06-21-2008, 01:40 PM
In order to explain in-game why Saidercray hasn't done anything during the last months, and to give you all and me an idea of where the nation stands now, I have developped the following "small" internal political crisis.
August 2007: Parliamentary elections are clearly won by left-wing parties. The winner of the presidential elections, instead, is Michael Stevens, common candidate of conservatives and neoliberals, who won the relative majority against two left-wing candidates who split the left-wing votes. Defeated left-wing liberal PPJ candidate Melanie Wathers accuses the socialist SPS of being greedy for power since if they had denounced their party leader?s Fintosthane?s candidacy, Wathers would have clearly won against Stevens. The SPS insists upon its right to nominate an own candidate as a party which represents ? of the population. They instead accuse the PPJ of trying to reduce the role of the socialists in order to become the clearly dominant left-wing party.
September 2007: Election of the cabinet by the parliament. President Stevens can?t achieve the composition he hoped for due to his adherent parties? parliamentary minority. But due to the post-electoral discord, also PPJ and SPS can?t agree on a common compositon of the cabinet which they easily could have realized. After a turbulent election with many ballots, the cabinet is mixed of politicians from all six parties in parliament. A joint policy by the new government will never take place.
October 2007 ? April 2008: SPS and PPJ try to distinguish themselves from the other one and from the right-wing parties by sticking to their ideas and objecting to compromises. Conservative VCA and neoliberal LUSC stick together but become increasingly frustrated by their impotence in parliament. Hence all parties and ministers continuously try to use plebiscites as a means to impose their ideas which again increases the paralysis of the parliament and the president.
January 2008: In a new party program, the PPJ distances itself from socialism and speaks out for ?a coaction of state and market to use the powers of competition in a way which ensures that all people profit by it.?
April 2008: Communist hardliner Ron Glean becomes elected chairman of the SPS after previous chairwoman Fintosthane tried to end the chaos by coming to an agreement with the PPJ which would enable them to use the left-wing majority in parliament. Her opponents see this as chumming up with the PPJ and giving up socialist ideals. Fintosthane?s aherers critcise her opponents as ideologists. The SPS is inwardly split.
May / June 2008: Glean claims the role of the leader of all real left politicians and tries to back up this claim by a crucial vote against PPJ minister of internal affairs Corlton, one of the main masterminds of the PPJ?s new party program. In his speech before the vote, which he loses, Glean glorifies socialist one-party dictatorships. As a result, the pragmatic wing of the SPS around Fintosthane and the PPJ amalgate and form the Modern Left People?s Party (MLPP). Takero Yamaguchi, PPJ shooting-star with very good links to the pragmatic SPS members, becomes chairman, PPJ leader Melanie Wathers and ex SPS leader Angela Fintosthane will serve as his powerful deputies. The new party now holds 42% of the seats in parliament. Together with the two small parties, the environmentalist GDP and the immigrant party MPI, it gains the majority of the seats in parliament. The three parties re-elect wide parts of the cabinet, replacing all ministers from VCA, LUSC and the residuale SPS, which soon changes its name into CPS ? Communist Party of Saidercray. Finally, Saidercray has again a government which is somewhat capable of acting, though the cabinet and the president are politically antagonistic. To end also this situation, president, government and parliament agree to hold new elections already in July and to jointly elaborate a new election law which shall prevent another crisis like the one which has now ended.
June 2008: On a cross party conference together with president Stevens at Little Upper Carilton close to Dawsingham, the leaders of all parties in parliament and the president agreed on a radically new election law which shall first be put in practice in this year's elections. The new law will prolong the legislative period from 1 to 4 years to avoid that politicians ?govern half a year and than campaign half a year?, as described by Takero Yamaguchi, leader of the MLPP. Further, there will be introduced a four percent hurdle to enter into the parliament. And finally, the president will be elected in a second election round one week after the parliamentary election. By enabling citizens to take the parliamentary situation into account when electing the head of government, the risk that the president isn?t backed by a parliamentary majority shall be reduced.
August 2007: Parliamentary elections are clearly won by left-wing parties. The winner of the presidential elections, instead, is Michael Stevens, common candidate of conservatives and neoliberals, who won the relative majority against two left-wing candidates who split the left-wing votes. Defeated left-wing liberal PPJ candidate Melanie Wathers accuses the socialist SPS of being greedy for power since if they had denounced their party leader?s Fintosthane?s candidacy, Wathers would have clearly won against Stevens. The SPS insists upon its right to nominate an own candidate as a party which represents ? of the population. They instead accuse the PPJ of trying to reduce the role of the socialists in order to become the clearly dominant left-wing party.
September 2007: Election of the cabinet by the parliament. President Stevens can?t achieve the composition he hoped for due to his adherent parties? parliamentary minority. But due to the post-electoral discord, also PPJ and SPS can?t agree on a common compositon of the cabinet which they easily could have realized. After a turbulent election with many ballots, the cabinet is mixed of politicians from all six parties in parliament. A joint policy by the new government will never take place.
October 2007 ? April 2008: SPS and PPJ try to distinguish themselves from the other one and from the right-wing parties by sticking to their ideas and objecting to compromises. Conservative VCA and neoliberal LUSC stick together but become increasingly frustrated by their impotence in parliament. Hence all parties and ministers continuously try to use plebiscites as a means to impose their ideas which again increases the paralysis of the parliament and the president.
January 2008: In a new party program, the PPJ distances itself from socialism and speaks out for ?a coaction of state and market to use the powers of competition in a way which ensures that all people profit by it.?
April 2008: Communist hardliner Ron Glean becomes elected chairman of the SPS after previous chairwoman Fintosthane tried to end the chaos by coming to an agreement with the PPJ which would enable them to use the left-wing majority in parliament. Her opponents see this as chumming up with the PPJ and giving up socialist ideals. Fintosthane?s aherers critcise her opponents as ideologists. The SPS is inwardly split.
May / June 2008: Glean claims the role of the leader of all real left politicians and tries to back up this claim by a crucial vote against PPJ minister of internal affairs Corlton, one of the main masterminds of the PPJ?s new party program. In his speech before the vote, which he loses, Glean glorifies socialist one-party dictatorships. As a result, the pragmatic wing of the SPS around Fintosthane and the PPJ amalgate and form the Modern Left People?s Party (MLPP). Takero Yamaguchi, PPJ shooting-star with very good links to the pragmatic SPS members, becomes chairman, PPJ leader Melanie Wathers and ex SPS leader Angela Fintosthane will serve as his powerful deputies. The new party now holds 42% of the seats in parliament. Together with the two small parties, the environmentalist GDP and the immigrant party MPI, it gains the majority of the seats in parliament. The three parties re-elect wide parts of the cabinet, replacing all ministers from VCA, LUSC and the residuale SPS, which soon changes its name into CPS ? Communist Party of Saidercray. Finally, Saidercray has again a government which is somewhat capable of acting, though the cabinet and the president are politically antagonistic. To end also this situation, president, government and parliament agree to hold new elections already in July and to jointly elaborate a new election law which shall prevent another crisis like the one which has now ended.
June 2008: On a cross party conference together with president Stevens at Little Upper Carilton close to Dawsingham, the leaders of all parties in parliament and the president agreed on a radically new election law which shall first be put in practice in this year's elections. The new law will prolong the legislative period from 1 to 4 years to avoid that politicians ?govern half a year and than campaign half a year?, as described by Takero Yamaguchi, leader of the MLPP. Further, there will be introduced a four percent hurdle to enter into the parliament. And finally, the president will be elected in a second election round one week after the parliamentary election. By enabling citizens to take the parliamentary situation into account when electing the head of government, the risk that the president isn?t backed by a parliamentary majority shall be reduced.