellence, Mesdames, Messieurs,

We write to you to extend Our sincerest congratulations on your election to the Confederal Council, and to reaffirm the sincere friendship which exists between Pantocratoria and the Confederated Peoples. We hold the Confederated Peoples in the highest regard, and offer you Our best wishes in the exercise of your respective high offices.

By Our own hand at the Imperial Court of Christ Pantocrator, on the feast day of Adelelmus in the thirty-third year of Our reign,

ANDREUS IMP.
By the Grace of God, Emperor of Pantocratoria, Autocrator of the Romans, Caesar Augustus, King of France and Navarre, Equal of the Apostles, God's Vicegerent on Earth, et al

To the newly elected confederal council

Her imperial majesty Hatusu, queen of north star, sultan of the realm, lioness-of-the-desert, she-who-heaven-loves, mistress of the stars, eye-of-the-sun, daughter-of-legend, destroy-of-darkness, crystal-of-jihad, bride-of-ages, extends her hand of friendship to the newly elected council. She hopes that god may give your newly elected council peace and honorable hearts.
while happy to see unity in your land is, she-who-heaven-loves is saddened by the poor results of the United Islamic Alliance and would like in the future to see this group obtain better results.

A bright future to you
~Starian Ruling Council, the-unworthy-voice-of-she-who-brings-light-into-the-world.

United Islamic Alliance

Minimum wage: Support a reasonable minimum wage
Renewable energy and oil: Explore new energy resources while continuing to develop traditional energy resources
Fiscal responsibility: Support annually balanced budget
Health care and insurance coverage: Support Member, private and faith-based health services
Environment: Support conservation of certain wilderness areas
Tertiary education: Support Confederal funding to religious and secular institutions on an equal basis
Trade agreements: Protectionism
Discrimination: Support strong laws against religious and racial discrimination but allow leeway for citizens to express legitimate cultural values regarding gender and sexuality without prejudice to the equal rights of other citizens
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Oppose same-sex marriage or special protections for LGBT individuals and couples
Reproductive rights: Support an abortion ban except in cases of rape or to save the life of the mother and limit other birth control methods to married couples
Stem cell research: Support market-based funding
Foreign policy: Support a more "even-handed" foreign policy
Right to privacy: Support the right of law enforcement to aggressively pursue potential security threats even when it endangers the privacy of some citizens
Crime: Support aggressive enforcement and stronger sentences while ensuring freedom of worship and humane conditions to inmates in corrections facilities

Arlette Laguiller, the leader of the Trotskyist Workers’ Struggle Party, Parliamentarian, and former Amestrian Presidential candidate, congratulates the United Workers' Party on their attainment of seats in the Confederal Chamber of Deputies and the Confederal Senate (no mean feat). Hopefully their increased visibility will lead to greater victories in the future.

Once upon a time President Kasumi Liscel sat in her private office listening to the State television networks report on the Confederated Peoples Confederal elections through her little TV.

“I just don’t understand it,” Kasumi muttered to herself. “How can anyone truly look up to a collection of miniatures?”

Minister of State Sara Liscel quietly entered the office, carrying a collection of reports and several orders that needed the Presidents signature.

“Hey Sis, what you watching?”

“The end of history,” the President sneered.

Sara dropped the documents on the Presidential desk and pulled up a comfy little stool.

“Um, the screens a little blurry from this angle, I can’t really see…”

Kasumi adjusted the giant magnifying glass.

“Better?”

“Yeah...”

They listened to the announcer as he began to list the 42 minor parties.

“Let’s see if anything else is on,” Sara opinioned.

President Kasumi Liscel changed television over to the sports channel and the two sisters watched women’s Military football (soccer) instead.

******
Later that day the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter of congratulations to the members of the new Confederal Council.

The Prime Minister of the Eternal Republic Heather Gílda telephoned President Minerva Karamanlis at her home on the evening of the election results, holding a short and friendly, though mostly informal, conversation with the Danaan. During their brief chat, Prime Minister Gílda warmly congratulated Viscountess Kairis on her election to the office of President of the Confederated Peoples, and asked that she convey similar sentiments of congratulation and good wishes to her colleagues on the Confederal Council.

Prime Minister Gílda reaffirmed the importance of close diplomatic and trade relations between their two nations, particularly stressing the singular nature of their countries’ special friendship. The Prime Minister concluded her conversation by explaining how eager she was to work cooperatively and productively with Viscountess Kairis’ new government, inviting the President to a later face-to-face meeting in Naèräth where they might review diplomatic ties with an aim to further improving them, mentioning that they might also discuss the possibility of future bilateral projects of mutual benefit and reassess the current state of economic growth and geopolitical stability and security in the Europe-Atlantic.

Later the next day, short letters were sent by Lady High Protectress Viktória Seriendé and Foreign Affairs Minister Eléanor Sabëlinà, congratulating the newly elected members of the Confederal Council and wishing them all the best of luck.

United Workers' Party

Minimum wage: Support all demands for increases in the minimum wage made by the labor without entertaining the illusion that wage regulation by the capitalist state can provide any lasting solution
Renewable energy and oil: Capitalism can never restrain itself and only workers' revolution can bring about sustainable development.
Fiscal responsibility: Oppose as a capitalist excuse for attacking the social gains of the working class
Health care and insurance coverage: Support the struggle of the working people for better health care guaranteed by law, again without entertaining any illusions about solutions of any real merit within capitalism
Environment: Capitalism can never contain itself and only workers' revolution can bring about sustainable development.
Tertiary education: Support secular, free tertiary education
Trade agreements: Oppose
Discrimination: Support the struggles of national minorities without fostering illusions
Same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: Freedom of conscience issue
Reproductive rights: Support women's struggle for reproductive rights without fostering any illusions
Stem cell research: Support funding
Foreign policy: Proletarian internationalism
Right to privacy: Law enforcement is an instrument of repression in service to the ruling class and must be limited
Crime: Law enforcement is an instrument of repression in service to the ruling class and must be limited

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To: The Confederal Council of the Confederated Peoples of the Resurgent Dream

His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Regent Damoen Wasterin sends his congratulations to the newly elected members of the Confederal Council of the Confederated Peoples. His Royal Highness expresses his sincere admiration for these torchbearers of this new government, and wishes them a bright path in defining the future of the Confederated Peoples.

His Royal Highness also expresses his continued wish for cooperation between the Confederated Peoples, and the Grand Kingdom of Aerion. He hopes for future treaties, and relations between our peoples.

In HRH's Service,
Amdyle Daleer
Personal Secretary of His Royal Highness

All messages of congratulations were, of course, promptly and graciously returned.

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