Aleard
13-03-2007, 20:01
Aleardian Times Politics Insert
Calls For Change
One of the most heated debates in the Aleardian political arena today is that of fairness. Opposition parties find themselves overrun by the main party, not being able to find their feet in the assembly; voters turn out and vote out of habit rather than what they want; and politicians are restricted in what they can say and what they can do.
Leader of the assembly, Mr. Riley Wainult, called for restrictions on MPs to be lifted. Furthermore, he said that the President should turn up to assembly more often to give further chance for questioning of his policy from other politicians. Debates are often found to be one sided and Mr. Wainult says that he finds it hard on occasion to "even up the playing field". For this reason, he feels that people are turned off from voting.
Amidst everything that is going on in Aleardian politics today, with an upcoming election and potential military intervention in a neighbouring nation, coupled with education problems and debates over fairness of how wealth is divided, politicians are still finding time to quarell over simplistic issues that can be sorted without mass debate.
This is a changing time in the assembly which has a lot of politicians on the edge of their seats, their opinions divided.
"Crisis Zone. Code twenty-two-zero. Five-nine-three. Riots."
"Deploying troops to area."
"Riot police deployed. Engaging protesters. Violence noted."
The APCs rolled around the corner of the road outside the assembly building. The government and politicians were trapped inside the building, helpless, police engaged with the frontline protesters in full riot gear. Troops climbed out of the vehicles, in an attempt to disperse the crowd, firing bullets into the air and shouting threats at them.
It was clear what they wanted. More political freedoms. Aleard was a democracy with nothing but democratic ideals. In other words, the system was unfair.
President Thomson appeared on television to the people not outside the assembly. The nation was in crisis. He had asked three times to be let outside to talk to some protesters, but he was not allowed outside by the authorities. A stone came crashing through the barrier colliding with an officer on horseback, knocking him off the horse, a wound across his head.
The police advanced.
Calls For Change
One of the most heated debates in the Aleardian political arena today is that of fairness. Opposition parties find themselves overrun by the main party, not being able to find their feet in the assembly; voters turn out and vote out of habit rather than what they want; and politicians are restricted in what they can say and what they can do.
Leader of the assembly, Mr. Riley Wainult, called for restrictions on MPs to be lifted. Furthermore, he said that the President should turn up to assembly more often to give further chance for questioning of his policy from other politicians. Debates are often found to be one sided and Mr. Wainult says that he finds it hard on occasion to "even up the playing field". For this reason, he feels that people are turned off from voting.
Amidst everything that is going on in Aleardian politics today, with an upcoming election and potential military intervention in a neighbouring nation, coupled with education problems and debates over fairness of how wealth is divided, politicians are still finding time to quarell over simplistic issues that can be sorted without mass debate.
This is a changing time in the assembly which has a lot of politicians on the edge of their seats, their opinions divided.
"Crisis Zone. Code twenty-two-zero. Five-nine-three. Riots."
"Deploying troops to area."
"Riot police deployed. Engaging protesters. Violence noted."
The APCs rolled around the corner of the road outside the assembly building. The government and politicians were trapped inside the building, helpless, police engaged with the frontline protesters in full riot gear. Troops climbed out of the vehicles, in an attempt to disperse the crowd, firing bullets into the air and shouting threats at them.
It was clear what they wanted. More political freedoms. Aleard was a democracy with nothing but democratic ideals. In other words, the system was unfair.
President Thomson appeared on television to the people not outside the assembly. The nation was in crisis. He had asked three times to be let outside to talk to some protesters, but he was not allowed outside by the authorities. A stone came crashing through the barrier colliding with an officer on horseback, knocking him off the horse, a wound across his head.
The police advanced.