05-27-2023, 02:00 AM
May 1, 2023
Hapyeol, Boeri
The administrative center of Boeri province is small, with only about 40,000 people, and despite being a 45 minute train ride from the capital, it feels like an alternate universe. There's nothing but grain fields for miles, well except for the nuclear reactors that power the country, that is. That was the true reason for Onwards Haesan! holding their convention in seemingly the middle of nowhere, as this was the home of their base: nuclear scientists.
It had always been a difficult balance for Onwards to divorce the pro-science agenda that defined the Lagarde years and is central to their platform with the problematic side of the man: censoring media, cracking down on opposing politicians, and most critically, losing everything in the Great War. However, Haesanite R&D is rapidly becoming one of the best in the world, and with high tech space and nuclear research centers being built in the Eastern plains, there is a real shot that the party could gain a real stranglehold on the eastern time zone.
The fact that their convention didn't get much press isn't too much of an issue, with their friends in the Novellan SDUP organizing a massive ad buy across the plains. Onwards Haesan! was mobilizing from a small, retrograde party into the primary advocate of Haesanite innovation.
May 2, 2023
Suyang, Suyang
The manufacturing workers in the Southern Coast have always been the voters to deliver elections in Haesan, and right now, they are fed up. The Liberty! government who they thought would represent them turned out to stab them in the back the moment they got in power. They were merely a tool, bounced around from party to party, praying they would get some form of real representation.
New Bargain has promised to be that representation. They had made the unprecedented move of nominating their whip, 28 year old Mireille Kim, as their PM candidate, who would easily be the youngest to hold the office in Haesan's history. In a nation where the average age in 29, playing to the youth vote is not a completely unreasonable strategy, and it was Mireille's sharp wit on the Chamber of Deputies floor that ultimately cued some of Jan van Deventer's worst admissions.
The party continued its historical pro-labor messaging, advocating for a minimum wage, better working conditions, and better pensions and welfare more generally. They're hoping that this year, with increased visibility and an exciting young figurehead, they can finally break through and enter government.
May 2, 2023
Suyang, Suyang
On the other side of the Suyang metroplex were a bunch of young challengers with designs to compete with New Bargain for the critical youth vote. Founded by a bunch of Suyang National University law students, for the first time in well over a decade, Haesan would have a genuine far left party. The Social Democratic Party of Haesan would be born anew.
The students petitioned for security forces, and the government, with Kim I-seul's blessing, graciously complied. They would show the world Haesan was a real democracy, and fringe parties would be respected as legitimate. There would be no repeat of the tragic massacre that happened in Yeocheon. They were prepared, not just physically for any attack, but mentally for the lambasting they knew would surely be coming from the hardliners. They did not care about those trifling matters when they carried their firm belief that Haesan needed a real left wing alternative, and that the legacy of Gramont could not continue to define Haesan too. In a way, wasn't fearing his ideology letting him still win? Their presence was surely a path to progress.
The party would only appear on the ballot in the Core Four of the southwest, but if they could even win one deputy, that would be a huge victory for progressives in Haesan. However, how much they would play spoiler to the other left leaning parties and hurt their chance at victory remained to be seen.
Hapyeol, Boeri
The administrative center of Boeri province is small, with only about 40,000 people, and despite being a 45 minute train ride from the capital, it feels like an alternate universe. There's nothing but grain fields for miles, well except for the nuclear reactors that power the country, that is. That was the true reason for Onwards Haesan! holding their convention in seemingly the middle of nowhere, as this was the home of their base: nuclear scientists.
It had always been a difficult balance for Onwards to divorce the pro-science agenda that defined the Lagarde years and is central to their platform with the problematic side of the man: censoring media, cracking down on opposing politicians, and most critically, losing everything in the Great War. However, Haesanite R&D is rapidly becoming one of the best in the world, and with high tech space and nuclear research centers being built in the Eastern plains, there is a real shot that the party could gain a real stranglehold on the eastern time zone.
The fact that their convention didn't get much press isn't too much of an issue, with their friends in the Novellan SDUP organizing a massive ad buy across the plains. Onwards Haesan! was mobilizing from a small, retrograde party into the primary advocate of Haesanite innovation.
May 2, 2023
Suyang, Suyang
The manufacturing workers in the Southern Coast have always been the voters to deliver elections in Haesan, and right now, they are fed up. The Liberty! government who they thought would represent them turned out to stab them in the back the moment they got in power. They were merely a tool, bounced around from party to party, praying they would get some form of real representation.
New Bargain has promised to be that representation. They had made the unprecedented move of nominating their whip, 28 year old Mireille Kim, as their PM candidate, who would easily be the youngest to hold the office in Haesan's history. In a nation where the average age in 29, playing to the youth vote is not a completely unreasonable strategy, and it was Mireille's sharp wit on the Chamber of Deputies floor that ultimately cued some of Jan van Deventer's worst admissions.
The party continued its historical pro-labor messaging, advocating for a minimum wage, better working conditions, and better pensions and welfare more generally. They're hoping that this year, with increased visibility and an exciting young figurehead, they can finally break through and enter government.
May 2, 2023
Suyang, Suyang
On the other side of the Suyang metroplex were a bunch of young challengers with designs to compete with New Bargain for the critical youth vote. Founded by a bunch of Suyang National University law students, for the first time in well over a decade, Haesan would have a genuine far left party. The Social Democratic Party of Haesan would be born anew.
The students petitioned for security forces, and the government, with Kim I-seul's blessing, graciously complied. They would show the world Haesan was a real democracy, and fringe parties would be respected as legitimate. There would be no repeat of the tragic massacre that happened in Yeocheon. They were prepared, not just physically for any attack, but mentally for the lambasting they knew would surely be coming from the hardliners. They did not care about those trifling matters when they carried their firm belief that Haesan needed a real left wing alternative, and that the legacy of Gramont could not continue to define Haesan too. In a way, wasn't fearing his ideology letting him still win? Their presence was surely a path to progress.
The party would only appear on the ballot in the Core Four of the southwest, but if they could even win one deputy, that would be a huge victory for progressives in Haesan. However, how much they would play spoiler to the other left leaning parties and hurt their chance at victory remained to be seen.