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Shannon Jones was the Prime Minister of Arandea. Popularity with her and the Arandean Labour Party had been declining.

She had been leading her small island nation since coming to power in the 2005 election

She was currently in a meeting with the Arandean president (who really is just a figure head)

"Can I count on your support President Larken?" she asked

"Ofcourse. I dont see anything wrong with the country but should you lose the election I want to count on your party to re-elect me as president after the election" he said, He was a well built man with a square face in his late 60's While Shannon Jones was just 48

The labour Party president was also there

"We are seriously going to have to work hard to win this election" said Alex Boreman, Party President who was a 60 yearold socialist

"The Biggest threat comes from the Arandean Right Party and Daniel Bars" said President Larken

"Well the announcement has to come. Campaigning will begin" said Shannon
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Shannon was now in a film studio in Hellington the capital city.

People were applying makeup to her face and within minutes the camera's were Rolling

"Every 3 years the people of our good nation go to the polls to express ourselves. Every three years the people elect thier government. In September 25th 2005 I was elected to lead Arandea. I hope I have done a good enough job to be elected to a second term. It is with great excitment that I announce the Election to take place on October 10th 2008. Let the campaigning begin!" The Screen then switched to a list of all Registered parties to participate in the next election

................................REGISTERED PARTIES TO TAKE PLACE IN THE ELECTION...................

Arandean Right Party
Party President: Justin Williams. A 67 yearold conservative who has been Party President for over 10 years
Party Leader: Daniel Bars. A 56 yearold conservative hoping to become the next Prime Minister in the upcoming elections
Party Deputy: Samuel Lambert a 40 yearold specializing in economics and Daniels second in command

Green Party
Party President: Simon Dole. a 41 yearold environmentalist and party founded. served as party president for over 10 years
Party Leader: Jenny Marks. a 53 yearold vegetarian and environmentalist. she hopes to get her party enough votes to stay in Parliament
Party Deputy: Bob Dickson. a new party member but trusted friend or Jenny Marks and fellow vegetarian

Arandean Patriotic Party
Party President: Harrold Shanks. a 72 yearold party founder has served as party president for over 20 years
Party Leader: Liam Shaw. a 50 yearold nationalist and supporter of far right wing ideology
Party Deputy: Justin Clark. a 60 yearold right winger and second in command after Liam Shaw

Arandean Peoples Party
Party President: Hannah Frame. a 58 yearold who shares left wing ideology. served for over 5 years
Party Leader: Cameron Stymes. A 48 yearold who believes in democracy and socialism.
Party Deputy: Mitchell Brooks. a 47 yearold. who is center left

Arandean Party Of Labour
Party President: Alex Boreman. 60 years old. an old socialist
Party Leader: Shannon Jones. a 48 yearold who is currently in Power as prime minister. she hopes to win a second term in office in the upcoming elections
Party Deputy: David Cullen. has a degree in economics. He has been favouring free market economics despite his parties ideological line

Arandean Socialist Unity Party
Party President: Timothy Sims. 78 yearold communist and party founded. served as party president for over 30 years
Party Leader: Mathew Toms. a 60 yearold socialist who hopes to reform the system by useing the system
Party Deputy: Gavin Rowlings. a 56 yearold communist. quite hardline compared to the rest of the party

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Party members and activists began sticking up Billboards

Jenny Marks, Environmentalist, Vegetarian and Green Party Leader was walking around her local neighborhood handing out leaflets
He slid them in each letterbox

3 other people were handing out the leaflets with her
Ofcourse the leaflets were made from 100% recycled paper

Cameron Stymes the socialist leader of the Arandean Peoples Party was currently meeting with some workers in a factory

"I think us, the working people of Arandea have what it takes to take these guys out at the election and then we can work for the people. The problem with the current party in power is that they really dont care for the people anymore instead only worry about staying in power. Change is healthy which is why you should elect a party that will properly represent the people" said Cameron the workers all applauded and after Cameron took questions from them and had a political debate with them

Meanwhile the Arandean patriotic party (The Most fanatical party and has been labled "Fascist" was going through its own campaign sticking up sign boards and billboards in its local neighborhood and on highways

The Billboards all had "We need a right change" with the face of Party leader Liam Shaw

Within the coming weeks each party woulda announce thier stand and thier policy towards issues

(OOC: Watch this space for DECISION 08! and lead up to the October 10th Election. Please participate in the Poll to see who is a likely candidate. The Vote is not the real vote its a poll conducted by Telephone and TV organizations)

[OOC: Why are all of the politicians so old?]

Thead with the poll (sorry made a mistake and forgot to add one in, in this thread)
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=565974

(OOC: Becuase the youth of Arandea are really politically Apathetic. a January poll showed 45% of people didnt realize there was an election this year :P hahha I dunno and 40'ish isnt old is it??? hahha)

Party Stance

Arandean Labour Party

#1 Immigration: Currently the Labour party has an open doors policy and immigrants from all countries are welcome and plan to continue this policy

#2 Foriegn Relations: Currently has a non-aligned and nuetral policy and does not lean towards any powerbloc and plan to continue this policy of nuetrality

#3 giving aide: Has a poor record of giving aide to nations and plans not to increase foriegn aide to other countries

#4 Economic policy: With a very competitive freemarket they plan to maintain this while still keeping SOE (State Owned Enterprise) and has plans to nationalize the railways

#5 Transportation: Expand on public transport and build more roads as well as reconstruct old roads and introduce Toll booths along some roads

#6 Education: Education will continue to focus on the nations history and have plans to make school compulsory up to the age of 18 (currently its compulsory only to 15)

#7 Human Rights: The Labour party fully supports the declaration of human rights and stays true to them in Arandea and has plans to intoduce equality to the homosexual population in Arandea (which has poor history with gay rights)

#8 Stance on Nations with poor human rights (Countries with W.A ranking of psychotic dictatorship or some other poor ranking): Declares it will take a tougher line and will mention it whenever it meets with a representative of that country as well as possable travel bans to that country

#9 The Environment: The Labour Party wants to please the Green Party (Becuause if it doesnt get enough votes it might depend on the Green Party to form a co-alition government with the Greens) So Labour wants to do more in the way of the environment

Party Stance

Arandean Right Party

#1 Immigration: Has concerns for the large number of immigrants and plans to introduce a restriction allowing only 30,000 in a year at most

#2 Foriegn Relations: Wants to align with right wing powers and get closer relations with a like minded government

#3 Giving Aide: Will keep a policy of stingyness but may raise aide to friendly nations with poorer economies

#4 Economic Policy: Wants to invest in larger companies and allow a more free market as well as keeping the railways private and sell off some SOE's

#5 Transportation: Wants to expand on public transport and even wants to introduce "Gold Cards" to pensioners which will allow them free public transport

#6 Education: Wants to introduce a new school ciriculum. teach pro business ideas with new business management subject and expand the school day from 6 hours to 6 hours and 30 minutes

#7 Human Rights: Wants to keep Arandea the way it is which mean banning homosexuality for fear of a $100 fine and one week in jail. Thats the biggest human rights issue. they also want to reduce funding for special needs citizens and keeping Abortion banned

#8 Stance on nations with poor human rights: They want a strict and tough line on those nations including possably economic sanctions and travel bans

#9 The Environment: The Right Party wants to keep economic growth even at the expense on the environment. they believe "purposly holding back the economy for the sake of trees is Illogical"

Party Sance

Arandean Peoples Party

#1 Immigration: Thinks the large number of immigrants is quite alarming. They dont want to place restrictions but they want to allow a program to integrate new immigranted into the community and Arandean Culture. It will mean All immigrants will have to take a weekly class in English and Arandean Culture so they can appreciate thier new host nation

#2 Foriegn Relations: They like the nuetrality policy but was to remain open minded about alliances especially with left wing nations

#3 Giving Aide: Will continue the policy of holding back aide. But they have announce they will donate lump sums of money to friendly and embryonic socialist and progressive nations

#4 Economic Policy: Want to nationalize the water works, power companies and railways. start up some new SOE and state owned companies but also keep the freemarket in thier first term if elected

#5 Transportation: Want to expand on public transportation and through government funding make it cheaper. They also want to discourage private ownership of cars and add restrictions to how many cars a family can have

#6 Education: Want to introduce a socialist inspired ciriculum. make education compulsory up to the age of 17 and expand sports and exercise in school

#7 Human Rights: Expand on human rights in the country and allow equality to all meaning legalizing homosexuality and recognizing same sex relationships. Equality is the main word. They are also open to legalizing abortion

#8 Stance on nations with poor human rights: The Peoples Party believe in not interfering in other nations internal affairs but also say they want to encourage those nations with incentives to loosen up

#9 Environment: Believe there is a problem and the economy and living standards MUST be balanced with preserving the environment and help combat global warming

Party Stance

Arandean Socialist Unity Party

#1 Immigration: They want restrictions put in place to 35,000 immigrants per year and also ban immigrants that want to participate in expanding the freemarket and big, private business

#2 Foriegn Relations: Will definatly want to align with left wing powers and become more involved in the world stage

#3 Giving Aide: will be generous in giving aide to developing socialist nations

#4 Economic Policy: Want to nationalize at least 45% of the economy on thier first term and introduce anti business laws

#5 Transportation: Introduce "Carless Days" to combat road congestion and make public transport free

#6 Education: Introduce a ciriculum from a socialist nation with some modifications to appeal to Arandeans

#7 Human Rights: They believe in legalizing homosexuality but that is it. They also want to change the constitution more along socialist lines and possably expanding the powers of the Prime Minister if they get in power

#8 Stance on nations with poor human rights: They believe in non interference and will not bring up the issue at all

#9 Environment: Has plans to introduce "Green Spots" and increase number of parks and also wants "Car Less Days" to help carbon emissions

Party Stance

Arandean Green Party

#1 Immigration: Keep the immigration police of Open Doors

#2 Foriegn Relations: Wants to remain nuetral but also wants to do more on the international stage

#3 Giving Aide: They want a surge in foriegn aide to developing countries as they say our current ammount of donations is "Appaling"

#4 Economic Policy: Introduce ways to balance the economy with the environment and the environment must always come first

#5 Transportation: They want to ease out the use to private cars all together and make public transport free

#6 Education: Keep the school ciriculum as it is but ban fatty and sugary foods from school canteen and only allow healthy foods. They also want exercise in school and P.E expanded upon

#7 Human Rights: Want full human rights and is the only party wanting to legalize Marajuana, bring full and equal rights to Same Sex couples even introducing civil unions

#8 Stance on nations with poor human rights: They want to condemn the nation if they ever meet with the representative and will bring up the issue in all meetings

#9 Environment: Is thier most key and important issue. They want to introduce very pro evnironment laws

Party Stance

Arandean Patriotic Party

#1 Immigration: They want to ban immigration and allow no immigrants at all. they also want tougher restrictions and barriers in place to stop Arandeans from leaving the country

#2 Foriegn Relations: They want to align with far right wing nations

#3 Giving Aide: They want to cut aide and put the moment diectly into the Arandean economy saying "We have problems at home that need dealing with first"

#4 Economic Policy: They want a mixture of state control and free market and nationalize essential industry

#5 Transportation: They intend to ban private cars all together but not in thier first term. and make public transport legal and expand it

#6 Education: Want to bring in healthy eating, more sports in schools and anit socialist education

#7 Human Rights: They want to add more CCTV camera's for nation security and allow in some anti terrorism laws and expand the powers of the state and prime minister

#8 Stance on Nations with poor human rights: Do not care and would not mention it

#9 Environment: Environment is last on thier list of priorities and have no plans for laws in place to help the environment

Officially three years is one term of government and so one elected governemnt cant serve one day over 3 years which is why on the 25th September 2008 the Speaker of the Parliament will officially close/dissolve parliament until after the elections when a new government is formed.

In the background Shannon Jones'Labour Party will still be running the country but they cant make any sudden or big changes or introduce new laws.

There are only 7 days left until Parliament is closed.

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Shannon was sitting next to her Party Deputy, David Cullen in the Parliament.

David stood to his feet.

"Arandean's have everything to lose in this election if it votes in the Right Party. Under them they want to privatise the economy 100%, this will cause inflation and unemployment. We are a healthy alternative.." David was cut in by Daniel Bar's the main opposition

"Well as a democracy the people will express what they really think of you in the elections and so far its not looking to good your even coming behind the Socialist Unity party...."

"Dont Assume too much. In politics things can change just in a heartbeat!" argued back Shannon

The debate had been going on like this for the last 2 weeks.

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The TV crews were preparing the studio for an upcoming debate and questioning with all the candidates in the election

The Daily updates of the Popularity poll was still underway and would continue right up to the October 5th Election \/
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=565974

Activists from all parties were also doing thier bit to campaign, handing out leaflets and sticking flyers in mailboxes. Billboards with the faces of each of the candidates were also going up all over the country

Qestion to party leaders: What is Democracy?

(OOC: Is that an ooc comment as a joke or something? you have critisism of Arandean democracy? haha)