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The recent civil upheaval and the dismissal of Vladimir Overdanski as president as lead to a new presidential race. Full Story found here (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=382202)

Candidates:

Name: Boris O'Connor
Age: 54
Marital Status: Married
Political Party: National Centrist Party (NCP)
Stance: Keep military spending in the status-quo. Increase welfare and health spending. Wants to eliminate transfer of overseas work, but also provide large subsidies to the Major industries of Artitsa. (Uranium Mining, Arms Manufactoring, and Beef Based agriculture.) Boris O'Connor would like to see a reduction in State power, and more control by the federal government. He would also like to open and improve relations with many Countries, such as expanding the NAP with Iuthia.
Biography:Boris O'Connor was born in Southern Artitsa, in a middle class family. Born and raised in Arklow, Boris is accustomed to city life, and understands the need for such social reforms. Boris rose through the government ranks, from senator, to diplomat, to Minister of Foreign Affairs. Boris knows how to deal with other nations.
Military Service: Like all Artitsan's, Boris O'Connor served the mandatory two years in the military, but never persued it further.
Criminal Record: Driving under the influence.


Name: Dimitri Milosvaji
Age: 36
Marital Status: Married
Political Party: New Progressive Liberal Party (NPLP)
Stance: Increased military funding achieved by greater economy and reduction of money spent on the Courts; He believes that a greater programme in the Schools of Artitsa will prevent crime, along with increased welfare and social assistance programs. Dimitri will have government businesses, controlled by the State. Social Equality will be introduced. The greater amount of money entering Artitsan Coffers will go towards the Military, and Arms Manufactoring will skyrocket. Export of such arms will eliminate the current $642,679,414,105 trade deficit.
Biography:Dimitri Milosvaji was born in Northeastern Artitsa, heavily populated by Russian immigrants. He was the child of two Communist Hardliners, firmly believing in their government. When they moved to Artitsa in the 1980's they had Dimitri. He was educated in fine Artitsan schools, later garnering a Political Science Degree at Kamskgrad University. After several years in the government he was elected a Senator in the Duma, becoming very popular and had a large military backing.
Military Service: 2 Years Mandatory, 6 Years full service as Infantry. Veteran of Kamskgrad uprising, as well as defence of Serbia.
Criminal Record: None.


Name: Elaine Vilosovic
Age: 28
Marital Status: Unmarried
Political Party: Conservative Green Republicans (CGR)
Stance: Elaine wishes to provide more money to perserving the Environment. A massive cut in military spending to introduce massive subsidies to the economy. She is a firm believer in Capitalism, but also preservation of the environment. Social Inequality goes unnoticed by her, nor does she care. Darwin's theory heavily applies to this Candidate, and wishes to push Capitalism past whatever the United States could possibly have achieved.
Biography: Elaine Vilosovic is the daughter of a rich Russian man and a politically powerful Irish woman. Her parents had a high amount of influence in Artitsa's affairs, until they were assassinated by an unknown assailent. Several sources indicate it was the work of OASIS, Artitsa's Secret Information Service. Elaine had been raised like royalty, accustomed to diplomacy, often acting as a representative of Artitsa. Her massive amount of wealth allowed her to achieve a very high degree of education, and power.
Military Service: None
Criminal Record: None (That is known of. Rumours of charges being deleted are rampant.)

Bump.

Polls for Artitsan Citizens will be opening in 30 minutes (RL). Dimitri Milosvaji has recieved a massive amount of Politically backing, playing a large influence over the Artitsan people.

KNN Journalist Condoleeza van der Meer was sitting in front of her computer. Mocking herself. "Bah, that assignment was due pretty soon", she considered, as she still had not found out the stances of the candidates in the Artitsan elections.

She took another drag from her cigarette, casually blowing the smoke up towards the ceiling as BunnyNet(tm) loaded for a complete websearch. Bored and unattentive, she put it out in her coffee.

Candidates policies on improving relation towards Knootoss, she queried, limiting her search to Artitsa. She included newsgroups and all the other shit that usually gave her the more in-depth info.

Impatiently she took another sip of her coffee, which tasted strangely tar-like.

To All Parties Interested
We would be interested in which party would support our nation the most, especially in the areas of trade and military support - we are hoping for a positive response from the New Progressive Liberal Party, as that is who we currenty support. If the NPLP accepts the offer I am about to propose, then we shall certainly support them;
An arms contract between the Revolutionary Soviet Union and Artitsa, concerning all types of Military Technology that Artitsa is importing
We hope that this offer, should it be accepted, would improve links between Artitsa and the Revolutionary Soviet Union. We would like to establish a small embassy in your nation, and you are free to do likewise.
What say ye?
Comrade Josef Dorsal, Autocrat of the Soviet Union

Boris O'Connor favours improved relations with all nations of the world, including Knootoss. However, only Dimitri Milosvaji is prepared to improve relations with a select few nations, numbering around two dozen. The list does include Knootoss. Dimitri Milosvaji frowns upon free trade, but he can always come around if there are benefits to the people of Artitsa. The list can be found on the NPLP website.

To All Parties Interested
We would be interested in which party would support our nation the most, especially in the areas of trade and military support - we are hoping for a positive response from the New Progressive Liberal Party, as that is who we currenty support. If the NPLP accepts the offer I am about to propose, then we shall certainly support them;
An arms contract between the Revolutionary Soviet Union and Artitsa, concerning all types of Military Technology that Artitsa is importing
We hope that this offer, should it be accepted, would improve links between Artitsa and the Revolutionary Soviet Union. We would like to establish a small embassy in your nation, and you are free to do likewise.
What say ye?
Comrade Josef Dorsal, Autocrat of the Soviet Union

Boris and Dimitri both support the arms contract, but Elaine is firmally against Military spending.

Brandi Valschayes, the Director of TEMAE (The Economic Monitoring Agency of Etaros), was doing her usual searches online. She came across something about Artitsan elections, something she usually would have passed up and continued her monitoring activities. Her job was to find information on economies around the world to keep up their activities, report any drastic changes, and take special note of more subtle ones. Her position was one of great weight; her failure to find a specific change in the economy of a trade partner of a trade partner could create drops in the Etaran economy. It was a very intricate web, and the mention of Iuthia in the Artitsan candidate list had intrigued her. When she realized what was at stake, she immediately filed a report to her superiors in the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

From there, the report went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where staff would transport it to the ones who needed to read it. Due to the massive bureaucracy of the place, it took several hours before the report even reached the desk of a lowly secretary, who then ordered its shipment to her boss, who then ordered to his, who then ordered it to hers. After an hour or two of transportation, a copy of the report arrived on the desk of Liëssa Ciryatan, Minister of Foreign Affairs. She moved it to the side in place of something more important. About half an hour later, she finally read through the report. A small noise of interest was heard from her mouth, and she called the Erasito to inform him of the situation.

Ëtaros received the call just as he was beginning to straighten up his desk for the next day's work. "Well, yes, Liëssa, I'm glad you called. It's not really such a pressing matter and I don't know how it got to your desk so quickly, but I think it shouldn't hurt to support a candidate. Who's winning?" She sighed, sounding slightly annoyed. "The communist. I just told you that." He fought the urge to growl. Communism was his enemy. "Support the capitalist. It's in our best interests. If the commie wins, we can deal with it. If the capitalist wins, we've earned another asset for our economy." Liëssa assented, and immediately called the necessary people. It was then announced to the media that the UKE supported Elaine Vilosovic.

The UCSNE has yet to endorse a candidate, though it is likely to be Dimitri, most analysts say. While this seems odd due to the Centrist Party's transition to Draka rule, the end result may be affected by this arms contract.

With Hyland-Nikolaas starting to face some troubles in New Empire from unconglomerated corporations or HNI member corporations working outside of the conglomerate, there are worries that the Hogswetian arms deal that rather than having Artitsa exporting weapons to Hogsweat, would serve the opposite. Though HNI executives seem confident their line of products better suits the needs of one of the cofounding member's homeland, there is concerns a loss of HNI sales in Hogsweat that is endorsed by these canidates may have reprecussions on the UCSNE economy.

The Five Civilized Nations fully support the nomination of Dimitri Milosvaji for the presidency. As the negotiations begin between the nations of New Empire, Artista, and ourselves on the subject of the Five Civilized Nations becoming a full partner in the Hyland-Nikolaas Corporation, we feel that Dimitri Milosvaji will best enable the creation of a tripartite conglomerate.

Well then, we fully support Dmitri Milosvaji and his plight to be President of Artitsa. We hope, should be become President, that our arms contract between our two glorious nations shall flourish and our Armies shall grow strong to protect the people of our Nations. The only qualms we have with Boris O' Connor is his devaluement of State Power.
Comrade Josef Dorsal, Autocrat of the RSUH

Polls for Artitsan Citizens are coming to a close. Exit polls indicate a 2% to 3% lead for Elaine Vilosovic. Polls will be completely closed and votes tallied in under 20 RL minutes.

With votes tallied... it would appear that the exit polls were quite skewed. Dimitri Milosvaji has won by 8%.
The final tallies are:
Milosvaji: 58%
O'Connor: 28%
Elaine Vilosovic: 14%