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From PNN.pc
6th January 2009

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New Green Party leader Gabrielo Brunate at the Bright Green Ideas
conference in Timiocato, Friday, 17th October, 2008. (Photo: APR)

Brunate to take the helm of the Pacitalian Greens
Young, charismatic and eloquent, the party's new leader is drawing comparisons to the archonate


Marco Bantafugra, Timiocato

Green party officials announced Tuesday that members of Pacitalia's third-largest political party have elected Gabrielo Brunate Bábila as their new party leader.

Mr Brunate, 31, the party's charismatic and outspoken praeconsul of peace and social justice — a position which is seen as the third-highest ranking portfolio in the Greens' shadow cabinet — will take over from current leader Neros Constantakis. Mr Constantakis had announced he was stepping aside in November and an online and telephone vote by rank and file Green party members took place on 29th and 30th December.

The results from the online portion of the balloting apparently encountered a technical glitch, delaying the release of the results, but party officials say the actual numbers remained intact and no re-vote is necessary. The Green party utilises telephone and internet voting to save paper and eliminate leadership conventions, which the party argues promotes air travel and produces unwanted carbon dioxide emissions.

Mr Brunate is widely viewed, especially within his own party, as an outspoken yet eloquent political figure who is young and charismatic. He is already drawing comparisons to Pacitalian archonate Dr Timothy Ell, who assumed the leadership of the Federation of Progressive Democrats in 1995 while still only 27 years old. Dr Ell led the FPD for a decade; he served as prime minister for nine and a half of those years. His ascent to what was then the highest political office in Pacitalia came eight months after winning the FPD leadership. Green party executives — and a large percentage of rank-and-file members — are convinced Mr Brunate could do comparably well in national politics.

The party employs preferential voting to elect its leader. Just over 91 percent of the party's 26.5 million members voted last week in the leadership contest. Mr Brunate won 15,517,329 first-choice votes, or 64.13 percent of the overall vote of 24,196,677. His closest competitor, current deputy party leader Franchessa Marconi, earned 6,770,230 first-choice votes, the equivalent of 27.98 percent. The remaining 7.89 percent of the first-choice vote was split between four other dark-horse candidates.

Though unnecessary — because Mr Brunate won a majority of first-choice votes in the contest — an overwhelming 19.35 million voters listed Mr Brunate as their second preference for leader, which, at the very least, endorses his decisive victory. Ms Marconi earned 4.4 million second-choice votes. Besides Mr Brunate and Ms Marconi, only Dina Georgioupoulos, a Green party activist and former MPP, listed herself on the second preference ballot.

The deputy leader said she will step down from her post but remain as a member in the Constazione, and congratulated her main opponent on such a clear win. The resignation does not preclude her from being named to a post within Mr Brunate's shadow cabinet.

"I want to thank him for his dedication and service to the Green Party," Ms Marconi said in a statement. "I do not in any way taste the bitterness of defeat in my mouth today. I stand before you pleased with the results and humbled by the endorsement I received from so many rank-and-file Greens. I believe we have elected an outstanding and devoted member of the party to lead us and I am confident he will deliver on what he has promised."

Mr Brunate released a video clip on the Green party's website thanking "the members of the party, from coast to coast to coast, throughout this great land of ours, for putting their trust in me, to lead the Green Party with compunction and competence in parliament, and lead us to victory in the next election [...] to vindicate the Green movement."

As he pledged throughout his leadership campaign, Mr Brunate promised to adhere to the ten key values (http://www.greens.org/values/) of the international green movement. However, in line with the party's "Green Book", he stressed his party will still strongly support ecocapitalism and the so-called "green collar" economy. As such, the Greens will continue to hover to the right of centre on the political spectrum.

Mr Brunate paid homage to outgoing leader Mr Constantakis.

"[Mr Constantakis] served as leader of our party for eleven years," Mr Brunate said. "In national politics that is a feat rarely attained by even the most blessed and talented of politicians, and I want to honour and pay tribute to his legacy as our party leader."

"In 1997," Mr Brunate noted, "Neros Constantakis took the reins of the Green Party and lifted it from its place on the distant fringes of the Pacitalian political sphere. He put us permanently at the forefront of politics in Pacitalia and the mainstream in Timiocato. His efforts bore fruit. For two years in the middle of this decade we were the second largest party in the Constazione. He served as leader of the opposition in parliament and represented both his party and Pacitalians on an exceptional level. His efforts led the Greens to success in local and regional elections. He has worked tirelessly for many, many years in support of, and to build up, the green movement in the Pacitalian Republic."

Political battles coming sharply into view

Mr Brunate's honeymoon will not last long — tomorrow he meets with Pacitalia's archonate, Dr Timothy Ell, and the prime minister and FPD leader, Archetenia Nera, to discuss whether or not parliament should be suspended or whether the Green Party will support the government and repopulate the Constazione. If Mr Brunate refuses to do so, Dr Ell will likely call a special national election for just the lower house of parliament, thrusting the new Green party leader into his first election campaign a mere 24 hours after his election.

The PSC and Greens have both been absent for the last two weeks in protest of the child pornography charges against former senior deputy prime minister Ştefan Radu-Ados.

The absence of nearly four hundred members of parliament effectively shut the legislature down on 22nd December and could still result in fresh elections for the lower house if Dr Ell declares the parliament void. The archonate released a statement in which he called parliament "dysfunctional". Last week he told his prime minister to get "all parties" back to the table to resume legislative process.

The archonate continues to refuse Pacitalian Social Coalition leader Fernando Chiovitti's request to form an alternate government with the support of the Greens, Socialists and Nationalist Conservatives. Mr Chiovitti has taken audience with the archonate three times since the PSC depopulated themselves from the lower house, and all three times has reportedly broached the idea of an alternate government.

Dr Ell expressed his intention that he would rather void parliament and call a new election for the 1,099 seats in the Constazione because "even with all parties endorsing a government led by Mr Chiovitti, the Federation of Progressive Democrats was given a mandate through a majority of seats and therefore have the express right to govern".

PSC executives, meanwhile, are accusing supporters of deputy PSC leader Diego Zuna of undermining Mr Chiovitti's efforts to form a PSC-led alternate government in the existing parliament. The emergence of two distinct camps comes despite both Mr Chiovitti and Mr Zuna saying they do not endorse or want to fuel the infighting plaguing Pacitalia's largest opposition party.

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Vote breakdown
First preference:
Gabrielo Brunate — 15,517,329* (64.13 percent)
Franchessa Marconi — 6,770,230 (27.98 percent)
Dina Georgioupoulos — 701,320 (2.9 percent)
Kuntena Berustegui — 462,918 (1.91 percent)
Alberto Redondare Nessa — 407,299 (1.68 percent)
Chimano Fragatta — 337,581 (1.4 percent)
Second preference:
Gabrielo Brunate — 19,349,887 (79.97 percent)
Franchessa Marconi — 4,403,315 (18.2 percent)
Dina Georgioupoulos — 443,475 (1.83 percent)

Persepolis Times



Pacitalian Green Party Changes Leader
Marxism's Green Cousin Looms over Pacitalia

The Green Movement, long known in educated circles across the world as a front for the ideas of Karl Marx and Paganism has, unbelievably, not merely survived in Pacitalia, but chosen a new leader to head the party. Mr. Gabrielo Brunate Bábila, a man who possesses great charisma, but appears to apply it to the wrong goals, has become head of the Green Party, which strangely, happens to be Pacitalia’s third largest, undoubtedly a worrying sign which may point to either control of the Pacitalian media by Communists, or worse, a large population of neo-pagans called Environmentalists which have become endemic to nearly all democracies of the West.

Mr. Brunate’s stances, while alleged to be right leaning by the democratic world’s press, are in fact far from it, and equally, a trained mind can see the dichotomy between his rhetoric and his goals. While he calls himself an eco-Capitalist, he suggests following the principles of the international green movement, itself, merely a front for the Communists and terrorists as proven multiple times by SAVAK investigations which provided the impetus for banning environmental organizations in the Shahdom.

Merely reading their goals is sufficient to draw such a conclusion, with the first being social justice, a call word in the partially socialist democracies of the West for Marxist-inspired programs designed to cause class warfare and economic stagnation which concentrates wealth in the hands of an all-powerful state. Equally, the Greens seek to institute feminism and force diversity and miscegenation upon the world, a move which, to be frank, is not only lacking in reason, but thoroughly dangerous examples of Communism.

While no real estimates are claimed by this publication on Mr. Brunate receiving power in the otherwise quite rationally run country of Pacitalia, the danger exists that if the spread of the Environmental pagan religion continues, he could see success, bringing another country into the fold of Marxism, merely with a green instead of a red banner. Such a development, of course, would be unfortunate, but is of course, unlikely, Pacitalia will, barring the loss of Dr. Ell’s supporters in any potential election, remain reasonably run.

As for the reaction of the Parthian government, the Vice-Foreign Minister, Shahriar Khordavi has simply commented that Parthia takes no stance on Pacitalia’s internal political affairs as long as no such stance is taken on Parthian affairs by their leaders, and even if the Greens were to win, Parthia would continue business as normal and strive for friendly relations.

Only time will tell, it could very well be that one of the few rationally run democracies of the West could fall to Socialism of the Green banner, once again, affirming the security our Shah provides us in consistency and freedom from the Red menace or Green plague.

-Zartosht Damghani, Persepolis Times