Pacitalia
25-09-2006, 23:15
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Saturday 30th September 2006
No captain, my captain
Why the PSC should form the country's
next government as a listless FPD attempts
to get its house in order
TIMIOCATO
Until January, at the very least, integrity, honesty and good governance were the founding principles of the Federation of Progressive Democrats (FPD) while in power. From Santo Ragazzo through to the administration of Dr Timotaio Ell, FPD governments have been celebrated for their transparency, accountability and ability to deliver results and keep realistic promises while making no unrealistic ones to start. Competency and statesmanship unmatched by previous governments and even foreign counterparts was a hallmark of the two former prime ministers' administrations, but an horrific oversight has led to the decline of one of the world's foremost political parties, to the point where it truly needs a rest -- time off to determine its new direction, find a new leader and turn the ship away from the whirlpool that threatens to permanently drown it.
When Albinanda Serodini and the FPD refused to select a new party head through a leadership convention on 10th September they unwittingly threw their own organisation for a serious loop. Not only did it send a clear message to Pacitalian politicos that the FPD was either unwilling or incapable of using minimal time to the maximum extent to reform the party and set a new course, it also sent a message that the FPD was urgently trying to step out of its role as governing machine and into a new one as second-fiddle opposition to another party's government. In other words, the sheer size of the FPD means that it requires more than just thirty days to select a new leader.
Apart from the inherent flaws in the current Pacitalian political methodology for processing interim governments, the excuse is ridiculous. Had the FPD been cognisant enough in the first place to recognise the shortcomings of Constantino Sorantanali it is quite obvious perhaps even Serodini herself would be leading an effective and powerful FPD government, the third-consecutive for the party. Instead, the FPD is now wallowing second in opinion polls due to the perception among the general public that the party is a run by a council of the inept and has no way to reform itself.
Perhaps a problem of the FPD is its operational methods. Its politics have been reformed by the Ell administration to better suit an intensified political climate of the twenty-first century, but management of day-to-day party functions has been based primarily on ideas from the last century, something that just will not do for Pacitalian voters. The party echelon squirms at the thought of how the business of the FPD is run, from donations to advertising; even spin technique lags that of the PSC and Greens. Yet, somehow, voters (at least before 2006) found the right-of-centre Federation the most desirable of the parties.
And so, a difficult question has risen from the masquerade of the FPD in 2006. In fact, it is a rather juicy paradox. Does Pacitalia, an ultracapitalist libertarian society, punish the only consistently functional and productive governing party it has had for at least half a century at the voting booth on 16th October, thus paving the way for a socialist coalition to enter government? Not only does the thought of that send collective shivers down the spine of the nation, it goes against the moral and political fundamentals of a fiscally conservative republic like Pacitalia. Unfortunate for the PSC, in addition to their political views, is the fact that they have not formed government for twenty-one years, and so most voters' perceptions of the party are either clouded with the time passed since 1985, or the EVP are too young and were either not yet born or ineligible to vote.
The election of a socialist government would create an interesting political climate and form an unexpected dynamic among the Big Three. Hamptonshire recently elected a left-centre government when they chose Wolfgang Hayek's Independent Progressives in August, and the United Kingdom has been under the thumb of social democrats since 1997. Both states are decidedly ultracapitalist (to their own extents) and libertarian, so it is just as curious of a situation to observers of Big Three politics that a third left-of-centre government might be elected in the triumvirate.
Regardless of who wins on 16th October, the underlying message is that a party without direction, without a leader and lacking order should not and cannot govern a country as important to the global economy and the world's political structure as Pacitalia. Instead, voters should, at least temporarily, give the social-democrats of Pacitalia a chance to govern, albeit in a stable coalition and not a majority. During that time, the FPD must realign its house quickly and effectively, and take a major role in the new political framework that will be drawn up while the next government serves, if it is to retain any credibility it has gained over the last nineteen years. If they cannot, there remains no real right-of-centre option in domestic politics, and as such, this will give way to a long, ubiquitous series of coalition governments lasting mere months, and a string of expensive elections that, combined, will produce nothing but further consternation and apathy among voters.
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Saturday 30th September 2006
No captain, my captain
Why the PSC should form the country's
next government as a listless FPD attempts
to get its house in order
TIMIOCATO
Until January, at the very least, integrity, honesty and good governance were the founding principles of the Federation of Progressive Democrats (FPD) while in power. From Santo Ragazzo through to the administration of Dr Timotaio Ell, FPD governments have been celebrated for their transparency, accountability and ability to deliver results and keep realistic promises while making no unrealistic ones to start. Competency and statesmanship unmatched by previous governments and even foreign counterparts was a hallmark of the two former prime ministers' administrations, but an horrific oversight has led to the decline of one of the world's foremost political parties, to the point where it truly needs a rest -- time off to determine its new direction, find a new leader and turn the ship away from the whirlpool that threatens to permanently drown it.
When Albinanda Serodini and the FPD refused to select a new party head through a leadership convention on 10th September they unwittingly threw their own organisation for a serious loop. Not only did it send a clear message to Pacitalian politicos that the FPD was either unwilling or incapable of using minimal time to the maximum extent to reform the party and set a new course, it also sent a message that the FPD was urgently trying to step out of its role as governing machine and into a new one as second-fiddle opposition to another party's government. In other words, the sheer size of the FPD means that it requires more than just thirty days to select a new leader.
Apart from the inherent flaws in the current Pacitalian political methodology for processing interim governments, the excuse is ridiculous. Had the FPD been cognisant enough in the first place to recognise the shortcomings of Constantino Sorantanali it is quite obvious perhaps even Serodini herself would be leading an effective and powerful FPD government, the third-consecutive for the party. Instead, the FPD is now wallowing second in opinion polls due to the perception among the general public that the party is a run by a council of the inept and has no way to reform itself.
Perhaps a problem of the FPD is its operational methods. Its politics have been reformed by the Ell administration to better suit an intensified political climate of the twenty-first century, but management of day-to-day party functions has been based primarily on ideas from the last century, something that just will not do for Pacitalian voters. The party echelon squirms at the thought of how the business of the FPD is run, from donations to advertising; even spin technique lags that of the PSC and Greens. Yet, somehow, voters (at least before 2006) found the right-of-centre Federation the most desirable of the parties.
And so, a difficult question has risen from the masquerade of the FPD in 2006. In fact, it is a rather juicy paradox. Does Pacitalia, an ultracapitalist libertarian society, punish the only consistently functional and productive governing party it has had for at least half a century at the voting booth on 16th October, thus paving the way for a socialist coalition to enter government? Not only does the thought of that send collective shivers down the spine of the nation, it goes against the moral and political fundamentals of a fiscally conservative republic like Pacitalia. Unfortunate for the PSC, in addition to their political views, is the fact that they have not formed government for twenty-one years, and so most voters' perceptions of the party are either clouded with the time passed since 1985, or the EVP are too young and were either not yet born or ineligible to vote.
The election of a socialist government would create an interesting political climate and form an unexpected dynamic among the Big Three. Hamptonshire recently elected a left-centre government when they chose Wolfgang Hayek's Independent Progressives in August, and the United Kingdom has been under the thumb of social democrats since 1997. Both states are decidedly ultracapitalist (to their own extents) and libertarian, so it is just as curious of a situation to observers of Big Three politics that a third left-of-centre government might be elected in the triumvirate.
Regardless of who wins on 16th October, the underlying message is that a party without direction, without a leader and lacking order should not and cannot govern a country as important to the global economy and the world's political structure as Pacitalia. Instead, voters should, at least temporarily, give the social-democrats of Pacitalia a chance to govern, albeit in a stable coalition and not a majority. During that time, the FPD must realign its house quickly and effectively, and take a major role in the new political framework that will be drawn up while the next government serves, if it is to retain any credibility it has gained over the last nineteen years. If they cannot, there remains no real right-of-centre option in domestic politics, and as such, this will give way to a long, ubiquitous series of coalition governments lasting mere months, and a string of expensive elections that, combined, will produce nothing but further consternation and apathy among voters.