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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby PeterXenon » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:35 pm

Elections 2828: Historic low for CU - Party to the opposition

Big election loss for the Communitarian Union, the party reaches an historic low, only 25% of the votes and by that has to hand in 43 seats in the Senate. The CU resigned from the government coalition and wants to be in the opposition the coming legislature, said party president Chris Jodyn. The winner of Elect 2828 is the Nuovo Orrizonte who gained 8% and becomes the second largest party after the SDP. The SDP, still the largest and deliverer of the Head of State, marked a 2% loss in their seat share. The most obvious new government coalition will be yellow-black, a more leftist course for the next legislature is predicted by the analyst.
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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby Marcos Esteban » Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:37 pm

Historic Elections of July 3245


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It all started with the official founding of the Kundrati Traditionalist Union on December 20th, 3242. The right-wing party founded by Santiago Bonafonta was officially registered as a party of the Kundrati Union Feburary 16th, 3243, making it eligible as a candidate on the nationwide Federal Senate elections of July 3245.


Soon after its registration as a political party, the Kundrati Traditionalist Union began a very large and elaborated nation-wide publicity campaign. Regarding this campaign, current party president and founder Santiago Bonafonta stated:

"It has been nearly 56 years since the Kundrati Union had at least two political parties. It was running like a single-party state. All of us have been under the influences of a single party, and we had begun to get accustomed to it. There was no true democracy, not because the law didn't allow it, but because no one really cared about being forced into one ideology... Our opposition (Falange) had 56 years of publicity, we needed to compete with that in only 2."

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Here are the official results

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Some people state that these results are "very weak on the KTU's (Kundrati Traditionalist Union's) part." Believing that the 56 year long situation will not change at all, and the current Kundrati political scene has changed very little. In response, Santiago Bonafonta stated:

"We (KTU) are rather happy with these results, it shows progress. It might not have been what some wanted, but it definitely shows that the political scene in Kundrati is changing. We are a young party, and have all the vigor and strength that comes along with youth. I believe we've all heard the saying, 'Rome wasn't built in a day'...However, rest assured that the KTU will do all in its power to promote the believes of those who voted for us, size is not an obstacle we can't overcome."


Curiously enough, though, all 160 seats under the Kundrati Traditionalist Union came from the state of Celania. As evidenced by this official report:

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When asked about this at a press conference, KTU Leader and Founder, Santiago Bonafonta jokingly stated; "That's it! I officially declare Celania the new party headquarters."

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Some people were also alarmed by the percent of abstention in the country.

Nevertheless, these past elections have put a stop to 56 years of single-party governing and ushered in a new age for the nation of Kundrati.
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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby Zanz » Tue Dec 31, 2013 12:14 am

Newly formed Communist Party publishes controversial manifesto
Kundratiko Albisteak Eguneko

July 3599

KASAEMA - Following the First Congress of the Communist Party of Kundrati (Kundrati: Kundratiko Alderdi Komunista, KAK) in Kasaema this month, Kundrati has a new player on the national electoral scene.

The First Congress elected its Central Committee with little issue and the Central Committee in turn elected the party's ruling structure, the Political Bureau (Politburo) of the Communist Party of Kundrati. Party founder Comrade Luken Zuñiga was elected unanimously as the Party's first General Secretary.

The Party has for centuries competed in local elections, striving to organize workers' councils (Kundrati: Langileen Kontseiluak) in one of Artania's most notoriously free-market societies. Recently, given tensions flaring across Artania, KAK members have felt compelled to bring their message to the national scale.

Immediately after the First Congress the Party published its first national manifesto, which called for, among other things, nationalization of all energy companies, banks, and stock markets; restrictions on the ability of religions to promote themselves; and the abolition of recycling laws. Experts do not believe this radical bill will see support from either of the other parties running on the national scale.

The KAK has made clear its intention to end Kundrati's self imposed isolation, applying for observer status at the 2nd session of the Artanian Council of Representatives.
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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby Zanz » Thu Jan 02, 2014 5:47 am

Election brings Communist Party into opposition
Kundratek Albisteakath Degin

September 3599

KASAEMA - The first national election contested by the Communist Party of Kundrati (CPK) brought the freshman party firmly into opposition against the Kundrati Liberty Movement (KLM) and saw the election of CPK General Secretary Luken Zuñiga to the highest elected position in Kundrati, the Praeses.

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September 3599 Federal Senate election results by electoral district

Though the CPK did not take control of the Federal Senate, the Communists' quick rise has been called 'meteoric' by some commentators. Political scientists chalk the success of the new party up to recent inactivity on the part of the KLM and a 'disconnect between KLM policies and Kundrati realities.'

The CPK fared best in Kundrati's northeastern lowlands, in the states of Pilgon and Peghonai, and fared particularly well in urban areas of the southwest. Still, the KLM swept the states of Celania and Lirnak with more than 70% of the popular vote in each state, maintaining its majority in the Federal Senate.

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Federal Senate seat apportionment

Praeses Luken Zuñiga startled some of the more traditional in Kundrati's elite by introducing himself in his inaugural address as "Kamarade Zuñiga," Comrade Zuñiga asserting himself as what the Communists have called "the first among equals."

It is unclear whether the CPK will be able to negotiate a deal with the KLM to enter government, as the latter holds enough seats to shoot down any cabinet proposal of which it disapproves, and the KLM appears to be categorically opposed to the CPK's policies. Comrade Zuñiga is optimistic, though, that some agreement can be reached. It is clear that the CPK desires input particularly on foreign affairs, as it is rearing for the chance to engage Kundrati on the Artanian scene for the first time in centuries.
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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby Zanz » Sat Jan 04, 2014 3:50 am

Editorial: KLM 'government of ghosts' an utter failure
Kundratek Albisteakath Degin

August 3601
Comrade Luken Zuñiga, Praeses of Kundrati, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kundrati

Comrades! A great injustice has occurred and your government has failed to address it! Your government has failed to protect a citizen of Kundrati from foreign prejudice!

The Kundrati Liberty Movement put itself into government long ago when it faced no relevant opposition on the national level. The KLM has maintained this monopoly on power in the Kundrati Union for many years unopposed: every seat in the cabinet is comprised of the same members that took those seats in 3544! Fifty seven years in power! And yet we have heard seldom a word from them in all this time! No press releases, no public appearances! I can attest to the fact that even I, Head of State to this most grand nation, have yet to speak to one member of our so-called government, despite my attempts to contact someone - anyone - from the KLM. So we must ask: where is our government? Do they even exist? Did they ever? It is a government of ghosts! It is Kundrati's best kept secret, and it is a mystery that cannot be allowed to remain shrouded.

For all of these decades this abominable misgovernment has gone unnoticed, and as horrible as that fact may be, it is hardly surprising to those of us who pay close attention to the state of Kundrati. Our state is an exemplar of the horrors of laissez-faire economic philosophy run amok. The sweat of our laborers was sold many years ago to the highest bidder, and the Kundrati citizen was left with nothing: no minimum wage to ensure that work is rewarded, and waves of Ibutho immigrants were imported to supply cheap labor and drive down prices artificially; no healthcare system provided except for to those able to afford the ransoms extolled by Kundrati's corporatized hospitals; prisons and schools run for profit with similar results for the victims of each system: utter moral and educational depravity; banks refusing to lend capital except on the most punitive terms. It is hardly surprising that Kundrati's citizenry didn't notice the ghosts that ran their nation: to them, it appeared that no one was running it at all!

But now there is an alternative to the phantasmal KLM. Now there are the Communists. We have awoken masses to their suffering and we are taking this nation by storm. There is certainly much work to be done in Kundrati, and the Communist Party will take that work upon itself. My own election to the nation's highest position has laid upon me the responsibility to point out the failures of the KLM's government as I mentioned above, and I will illustrate this failure through one specific incident in which the government has failed yet again: I am, of course, referring to the [urlhttp://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2572&start=50#p69912]Kundrati man accused of 'witchcraft'[/url] in the Ibutho Nation.

The Ibutho Nation is one of backwardness and superstition, even more deprived of progress than is Kundrati. None of Artania's powers know how to deal with the Ibutho Nation, and Kundrati has for years interacted with it only as a source of remarkably cheap human capital. For this there is much resentment against the Ibutho in Kundrati, where Ibutho workers displaced many Kundrati natives in the KLM's beloved 'free marketplace.' And now a Kundrati man, Josu Azarol, is accused of witchcraft for using what, to all modern eyes is clearly electricity. He now is sent to the notorious Ibutho Chief Mlungisi to "face punishment for his foul deeds."

And he faces Chief Mlungisi alone.

The Kundrati government will take no action. It has not for fifty seven years. It is comprised of nothingness, of phantoms and lies. And the Kundrati government will not allow itself to be replaced. Fittingly, the KLM did not oppose the Communist Party's attempt to enter government bilaterally, it simply quietly abstained, dooming the proposed government to failure.

I ask you openly, Chief Mlungisi, pardon Josu Azarol. Allow Kundrati's stirring proletariat to awaken a similar consciousness in your nation. Azarol's attempt to endow your nation with the comforts of modernity is only the tip of the potentiality that exists for Kundrati-Ibutho relations, if only we are allowed to interact civilly. Do not condemn Josu Azarol to punishment. Welcome modernity with open arms, and Kundrati's citizens will work with you.

We are left with two hopes now in Kundrati. The first hope is that the awakening lower class will continues its ascent into consciousness and remove the KLM from government by legal means. I am hopeful that this is the case. The second hope is that should the KLM not be removed from power in the next election, and should the phantom government continue to sit, a revolution must be undertaken and the KLM forcibly removed.
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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby Aquinas » Mon Jan 06, 2014 5:46 pm

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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby sinister42 » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:53 am

Period of darkness ends with revolution in Kundrati Union


The Bread and Roses Party, a coalition of autonomous worker organizations representing all sectors of Kundrati labor, has taken steps to cement the Kundrati Union's progress toward the full emancipation of the working class from the shackles of capitalism, after a successful revolution ousted the long-time single party rule of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Under the leadership of the BRP as the elected representative of the Kundrati working class, the nation has already withdrawn from bourgeois treaties such as the Altarian Union (ooc: however that's spelled) and a bizarrely constructed financial agreement that gave preferential treatment to a foreign bank. In addition, all business and industry in the Kundrati Union is now owned and controlled by democratic workers' councils. Where the workers cannot organize new democratic social and economic structures autonomously, the state, in the form of the Council of Free Workers, a national legislative body made up of representatives of industrial and community unions, has stepped in to take up the slack. Slowly but surely we are erasing the scourge of capitalism and winning the class war, as we always knew we would.

We are not a communist nation, or a socialist nation. We are a nation of workers, united by a greater cause than ideology alone. The "Union" in the name of our nation - Kundrati Union - now has a new meaning. We are "one big union" of autonomous, self-managing, democratic worker organizations, striving together to create a dynamic and innovative new economic model, one based not on a vanguard party, but on the true empowerment of all workers, and the creation of a society that lives by the old motto: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

We invite the world to visit our nation and witness our progress, and take lessons back to your own nations about how to model our revolution for yourselves. The emancipation of the working class will be the end of capitalism. It is inevitable.

We further invite all nations to adopt legislation to comport with the United Democratic Economies treaty organization, so that the emancipated workers of the world can trade freely on an equal basis and support each other through mutual aid.

In the meantime, we once again offer ourselves as a model of autonomous worker self-management, of the creation of One Big Union, and a regional bottom-up system of organizing that puts the most power in the hands of those who are directly in control of the outcome.

Remember, you have nothing to lose but your chains. It may sound like a cliche, but it's as true today as it was when it was written. We've thrown our shackles away, but there's no guarantee that the capitalists won't try to seize power again through trickery, manipulation, and exploitation. That's what they do.

All power to the working class. No war but class war.

Sincerely,

The government of the Kundrati Union
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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby sinister42 » Sat Oct 04, 2014 9:57 pm

A new flag to be hoisted

The Council of Free Workers has proposed a new flag for the Kundrati Union, one that honors our nation's history and serves as a symbol of its future as a cooperative nation of autonomous workers. The red and black workers' flag is banded with the blue of the historical Kundrati flag, and a redesign of the eagle crest stands proud in the upper left corner.

The Bread and Roses Party has voted unanimously to accept the new flag, and we hope that our friends in the Union for a Popular Movement will join us in a show of national unity to raise this new flag.

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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby sinister42 » Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:25 pm

BRP dismayed at counter-revolutionary reversal

The Bread and Roses Party is dismayed that upon seizing power in the last election, the Union for a Popular Majority has made its first task the dismantling of the democratic freedoms won by the working class during the BRP's tenure. The vote to withdraw from the United Democratic Economies treaty seriously undermines the overtures of friendship and cooperation that the BRP has made toward the UPM by joining in a unity cabinet for the good of the Kundrati Union.

"We will have to seriously think about how much we want to cooperate with a party whose first act in power is to put the working class back in capitalist chains," said party leader and former Council Chair candidate Alexi Kundratus. "They may have a majority, but not a big enough one to pass constitutional changes. We'll have something to say about that," he added.
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Re: [KNN] Kundrati National News

Postby sinister42 » Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:35 pm

Tensions rise within BRP leadership

A tense meeting of Bread and Roses Party leaders ended with no major announcements or press releases. However, it was clear from the grim faces that left the meeting that something was up. An anonymous source close to party leader Alexi Kundratus has told this reporter that the dispute arises from "whether to continue in the unity government with the UPM." According to the source, the majority sentiment is in favor of staying in the unity government, because the party feels it is "critical" to maintain control of key cabinet posts. However, a vocal minority has called for the resignation of BRP cabinet ministers in protest of the recent vote to withdraw from the United Democratic Economies treaty, which the BRP "worked its tail off" to put together.
"Being in the opposition is attractive, because it means we can prevent the UPM from undoing the constitutional changes we worked for, but it also means we can't negotiate on the smaller stuff," said the source. "Honestly, the party leaders are stunned that the elections went the way they did. I think Alexi is so convinced of his own ideology that he couldn't imagine that Kundrati workers wouldn't want to move forward exactly as the books said they would. When that didn't happen...well, let's just say the party doesn't quite know what to do with that."
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