04-24-2023, 08:33 PM
April 20, 2023
National Assembly, Hwagang, Haesan:
As soon as the gavel dropped on the vote of no-confidence and the parliamentarian read out the lopsided result, a wave of nervous energy swept over the deputies. Just 15 months after they took their oaths of office, they were back into the campaigning circus. For their political futures, these first two weeks were the most crucial, an intense internal political networking battle to see who can rise the highest on their party's regional deputy lists. The tension was palpable as the deputies huddled in their party groups, as they made tentative convention plans and frantically snapped up plane tickets back to their home provinces to start the frenetic campaign season, in what media pundits were already labeling the "most unpredictable election in Haesanite history."
For the Conservative Party and Liberty!, the two core constituents of the governing coalition, Jan van Deventer's fiery speech split their parties in twain. Their struggle would be to determine just how exactly they planned to reform and reunite their parties after the chaotic fallout. Perhaps that lofty task was too much to ask of junior deputies who entered the National Assembly on a miraculous tidal wave of popular anger at the "corrupt elites" just a year ago, but they would be forced to undertake it nonetheless.
As for Jan himself, the ousted PM was already headed home to his seaside estate in Ryujang. The man whose public tantrum started this fiasco was set to decamp and determine his political future. However, as he landed in Gyeongseong, his face was perfectly still and calm, as if nothing was amiss. Perhaps the outburst was more calculated than it initially seemed.
In Haesan, they say that the moon will guide you home. However, that night, a new moon rose over Haesan, and in the countryside the brilliant sunset transformed into an uneasy pitch black. The headlights of Jan's sedan cut through the inky darkness on the winding coastal roads, charting a murky path into the unknown.
April 24, 2023
Anfa L'Cite Grande en Foi:
The Parti du Nord had always been seen as a minor regional party. This is because, well, they always were a minor regional party. French language education isn't really an issue that pulls in votes in Suyang, or Hanyeong, or Namhae, all of the southern, densely populated manufacturing regions that are needed to win an election in Haesan with any significant deputy count. It makes intuitive sense that the Party of the North wasn't ever going to win seats anywhere other than the north, but now they have a vision and a desperate tactic to try and break through.
Martin Saint Fleur was an up and comer in Anfan politics, and now at 39 years of age he has been nominated as the party leader without much resistance. He is Arrivee through and through, and the old guard loved the zeal with which he pursued their traditional goal of federalizing the Haesanite government. However, Martin also had a clever little idea, to turn his Arrivee heritage into a ploy for Arrivee unity, with those other long-despised Arrivee just across the Iron Mountains. In just two years, while federalism and French language issues never stopped being important, economic integration with Laeral had become the party's primary issue. If there was anything to get southern manufacturers to vote for a northern party who does not represent them in the slightest, it might be by convincing their pocketbooks.
There are some within the party, especially those who Saint Fleur had trampled on his way to the top, who believe the party was losing its way. However, deep down, they know better messaging means more votes, which means more political security. If that fact alone isn't enough to convince them, then maybe the undercover Laeralite diplomats in the stands with their Ministry of Foreign Affairs-backed bank accounts can do the trick.
The party announced its unprecedented full slate of 395 deputies, many running outside of their home districts, and most of whom will assuredly lose, to a fanfare of traditional colonial French Haesanite marches and a cascade of pink and white balloons. With their convention out of the way early, most of the candidates will start a fierce rebranding campaign with the support of a party apparatus flush with Laeralian cash to try and do the unthinkable: have the Party of the North win outside of the north.
National Assembly, Hwagang, Haesan:
As soon as the gavel dropped on the vote of no-confidence and the parliamentarian read out the lopsided result, a wave of nervous energy swept over the deputies. Just 15 months after they took their oaths of office, they were back into the campaigning circus. For their political futures, these first two weeks were the most crucial, an intense internal political networking battle to see who can rise the highest on their party's regional deputy lists. The tension was palpable as the deputies huddled in their party groups, as they made tentative convention plans and frantically snapped up plane tickets back to their home provinces to start the frenetic campaign season, in what media pundits were already labeling the "most unpredictable election in Haesanite history."
For the Conservative Party and Liberty!, the two core constituents of the governing coalition, Jan van Deventer's fiery speech split their parties in twain. Their struggle would be to determine just how exactly they planned to reform and reunite their parties after the chaotic fallout. Perhaps that lofty task was too much to ask of junior deputies who entered the National Assembly on a miraculous tidal wave of popular anger at the "corrupt elites" just a year ago, but they would be forced to undertake it nonetheless.
As for Jan himself, the ousted PM was already headed home to his seaside estate in Ryujang. The man whose public tantrum started this fiasco was set to decamp and determine his political future. However, as he landed in Gyeongseong, his face was perfectly still and calm, as if nothing was amiss. Perhaps the outburst was more calculated than it initially seemed.
In Haesan, they say that the moon will guide you home. However, that night, a new moon rose over Haesan, and in the countryside the brilliant sunset transformed into an uneasy pitch black. The headlights of Jan's sedan cut through the inky darkness on the winding coastal roads, charting a murky path into the unknown.
April 24, 2023
Anfa L'Cite Grande en Foi:
The Parti du Nord had always been seen as a minor regional party. This is because, well, they always were a minor regional party. French language education isn't really an issue that pulls in votes in Suyang, or Hanyeong, or Namhae, all of the southern, densely populated manufacturing regions that are needed to win an election in Haesan with any significant deputy count. It makes intuitive sense that the Party of the North wasn't ever going to win seats anywhere other than the north, but now they have a vision and a desperate tactic to try and break through.
Martin Saint Fleur was an up and comer in Anfan politics, and now at 39 years of age he has been nominated as the party leader without much resistance. He is Arrivee through and through, and the old guard loved the zeal with which he pursued their traditional goal of federalizing the Haesanite government. However, Martin also had a clever little idea, to turn his Arrivee heritage into a ploy for Arrivee unity, with those other long-despised Arrivee just across the Iron Mountains. In just two years, while federalism and French language issues never stopped being important, economic integration with Laeral had become the party's primary issue. If there was anything to get southern manufacturers to vote for a northern party who does not represent them in the slightest, it might be by convincing their pocketbooks.
There are some within the party, especially those who Saint Fleur had trampled on his way to the top, who believe the party was losing its way. However, deep down, they know better messaging means more votes, which means more political security. If that fact alone isn't enough to convince them, then maybe the undercover Laeralite diplomats in the stands with their Ministry of Foreign Affairs-backed bank accounts can do the trick.
The party announced its unprecedented full slate of 395 deputies, many running outside of their home districts, and most of whom will assuredly lose, to a fanfare of traditional colonial French Haesanite marches and a cascade of pink and white balloons. With their convention out of the way early, most of the candidates will start a fierce rebranding campaign with the support of a party apparatus flush with Laeralian cash to try and do the unthinkable: have the Party of the North win outside of the north.