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The apparent backstab by a number of extremist members of Prime Minister Meia Winter's National Conservative Party has lead to the first successful vote of No Confidence in 16 years on the floor of the Casaran Parlament. The apparent switch came from a proposal by Winter's shadow, National Labor's Ari Elisar and the Casari Liberal's Shadow Foriegn Minister Scott Edi. While Winter to date has had 14 proposed votes of no confidence to date, none had the majority necessary to push it to a vote.
However, 14 NatCon Counts and 34 Representatives voting in favor of the proposal gave the opposition the strength it needed to pass the proposal and bring the matter to a vote, 379-353.
When offered the oppertunity to address the Assembly under the rules of government, Hunter merely left, along with a good number of her remaining supporters in the National Conservative party. The resulting vote of No Confidence resulted in an extremely lopsided 379-63 vote, with most supporters of Winter leaving behind her.
The Special Committee for Elections declared soon afterward a Summer Campaign for 1501, after 8 years under the guidance of Prime Minister Winter. The Elections season will start on the Sixteenth of May, when submissions to run for office will be opened. The Campaign season will start on 20 June, with the final debates on the 18th and 25th of July, with the traditional Election day of 1 August.
While the political situation remains up in the air a bit, we can attempt to predict the platforms of the major parties.
NATIONAL LABOR- The National Labor Party is well in the hands of Ari Elisar. The return to a Pro-worker ideal has made the party a popular alternative for the populist views of Winter. Along with an increase in Welfare programs and worker benefit laws, the National Labor Party is currently heavily pressing for Casaran Intervention in the increasingly tense situation in Atlantian Oceania. Their heavy support of a third alliance is seen to make the party a heavy favorite of third party powers in the region. With Winter, who for the past eight years has been a constant thorn in their side, now out of power, the Labor party can press their current role to try for an outright majority.
CASARI LIBERAL- The Casari Liberal party will be in the hands of aforementioned Scott Edi, who is taking the leading role in the party for the upcoming elections. While also favoring international intervention, Edi has made several passionate speechs against the SAAS and is seen as a pro-SDL presence in the Assembly. The weakening of the currently harsh Casaran Drug and Medication Acts, which put bans on illegal drugs with heavy penalties for posession of extremely small amounts and strict controls over legal medications has been one of their stated goals. The accusation that these laws have created a thriving black market have to date been denied by the Winter administration but will remain a strong point for the CasLibs. While they're not expected to win the majority, they would be a substantial partner in any political alliance.
NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE- The NatCons don't have much of a platform after the ousting of Winter, but expectations are for the party, under the leadership of longtime former party leader Lewis Briggs, are to foster a heavy pro-business stance to try and bring in foriegn industrial development and money to boost the economy, which currently rests upon raw materials mining and oil drilling, along with the extremely strong fishing sector. While making promises of increased social programs, that's not to be expected.
MEIA WINTER- Winter herself is a considerable political force. Leaving with her is many other young faces in her cabinet- Deputy PM Uri Romero, Foriegn Minister James Sartora, Defense Minister Lewis Sendros, Justice Minister Alexander Simmons, and Culture Minister Link Scott. While Unpopular among their rivals, the populist ideals of Winter and her heavy investment into social programs has made the Winter government one of the most popular in the last one hundred years. The only hanging points to her campaign would be two- her isolationist leanings, and her lack of a party support structure. Suggestions of the creation of a new party or joining another minor party, such as the Pan-Mountain Alliance, have met with silence from the Winter camp, who recently occupied offices in Tyrellia across the street from Assembly Hall on the West corner of the P and 34th street intersection and began hiring and accepting volunteers. However the Election pans out, we can still expect a strong push from the Winter camp and a swelling of popular support.
As the political situation develops, the Networks of the CasariMedia Group will be sure to keep you up to date on all the developments.
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OOC: I absolutely LOVE the original names you guys come up with for TV channels. |
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OOC:  That's awfully harsh on the BBC, btw.
CasariTV Special Report
19 May, 1501
As the opening date for submissions of intent passes, the first card in the hands of parties moving for control of Assembly Hall in the upcoming elections was delt.
Five parties submitted a full list of canadates, showing their intent to contest every seat in the assembly. The highlights of those lists being the party leaders themselves. Labor's Elisar is standing for the Whitefox County seat, including the nation's capital of Tyrellia, once again, with the CasLib's Edi standing in the nearby Einhaven County. Briggs will be running for the County Seat of Kittson County on the northwest point of Casari, while Winter will be the flagbearer for the new Populist Party, running from her home county of Einhaven. The fifth party to contest every seat, the Greens, sees their leader, Mark Trubeck, running for the Port County seat on Casari's Silver Coast. While the leaders can, of course, be expected to win their respective elections in their hometowns, the rest of the nation is very much up for grabs.
While the budgets of the parties themselves cannot be cracked open until the formal opening of the campaign season on 20 June, the grassroots efforts are already underway. This, of course, is the strength of Winter's Populists, as they have had the youth movement well in hand and currently hold the nation's campuses clearly in their corner. The weakness of their campaign, as has been said in many places, is that the coffers of the Populist party are miniscule at the moment, making them sure to be outgunned once the ads go on the air.
Many of the Pre-Winter era voters still remember the former Labor governments of 1480s and are hoping to repay the social programs of that era with a victory on the First of August. Labot has always been a party more than willing to bide it's time in elections and let the unions it was founded to represent do it's work for it.
The National Conservatives, returning to their classic pro-business stance, have been quiet on the grassroots front, as their considerable budget won't come into play until closer to the elections. The business owners of Casari, however, will know what side their bread is buttered on.
The CasLibs, on the other hand, might be in the most interesting position of all. While having no majority in any demographic group, they still manage an extremely strong across the board showing in popular support, with several strong minorities in several demographic groups. Their greatest asset, however, has to be Edi, who is one of the most charismatic leaders to grace assembly hall in years. While Winter's brute-force speaking and negotiating style is useful for getting things done at times and has wide appeal with those who view the government as a crowd of corrupt rich men, of the party leaders, Edi has to be the true wordsmith among the four.
The Green Party is an enigma in the election. While they've managed a number of successful campaigns in some areas of the country, their lack of appeal with everyday voters has always held them back. With the current power vaccum, however, party officals must have felt it was the time to press an attack. Their new leader, Mark Trubeck, is easily the most personally likeable of the party leaders. However, likeability does not translate into government effectiveness.
While the grassroots machines wind up, the election is likely to sit on the back burner as party leaders send out their feelers to feel for sources of domestic and international support.
The CMG will continue to cover the early campaign developments, along with coverage of the early season debates until we get to the Party Leader's debate on July 24th. |
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OOC: For a start, the BBC are allowed because they did it first.
There is no primary TV channel in Falcania. The two main contenders are Airwave TV and Skyranger Broadcasting. |
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OOC: Then ABC, the CBC, Burundi National Radio and Television, RAI, and YLE all must be moochers on a theme. Those bastards!  |
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CasariTV Special Report
2 August, 1501
As the results come in, problems have begun to unfold for the parties in this year's elections.
National Labor narrowly won the day, winning 30 counties and 177 districts, giving them 237 votes on the assembly floor. Meia Winter's Populists ran them right to the end, carrying 31 counties and 173 districts, leaving them 2 votes behind labor. The Liberals carried 26 counties and 134 districts, with 186 votes total. The Conservatives, however, without the leadership of Winter, fell drastically, winning only 14 Counties and 83 Districts to hold 111 votes on the assembly floor.
In the fight of the little parties, the Pan-Mountains were the best of the rest, with 32 votes, ahead of the Greens with 18, the Farmers with 16, the Hooligans with 10, Socialists with 9, Independance Party with 2, and the Drunks, Unioners, and National Front with one each.
As no group hit the magic number of 376 necessary for majority control, it will likely pan out into a game of alliances to see who sits in the Prime Minister's chair. However, it's not beyond anyone's guess, as the most likely Labor-Liberal Alliance will be satisfactory to put Elisar on top.
The effects of a Labor/Liberal government, however, are going to impact foriegn policy the most. From a rather isolationist goverment under Winter to the interventionist stances of both Elisar and Edi are going to quickly fling the nation into a position of looking for friends on an international stage. Then again, there's still a vote to be had.
Until September First, this has been a CasariTV Special Report. |
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CasariTV Special Report
2 September, 1501
It only took fourty-five minutes to see the conformation of Ari Elisar as the next holder of the title "Prime Minister of the Confederated Colonies of Casari," and then another 40 for him to lay out the Labor/Liberal Cabinet and see the Populist shadow cabinet.
Today, Elisar took the podium for his first address to the nation. Stressing the need to become involved in international politics, he stressed the expansion of the diplomatic corps and both modernization and expansion of the current number of army regiments along with the modernization of the fleet.
"We cannot afford to sit and watch while the rest of the region looks for more nations to exploit. Sitting with old rifles and older tanks and praying that they're going to protect us is no way to protect our nation and our interests."
How the proposed Military expansion plan will fit into the budget is jet to be seen, but the speech raised a strong reaction from the Populist Camp.
"How will we fund these glorious programs to defend the country? Taking our children out of schools to arm them and put them in a foxhole for their adult lives? Making ourselves a threat is the easiest way to start a war that these programs are supposed to avoid." Winter said to the media after the speech.
Although the armament programs will need to go through the Assembly, already overtures are being made through diplomatic channels in an effort to increase the nation's international presence.
Live, from Tyrellia, this has been CasariTV. |
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