NationStates Jolt Archive

Ubec City- Federation of Visayan Peoples President Ferdinand Boncayao signed Presidential Decree 584 permitting the formation of opposition political parties and ending the decades-old monopoly of political power by the ruling National Democratic Party. Two parties were immediately given recognition and allowed to compete with the National Democrats in upcoming parliamentary elections:

Socialist Coatlition - a broad leftist alliance prominent among urban industrial workers and landless peasants. Some members have been accused of being involved with the outlawed Communist Party of the Visayas.

Progressive Party - a centrist party with a wide appeal but drawing most of its strength in the ethnically Olinggo Western Visayas including Olinggo province and Western Sorgen Province. Its support comes mostly from Olinggos, and the middle class of professionals, landholding farmers, small businessmen and intellectuals.

The National Democrats maintain their base among industrialists and big landlords. It is strong in the capital of Ubec City and Ubec and Lohob provinces. the very influential Church of the Visayas also supports its conservative policies.

OOC:

Comments would be very welcome... :D

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Greetings!

The United Kingdom of Brutland and Norden welcomes this positive change in the Federation of Visayan Peoples. Though it is not in the Kingdom's policy to meddle in other nation's affairs, we encourage this furtherment of democracy. We hope that this upcoming election be fair and free, and we we wish good luck to the Visayan Peoples.

Thank you.
Anna Patrizia B. Micarelli
Ambassadoro Nordèbrutelliense Reala te la Federesso di Populu Visaíense
Royal Nord-Brutlandese Ambassador to the Federation of Visayan Peoples

Election Update

Recent polls show the Socialists with a slight lead of 40% of the vote while the Progressives and National Democrats have 30% each. Socialist Party Chairman Mong Sungcal thanked supporters in a campaign rally with members of the Trade Union Congress of Visayas (TUCV). "The victory of the laboring masses is at hand," he said amid chants of "Chairman Mong!," "Soon we will remake our society in a peaceful revolution." Should the Socialists gain a majority, Chairman Mong will likely serve as Head of Government by being elected the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Federation Council. The Socialists have pledged to better working conditions for industrial workers and a sweeping land reform program for landless peasants in the plantations of Sorgen and Lohob provinces and an ambitious social welfare program financed by taxes on the rich.

In a press conference, the National Democrats dismissed these celebrations as "premature." "The polls are far from over and the three parties are very close," said Secretary-General Redford Cresto. Cresto was confident that the endorsement by Bernard Cardinal Singson, Archbishop of Ubec and Primate of Visayas, would help his party seize the initiative. Their conservative stands on contraception and sex education attracts the Church's support while the Socialists' secularist bent and alleged ties to the Communists alienates the clergy. the National Democrats have also cast themselves as the only party capable of maintaining Visayas' astounding economic growth while the Socialists would doom the economy with their "populism."

The Progressives refused to comment on the Socialists' victory rally or the National Democrats' response. "What the other parties do is none of our concern. We have an election to win," replied Party Spokesman Vincent Lim. The centrist Progressives have called for a third way where economic growth is not hampered by measures for a more equal distribution of wealth. To do this the Progressives propose breaking up trusts and privatizing most state-owned corporations to encourage competition. But much of their campaign deals with improving the Federations political institutions by combating corruption, nepotism and patronage politics that became widespread under the one-party system.

Meanwhile, the Brutlandese Embassy welcomed the end of one-party rule. Ambassador Anna Patrizia Micarelli said the Kingdom "encourages the furtherment of democracy" and hoped that the elections would be "free and fair." Pres. Boncayao received the United Kingdoms statement with pleasure saying, "It is good that our neighbors think highly of our democratic reforms. With their help we shall take our place among the free nations of the world. We would also welcome what other countries wish to say. and any help they may provide in the form of election inspectors an the like to ensure that the polls are free and fair."

Fearing a leftist victory in the polls, right-wing army officers seized control of the capital and halted the canvass of votes. They installed as President Marlowe Mancenido who promptly invalidated the previous election and outlawed the Socialists sending them underground. Their seats were filled in a carefully orchestrated special election that left the National Democrats with an overwhelming majority.

OOC: :D Back to One-party rule..

From:Ministry Of International Affairs of UPRP
To:Illegal Government of Visayan Peoples

Give back power to elected party.
If you don't do that in one week we will strike and crush you.
Until that time we putting embargo on you.
Also you can delegalize all parties and change rule to total democratic as ours.

To: UPRP
From the LEGAL DE JURE Government of Visayan Peoples

Sorry, No.. :lol:

From:Ministry of International Affairs of UPRP
To:Usurpers who called themselves "Government of Visayan Peoples"

You'r power is illegal because you throw legal elected authorities to prison.
Only what we can do it is being working to your disadvantage at the simultaneous support for underground structures of the opposition.

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From:Ministry of International Affairs of UPRP
Secret Commision of Special Actions at Great Council of UPRP
To:Visayan Opposition

With great sorrow we received a message about a coup d'état in your country. Therefore we are ready to give you all help - Financial, material whether finally if a need will occur military. Moreover we want to offer you the full right to the political asylum on the area of our state and the possibility of forming the government in exile. We want to aid 150000 OCU, as well as trainings of the political and armed fight. There is a close fate of every oppressed nation for us.
Also we want to encourage you to the development of the underground state and giving the resistance to the authority of usurpers.
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