Pacitalia
27-12-2006, 23:35
From L'Actualitato
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Workers' Cooperative Alliance leader Jávier Grandinetti (pictured) joined
with Anarchists leader Vera Campagnolo and Communist Party first-
secretary and leader Lemvi Megescu to announce that their three
parties would merge to form a single party known as the "Egalitarians".
The new party intends to move slightly right to a more moderate
socialist position to fill the gap left by the governing PSC, which
moved closer to the centre to become more appealing to voters.
Communists, anarchists and the proletariat no more
Three parties join forces in a bid to stop splitting the left-wing vote
Nezo Iera
Senior political correspondent, Timiocato
Three of Pacitalia's left-wing parties have joined forces in a concerted attempt to stop splitting the vote on their half of the political spectrum, and to try and limit the centre-right Federation of Progressive Democrats' chances of returning to power in an election expected in the spring of next year.
Jávier Grandinetti, the leader of the Workers' Cooperative Alliance of Pacitalia, joined Communist Party first-secretary/leader Lemvi Megescu and Anarchists leader Vera Campagnolo at a press conference announcing the merger. They said the party will follow "limited amounts of existing beliefs and values", instead switching to a more generally welfarist, egalitarian party.
The new "Egalitarians" party will officially ratify its charter and announce its colour scheme at a preliminary session in Antiguabanta, Meritate, next month, meaning that the three parties remain in their current status and existence in the two parliamentary chambers for at least two or three weeks longer. After that the party, by law, must select a new leader through a convention vote. Grandinetti will become the party's interim leader until that time.
The timely announcement was made just two and a half weeks after the Federation of Progressive Democrats selected Archetenia Nera, a political scientist of Ariddian and Pacitalian lineage, as their new leader at their convention in Rado di Fungiati on 10th December. The merger also occurred four days before the dissolution of the far-right Partia di Traditionale, which said, after a disastrous showing in the October 2006 elections, that it would fold effective midnight on 1st January, 2007.
Earning only five seats in the lower house, the Constazione Ampoliticato Federali, and coming up with absolutely nothing in the Senatoro, PdT leader Marco Quirinamo announced that the elected MPPs were "free to consult their constituents on the best course of action, whether it be sitting as independents, or joining another caucus". However, three MPPs who have tried to join the FPD have been rejected, because it would shift the power balance to the centre-right coalition partners and force a parliamentary vote on the prime minister and his cabinet despite high public approval ratings.
Professora Liz Cunningham, a senior political scientist at the University of Mandragora, noted the merger, combined with the dissolution of the Partia di Traditionale, "marks the end of extremist or far-left and far-right politics in Pacitalia.
"These developments show a move toward consensus, toward multipartisan partnership, and most of all, toward progressive thought," she said.
The Workers' Cooperative Alliance of Pacitalia re-entered the federal political arena in late 2005, after a 19-year hiatus, in which it was inactive due to its absorption by the PSC. However, when the PSC began to move towards the centre under Fernando Chiovitti, the Pacitalian Social Coalition MPP Grandinetti, once a senior advisor within the old WCAP, decided the time was right for a split, and defected on his own into the new incarnation of his party. It surged forward over the next few months, earning a respectable share of the vote in the subsequent January 2006 polls, but really earned its keep in the October vote, taking a remarkable seven seats in the CAF, though still unable to grab a seat in the Senatoro. It is expected that the WCAP contingent of the new party will take the leading role in shaping the direction of the Egalitarians.
The Communists were referred to as "a bunch of jokes" in federal political circles, and were never really a vocal or noticeable force in national-level politics, until Lemvi Megescu became first-secretary and leader of the party in 1975. Over nearly 22 years in the position, he has at least managed to bring some credibility to his party, though it has been through a movement into supersocialism rather than traditional communism. His party experienced its strongest times during the first half of this decade, but when former prime minister Dr Timotaio Ell's government successfully pushed through legislation prohibiting foreign donations to political parties, the Communists were left without funding from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and fell into a state of near-inactivity because of its inability to collect campaign funds for its war chest.
The Anarchists are the newest of the three political parties, having been formed just a few weeks before the January elections. However, the party's leader, Vera Campagnolo, managed to score one seat in that vote, and followed it up by retaining her seat in the October vote. Both Megescu and Campagnolo say the merger will be "good for their ideologies and parties", with Campagnolo wisely remarking that there is "no room to grow" for either party in upcoming elections.
Regardless of the merger, Megescu, who turns 84 on 9th January, was set to retire in early 2007, with either Soviet expatriate and senior Communists advisor Igor Sapanovsky or second-secretary Giorgio Cattacano set to succeed him as first-secretary and leader. However, it appears with the merger either man will have to settle for a senior role in the new party or commit to running in the Egalitarians leadership convention, which would likely take place late next month or early in February.
The combined Egalitarians will have ten seats in the lower house, but none of the three parties hold a seat in the Senatoro, meaning that the new party will still have "secondary entity" status. Four parties, the FPD, the PSC, the centrist Non-Partisan Association and the Greens, currently hold "primary entity" status in Timiocato.
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Workers' Cooperative Alliance leader Jávier Grandinetti (pictured) joined
with Anarchists leader Vera Campagnolo and Communist Party first-
secretary and leader Lemvi Megescu to announce that their three
parties would merge to form a single party known as the "Egalitarians".
The new party intends to move slightly right to a more moderate
socialist position to fill the gap left by the governing PSC, which
moved closer to the centre to become more appealing to voters.
Communists, anarchists and the proletariat no more
Three parties join forces in a bid to stop splitting the left-wing vote
Nezo Iera
Senior political correspondent, Timiocato
Three of Pacitalia's left-wing parties have joined forces in a concerted attempt to stop splitting the vote on their half of the political spectrum, and to try and limit the centre-right Federation of Progressive Democrats' chances of returning to power in an election expected in the spring of next year.
Jávier Grandinetti, the leader of the Workers' Cooperative Alliance of Pacitalia, joined Communist Party first-secretary/leader Lemvi Megescu and Anarchists leader Vera Campagnolo at a press conference announcing the merger. They said the party will follow "limited amounts of existing beliefs and values", instead switching to a more generally welfarist, egalitarian party.
The new "Egalitarians" party will officially ratify its charter and announce its colour scheme at a preliminary session in Antiguabanta, Meritate, next month, meaning that the three parties remain in their current status and existence in the two parliamentary chambers for at least two or three weeks longer. After that the party, by law, must select a new leader through a convention vote. Grandinetti will become the party's interim leader until that time.
The timely announcement was made just two and a half weeks after the Federation of Progressive Democrats selected Archetenia Nera, a political scientist of Ariddian and Pacitalian lineage, as their new leader at their convention in Rado di Fungiati on 10th December. The merger also occurred four days before the dissolution of the far-right Partia di Traditionale, which said, after a disastrous showing in the October 2006 elections, that it would fold effective midnight on 1st January, 2007.
Earning only five seats in the lower house, the Constazione Ampoliticato Federali, and coming up with absolutely nothing in the Senatoro, PdT leader Marco Quirinamo announced that the elected MPPs were "free to consult their constituents on the best course of action, whether it be sitting as independents, or joining another caucus". However, three MPPs who have tried to join the FPD have been rejected, because it would shift the power balance to the centre-right coalition partners and force a parliamentary vote on the prime minister and his cabinet despite high public approval ratings.
Professora Liz Cunningham, a senior political scientist at the University of Mandragora, noted the merger, combined with the dissolution of the Partia di Traditionale, "marks the end of extremist or far-left and far-right politics in Pacitalia.
"These developments show a move toward consensus, toward multipartisan partnership, and most of all, toward progressive thought," she said.
The Workers' Cooperative Alliance of Pacitalia re-entered the federal political arena in late 2005, after a 19-year hiatus, in which it was inactive due to its absorption by the PSC. However, when the PSC began to move towards the centre under Fernando Chiovitti, the Pacitalian Social Coalition MPP Grandinetti, once a senior advisor within the old WCAP, decided the time was right for a split, and defected on his own into the new incarnation of his party. It surged forward over the next few months, earning a respectable share of the vote in the subsequent January 2006 polls, but really earned its keep in the October vote, taking a remarkable seven seats in the CAF, though still unable to grab a seat in the Senatoro. It is expected that the WCAP contingent of the new party will take the leading role in shaping the direction of the Egalitarians.
The Communists were referred to as "a bunch of jokes" in federal political circles, and were never really a vocal or noticeable force in national-level politics, until Lemvi Megescu became first-secretary and leader of the party in 1975. Over nearly 22 years in the position, he has at least managed to bring some credibility to his party, though it has been through a movement into supersocialism rather than traditional communism. His party experienced its strongest times during the first half of this decade, but when former prime minister Dr Timotaio Ell's government successfully pushed through legislation prohibiting foreign donations to political parties, the Communists were left without funding from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and fell into a state of near-inactivity because of its inability to collect campaign funds for its war chest.
The Anarchists are the newest of the three political parties, having been formed just a few weeks before the January elections. However, the party's leader, Vera Campagnolo, managed to score one seat in that vote, and followed it up by retaining her seat in the October vote. Both Megescu and Campagnolo say the merger will be "good for their ideologies and parties", with Campagnolo wisely remarking that there is "no room to grow" for either party in upcoming elections.
Regardless of the merger, Megescu, who turns 84 on 9th January, was set to retire in early 2007, with either Soviet expatriate and senior Communists advisor Igor Sapanovsky or second-secretary Giorgio Cattacano set to succeed him as first-secretary and leader. However, it appears with the merger either man will have to settle for a senior role in the new party or commit to running in the Egalitarians leadership convention, which would likely take place late next month or early in February.
The combined Egalitarians will have ten seats in the lower house, but none of the three parties hold a seat in the Senatoro, meaning that the new party will still have "secondary entity" status. Four parties, the FPD, the PSC, the centrist Non-Partisan Association and the Greens, currently hold "primary entity" status in Timiocato.