15-02-2004, 06:53
Today an unprecedented step was taken by WestMoon's Premiere today when he announced the first open elections in West Moon history.
This is a surprise move by the government and most pundits are commenting that it will never work in a nation that has responded to dissent with military crackdowns and mass executions (using chemical weapons).
What elections West Moon did have were rigged by Whittier or by West Moon generals anc communist party members seeking to hold on to political power.
Today however, in the first step toward open elections, Premiere Ranchov signed a law, passed by the West Moon politburo, legalizing opposition political parties.
The move was met with outrage with in the communist party, and the military. But neither is believed strong enough to move against the all powerful Ranchov who has strong connections with the WM version of the KGB and other sectors of WEst Moon society.
Meantime, Ranchov signed a law banning torture of crime suspects and legalizing freedom of speech and protest.
Military officials are itching to repeal the new laws claiming they will result in civil unrest and the collapse of the West Moon nation.
They said they will be putting up their candidate to oppose Ranchov on the grounds he is too soft with WM's neighbors. "We should be obliterating those lunar nations that refuse to hand over their soverignty, not making treasonous deals of peace with them!" said Colonel Isoan as he spat on a mural portrait of Ranchov who recently signed treaties of alliance and trade with several of the other lunar nations.
The lunar Nationalist Socialist Party is one of the first parties formed under the Ranchov reforms. But their candidate is so extreme that it is believed unlikely that he will garner votes in any election. (The NSP's platform is one racial purification and eugenics.) Their candidate, Randolph Mussolini Hitler Rodriguez, attacked Ranchov as a race mixer and jew lover. Rodriguez is famous for his speeches claiming that race mixing will result in West Moon being overrun by inferior races from other nations.
It is not certain if the election will go through but what is certain is that if it does, it is bound to be quite interesting.
This is a surprise move by the government and most pundits are commenting that it will never work in a nation that has responded to dissent with military crackdowns and mass executions (using chemical weapons).
What elections West Moon did have were rigged by Whittier or by West Moon generals anc communist party members seeking to hold on to political power.
Today however, in the first step toward open elections, Premiere Ranchov signed a law, passed by the West Moon politburo, legalizing opposition political parties.
The move was met with outrage with in the communist party, and the military. But neither is believed strong enough to move against the all powerful Ranchov who has strong connections with the WM version of the KGB and other sectors of WEst Moon society.
Meantime, Ranchov signed a law banning torture of crime suspects and legalizing freedom of speech and protest.
Military officials are itching to repeal the new laws claiming they will result in civil unrest and the collapse of the West Moon nation.
They said they will be putting up their candidate to oppose Ranchov on the grounds he is too soft with WM's neighbors. "We should be obliterating those lunar nations that refuse to hand over their soverignty, not making treasonous deals of peace with them!" said Colonel Isoan as he spat on a mural portrait of Ranchov who recently signed treaties of alliance and trade with several of the other lunar nations.
The lunar Nationalist Socialist Party is one of the first parties formed under the Ranchov reforms. But their candidate is so extreme that it is believed unlikely that he will garner votes in any election. (The NSP's platform is one racial purification and eugenics.) Their candidate, Randolph Mussolini Hitler Rodriguez, attacked Ranchov as a race mixer and jew lover. Rodriguez is famous for his speeches claiming that race mixing will result in West Moon being overrun by inferior races from other nations.
It is not certain if the election will go through but what is certain is that if it does, it is bound to be quite interesting.