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--Election Special--

Hello once again, I'm Don Evens coming to you live from the Royal Congressional Complex in Hamptonshire City. The recent dissolution of the Royal House of Representatives has thrown the political landscape here in Hamptonshire completely on its head. Isn't that right, Rick?

Yes, Don. Even though the House is the weaker of the two chambers, Prime Minister Olendorf would certainly get a boost if Narp could pick up more seats.

As always, Rick is right. If NARP comes away from this election with a majority in the House, that party's rather aggressive political agenda is almost assured of being a success.

Yes, but if the Popular Party or the Unity Coalition manages an upset we could see this new party kiled before it even became a force in Hamptonian politics.

I think that this reporter can safely say that Hamptonshire hasn't seen an election of this importance in quite some time.

That's right Don. This special election could very well determine our nation's path for generations to come.

Too true, Rick, too true...and that's why we're here to help you. We will be showing you some information about the five major parties of Hamptonshire and over the next week HNN will be bringing you live debates between the highest ranking members of the competing parties.

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Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti (Nationalist Republican People's Party)

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Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti
We are the majority, We are the people, We shall not be silenced

Party Leader: Senator Bernard Allenby, President of the Royal Congress
Highest Ranking Member: Prime Minister Chester Olendorf; Senator Bernard Allenby, President of the Royal Congress
Coalition: None.
Platform: The Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti is a right wing, conservative party. Focused on national defense, national security, and nationalist foreign policy. The cornerstone of NARP is the "Hamptonshire First Policy". Ranging from domestic issues to foreign relations, the "Hamptonshire First Policy" seeks to make Hamptonshire into a first rate power, at nearly any cost. NARP has also seemed to embrace the former Republic Party's tenant of the creation of a Constitutional Monarchy with a figurehead Grand Duke.
Positives: Enjoys the support of over 6/10ths of the electorate, NARP politicans are known for their powerful oratory skills. Enjoys the support of many so called "Protectorate Hamptonians"- Citizens of Hamptonshire that don't actually live in Hamptonshire Proper.
Negatives: While the mainstream of the Party is reasonable, the far right wing faction of the Party is highly militaristic, isolationist and xenophobic. The merger of the Nationalist Union and Republic Parties has caused more moderate party leaders to be left out of the fold with more extreme members rising to party prominence. Strongly disliked by royalists and "true moderates".


Central Coalition

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Central Coalition
Hand in Hand, For the Good of All People

Party Leader: Senator Henry Flint
Highest Ranking Member: Lord Phillip Rosecrans, Commander-General of the Royal Armed Forces, Defense Minister
Coalition: Unity Coalition
Platform: The aptly named Central Coalition Party is a centrist, progressive moderate party. It is focused on law and order and domestic issues. Both its supporters and detractors call it the "Status Quo" Party. Up until the last decade, the Central Coalition was the most powerful and respected party in Hamptonshire. Due to the changing international landscape and a lack of charisma among its Congressional Leaders, the Central Coalition has been quickly losing ground to the more 'populist' and reactionary parties.
Positives: Nearly the entire government bureaucracy and most of the Royal Family are members or supporters of the Central Coalition. Voters always know that they can rely upon the steadiness and long term vision of the CC.
Negatives: Due to the centrist nature of the Central Coalition and the lack of charismatic figures, the Party is fast losing ground to both NARP and the Popular Party. The CC is on the brink of losing its status as the offical Opposition Party to the ever growing Popular Party.


New Frontier Party

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New Frontier Party
Economic Advancement Through Social Progression

Party Leader: Governor Norman Koines
Highest Ranking Member: Alan Bluebridge, Acting Finance Minister
Coalition: Unity Coalition
Platform: Formed by the combination of the centre-left Union Democrats and the leftist Labor Parties, the New Frontier Party is Hamptonshire's only left leaning political party. They seek to place an income tax on the population (Hamptonshire currently has no income tax) to pay for a wide range of social programs. New Frontier pushes for a decrease in the funding for the Royal Armed Forces and increased regulation of business. The party is increasingly starting to distance itself from the Central Coalition.
Positives: Widely admired as an idealistic party, New Frontier is the champion of Hamptonshire's lower classes.
Negatives: Only 4% of the population falls under the category of "Lower Classes". It is also Hamptonshire's smallest major party.


Popular Party

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Popular Party
Individual Choice Breeds Collective Good

Party Leader: Congressman Jacob Astor, Speaker of the Royal House of Representatives
Highest Ranking Member: Congressman Jacob Astor, Speaker of the Royal House of Representatives
Coalition: People's Front
Platform: The Popular Party is a centre-right, moderate libertarian-style party. Focused mainly on business issues and smaller government. It is the choice of conservative voters who don't like the nationalism and militarism of NARP. The Popular Party, as a libertarian-type party, support the idea that the people know best how to run their own affairs.
Positives: Favorite party of Hamptonshire's businessmen and women. Its libertarian policies are attractive to voters under 50 years of age. The Popular Party is on course, should the Central Coaliton do poorly in this election, to become the official Opposition. Until the unification of the Nationalist Union and Republic Parties, the Popular Party was the largest bloc in the RHR.
Negatives: The Popular Party's waivering support of the Royal Armed Forces and its oppositon to a draft under any circumstance run contrary to traditional Hamptonian patriotism.


Independent Progressive Party

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Independent Progressives
The Best For All At The Expense of None

Party Leader: Governor Wiliam Kruger
Highest Ranking Member: None
Coalition: People's Front
Platform: The Independent Progressives are Hamptonshire's newest Federal and Provincial level political party. The balance the ideas of classical liberalism, the concept of the Nightwatchman State, federalism, and modern libertarianism. The IP doesn't quite fit into the traditional Left-Right political spectrum.
Positives: New up and coming party quickly winning solid support in Hamptonshire's island provinces. The party is respected but is seen as not yet able to form a true alternative to the established major parties of Hamptonshire.
Negatives: The Independent Progressive Party is accused of taking the positions of nearly all other major Hamptonian political parties and toning them down a notch.

I will, of course, throw my support fully and unwaveringly behind the Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti, our political brothers in the Grand Duchy. They gave me their support in my recent election, and not only is this returning the favour, it is my attempt to show that we must stick together as brothers of the conservative ideology, referring of course to our declaration of brotherhood in the Pacitalian general election.

I wish you the best of luck, and, of course, any type of support you need will be instantly provided, be it money, printed campaign posters, campaign propaganda or whatnot. Stay the course and your citizens will reward you with another term in office. I believe it will happen.

Sincerely,

Timothy Ell
Count of West Doheans
Leader of the Federation of Progressive Democrats
Prime Minister of Pacitalia

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Your World, Your News

Good evening, Alice Parker here at the HBC news desk in Seaburg. Today the election season kicked off with candidates from all the major parties campaigning hard in their home districts. Over the next forty-five day we'll be brining you up to the minute campaign news as well as speeches made by senior officials.

To kick of this unusually early, and short, campaign season Senator Allenby addressed a two thousand strong crowd of Narp supporters outside of his central Seaburg home. Here is the speech.

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Today we are at the cusp of a new age. A time when the entire world will be open before our very eyes, a time when our children will be able to live in freedom, a time when our economy will be the envy of all nations, a time when Hamptonshire will take its rightful place in the Sun.

That is the future we embrace! That is the future we are fighting for, not for ourselves or for you, but for all Hamptonian children. Unless our nation changes radically within a generation the Grand Duchy as we know it will be nothing but a memory, an international joke. The morals and guiding principals that have guided us for so long are being tossed aside by populists and demagogues. Our political system is rotting from within, it is being torn apart by people that have no love of this Nation, only love for themselves.

It is time, my fellow Citizens, to join together with one voice and cast out those that seek to harm us. Together we can restore this nation to what it is truly meant to be and together we can bring ourselves into a glorious new future.

It does not matter if you disagree with some of the individual policies and beliefs of the Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti. We ask not for your blind devotion to our specific programs, we ask only for your vote so that we may combat those forces that seek to bog Hamptonshire down in the muck of history. If we continue to allow the politicians from those factions that seek only to serve themselves to divide us along fictional political lines, we will be utterly and totally lost!

Do not think of yourselves. Think of your children, think of the future of this nation! You have the solemn responsibility to chose those leaders you think are best for all Hamptonians. Do not fall into the trap of electing legislators that seek to serve one part of this great nation at the cost of another. Do not allow self serving politicians to remain in office while our society collapses before our very eyes. Do not be tricked by fanciful ideas promulgated by corrupt and inept parties.

Use your heart! Use your mind! Use your soul! There is but one way we can save ourselves, but one way we can save our children, but one way that we can save our nation!

Vote for your Narpist candidate in the election!

We are the majority, We are the people, We shall not be silenced!

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Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti
We are the majority, We are the people, We shall not be silenced

Official Press Release

NARP is heartened by the support given to us by Count Timothy Ell and the Federation of Progressive Democrats. The Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti believes fully in the good of conservatism in Hamptonshire and abroad. It is truly a sad thing that parties that share our ideology are in the minority in this world; it makes one dread the future.

NARP specifically supports continued close relations with Pacitalia as well as an expansion of economic and military links with our Pacitlian brothers and sisters. While Narp cannot accept foreign support, it is enough to know that we have friends. Narpists and all Hamptonians shall never forget what you have done for us and what you shall continue to do for us.

We are the majority, We are the people, We shall not be silenced


In Friendship and Brotherhood,

Senator Bernard Allenby
Executive Chairman, Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti
President of the Royal Congress
Grand Duchy of Hamptonshire

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We support the New Frontier Party, and it's ideas.

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Your World, Your News

Good morning, Chris Waters here at the HBC Studio here at Allenby Center in beautiful Seaburg.

I'm here today with my special guest, Prime Minister Olendorf. Mister Prime Minister, thank you for coming.

It's my pleasure Chris.

Before I start asking you about the Special Election, I'd like to take some time to ask you about your health.

Alright...if you must.

Doctor Olendorf, over the past seven years you have had eight heart attacks, admittedly most of them minor, two minor strokes, and six fairly major operations. By the estimates of my producers and the 'Center for a Responsable Government', you've been in hospital or in recovery from a medical proceedure for a combined total of nearly five hundred days since becoming Prime Minister.

That's right though I don't really see a question there.

My question is, with all due respect, should you really remain as Prime Minister. Shouldn't you step aside and allow someone a bit more robust to take the reigns?

Well Chris, with all due respect, I will remain Prime Minister until such a time as I lose the confidence of the Royal Senate. While its true that I have had rather extensive medical treatment over the past seven years, I think it proves my dedication to this job. Everytime something puts me into the hospital, I bounce right back to help lead this nation. To fight the good fight.

Thank you sir. Now I have a more serious question- Why is NARP focusing so much effort and political capital on the Federal State Ministry proposal?

I know it may seem a bit strange to some Hamptonians that we have built one of our main policy areas around the creation of a Ministry, but what this is really about is the nature of government as we know it.

The creation of the Federal State Ministry will place under one roof, and one chain of command, five different Ministries and nearly two dozen Ministries of State. Not only will the FSM allow us to cut Federal administration costs by nearly twenty percent but by placing those organs of government most necessary for the continued health and security of the Grand Duchy together, decisions can be made quicker and more efficiently.

What is your response to critics that attack the FSM as a "buearucratic super-ministry designed to centralize authority under a select group of elites"?

First of, Chris, if I remember correctly that comment came from Senator Wilkens of the New Frontier. If I also remember correctly, he's in line to inherit a viscountcy from his grandfather. I'm always amazed when aristocrats attack supposed groups of "elites".

Second, the FSM will do nothing more than create an apparatus that can effectively and swiftly deal with all threats to the Grand Duchy. By centralizing authority and eliminating redundancy the Federal State Ministry can, and will, quantitatively improve the quality of life and security of all Hamptonians.

I'll continue my interview with the Prime Minister after these messages.

Official Statement from The Imperial Union of The Island of Rose:

The Imperial Union hereby supports the NARP Coalition in their bid for the Royal House. We are willing to provide them with monetary support and/or security if need be. They have been running the Grand Duchy for years, and we know that they will continue to run it. Therefore, the Imperial Union states "A vote for NARP is a vote for a new age of prosperity". And yes, you can use that in your campaign. Now, if you excuse me, I have to go back to running for Grand Chancellor. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Imperial President
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To: Senator Henry Flint
From: Sergei Ilyanov

Look, we both know that the Grand Duchy is in danger of basically, getting
screwed over. I was a friend of the Grand Duke. I was Knighted by him. Now
if you don't win this election, me and my friends are going to be very angry
people. Now unless you people start being charasmatic, you are not going
win this election. Now, I'm offering you PR lessons for free. It's your choice
if you want them, Comrade. Sorry if this is so short, I have to run for Grand
Chancellor you know.
Sergei Ilyanov

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Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti
We are the majority, We are the people, We shall not be silenced

Official Press Release

We thank the Imperial Union for its support. The Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti is the only way by which Hamptonshire can continue to grow, if foreign nations and citizens can so plainly see this basic fact, ordinary Hamptonians voters are sure to see it also.

While Hamptonian law forbids foreign supports of political parties and our own Narpist beliefs preclude us from accepting your offer, it is good enough to know that you at least made the effort. The Nationalist Republic People's Party will remember what you have done here this day for decades to come.

We are the majority, We are the people, We shall not be silenced


In Friendship and Brotherhood,

Senator Bernard Allenby
Executive Chairman, Nationalistisk Republikaner Folkeparti
President of the Royal Congress
Grand Duchy of Hamptonshire


To: Sergei Ilyanov
From: Senator Henry Flint

It is an established fact for all those truly knowledgable in Hamptonian
politics that should the Narpists win, Hamptonshire will be fundamentally,
and dangerously, changed. I accept your offer of discrete PR lesson, but you
must be aware that the Central Coalition isn't losing merely because we lack
charisma. The people's heart and minds have changed, and we can't turn the
tide in only forty five days.

Should you need any assistance from the CC for your own campaign, don't
hesistate to ask. Our membership rolls may be decreasing but we coffers are
still full. To be honest, we have more money than we are legally permitted
to spend. Ain't that a kick in the pants...

Good luck and may fortune be with us all.
Henry Flint

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