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Re: The Bekenial Dispatch

Postby Conser » Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:29 am

Former Chancellor and former minister of Justice, Cristian Buccho, elected leader of the NNPP
The election to determine the new leader of the NPP has been held. Here's the official result:

-Cristian Buccho 59,06% (106 504 votes)
-David Green 6,86% (12 370 votes)
-Caitlin Clark 34,08% (61 458 votes)

That mean that the former Chancellor, Cristian Buccho, is now the new leader of the party.

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(Here Cristian Buccho making his victory speech)

After his victory, mister Murphy made a speech in front of the NNPP's partisans. Here a extract of that speech:

''First of all I would like to thank you all for giving me the immense privilege of being the new leader of our great party. You know, when Jeffrey and I have founded this party 33 years ago, we had a dream for this nation. We dreamed of a Hutori that could be a beacon a liberty and equality across the world. We dreamed of a nation where everyone whatever their origin, their gender, their race or their religion would have equal chance of success. A nation where people could be free to be who they are without being oppresed and marginalized. By the days goes by, we are getting closer and closer to that dream. But our fight isn't over. Corruption and hate are still everywhere in our political system. We need a revolution! With progress in our brain and patriotism in our heart, we most march forward! We will give to our children a nation that they can be pround to be part of.''
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Re: The Bekenial Dispatch

Postby SWPV » Sat Mar 17, 2018 5:49 pm

Socialist Workers Party will hold leadership election this August

April 4364
The Socialist Workers Party have announced a leadership election that will occur this August. All 5.9 million party members are eligible to vote. The winner shall succeed current party leader David Glass immediately upon election.

Candidates

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Michael Ward

He is the brother of Jessica Ward, current SWP spokesperson for Foreign Affairs. Michael, or "Mike," represents the "right-wing" of the party. At 36, he is the average age of SWP delegation. Ward wants to move the party towards "pragmatic" socialism, that supports some aspects of economic de-regulation. A former labour leader, he lead a miners' strike that successfully fought for increased safety regulations. While continuing to advocate for a socialist Hutori, Ward believes that only cooperation between the public and private sectors will eventually synthesize into such a society. He is also more welcoming of working with other parties such as the NNPP and even the LNP.

Ronald Glover

Current SWP spokesperson for Infrastructure and Transport, Ron Glover is from the party's left-wing. Glover, a self-described "Metzist," wants the party commit to remaining a "vanguard" party that serves the working people of Hutori. Of partial Mashacara ancestry (Onyre mother), Glover has advocated for the rights of Mashacara peoples throughout his life. A former Professor of Sociology at Nihstenha University, he has provided extensive research on the relationship between the Luthori colonists and the Mashacara during the early years of colonial Hutori. He, and the rest of the party's left wing, advocates for transition Hutori's mixed economy into a completely planned one. Glover's main platform is continuing the party's push for Hutorian withdrawal from the International Terran Bank, which has prevent state ownership. Glover views the other parties with hostility, but is open to a coalition with the SDP.

Ellen Woods

Current MP from Saint Anselm, Kenai. Woods is from the party's centrist wing, advocating for democratic socialism. She continues the SWP's policy that calls for public ownership of industries. She is a former Ruanist, who is proud of her radical roots, but now believes that a socialist Hutori can be achieved through state institutions that empower workers. Woods was a labour attorney prior to her election as MP for Saint Anselm in 4357. She wants to create an electoral alliance with the NNPP and SDP, but feels that the NNPP has moved too far to the center by forming electoral alliances with right-wing parties.

Current polls

Ward: 33%
Glover: 33%
Woods 34%

Woods: 46.4
Ward: 42.5

Woods: 45.2
Glover:44.3

Ward : 40.4
Glover: 45.2

+/- = 3
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Re: The Bekenial Dispatch

Postby SWPV » Sun Mar 18, 2018 1:52 pm

Glover and Woods move on to the second round of the SWP leadership election


September 4364

MPs Ron Glover and Ellen Woods have moved onto the second round of the SWP leadership election. Turnout was at 89.71%. Here's the results:


Glover 41.47%
Woods 36.43%
Ward 22.10%

The second round will happen in October. The latest polls have shown that Glover has a slight edge over Woods.
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Re: The Bekenial Dispatch

Postby SWPV » Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:34 pm

Ron Glover wins second-round of SWP leadership election

SWP MP Ron Glover wins the second round of the SWP, defeating his opponent, Ellen Woods, by a slim margin. This election affirms the SWP's commitment to socialism. Glover is expected to push the party further left, as he has made statements of wanting to turn the SWP into a revolutionary vanguard party.

Results

Glover - 50.63%

Woods - 49.37%
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Re: The Bekenial Dispatch

Postby RileyHP » Tue Mar 20, 2018 1:14 pm

Houston Retires After Nearly 30 Years in Politics

Conservative leader Danielle Houston has announced her retirement from politics, nearly 30 years after she was first elected. The daughter of the late former Tory leader, Jim Houston, was first elected in 4336 and immediately assumed the role of Finance Minister. She served in that role for 3 years before the Conservatives ended up in opposition. She would assume the role once again when her party returned to cabinet after more than a decade and was the first finance minister to pass a budget since she had in her first term. After the retirement of Johnathan Jones in 4359, Houston would win the leadership of the party in a race that few expected her to win, despite her years of experience. Houston will go down as one of the all time great Conservative MPs and leaders.

Scheer Elected New Conservative Leader

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Aaron Scheer has been elected the new leader of the Conservative Party of Hutori. Scheer has served as Finance Minister for the last 4 years, and has been the MP for Woodhurst - Airdrie for 8 years. Scheer says he is ready to bring the party back to relevancy in Hutori, as they have lost seats in 2 consecutive elections and now have the least amount of seats of all parties in the house. He looks forward to continuing to work alongside the coalition partners of the last government and says he will ensure that Conservative values are not forgotten when government brings forward new legislation.
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Free Software Suite Released for TerraOS

Postby TheCollectivist » Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:55 pm

October 4365

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Image: TerraOS Media Editor icon.

The Ataraxians have released a free 2D graphics suite for their open-source operating system, TerraOS (TOS). Like other Ataraxian software, TerraOS Media Editor is open-source and is under a copyleft license. It represents the third software release for TerraOS after TerraOS Office and TerraOS Antivirus. TerraOS Media Editor comes with a video editor, raster editor, and a vector editor.

The Application Software Cooperative of the Commune of Ataraxia led the development of the software, with help from other programming cooperatives, such as the System Software Cooperative of the Commune of Ataraxia and, others throughout the Ataraxian Confederation. In total 184 programmers contributed to the development throughout the course of five years.

Critics have given the initial release positive reviews, noting its high stability and good integration between application modules within the suite. While the suite has extensive features, the Ataraxians admitted that it will take future releases to make the software up to the same level of proprietary alternatives. Noted is the lack of 3D features in the suite, which some proprietary graphics suites offer.
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Lyn Kopp Dead at 107

Postby TheCollectivist » Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:44 pm

May 4366

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Lyn Kopp (September 4258 - May 4366), the Ambassador of the Ataraxian Confederation, and former Hutorian chancellor, has died at the age of 107. Kopp, a centenarian, was the subject of scientific research of aging in the Ataraxian Confederation. The life expectancy for Ataraxians is 91 years, when not accounting for intentional deaths from euthanasia. Ataraxian doctors had warned Kopp that at her age she may die at any moment, but due to her status as a centenarian and relatively good health, encouraged her to "see how long it takes". Kopp agreed, although made sure that her successors were already determined. Kopp succeeded Ataraxian founder Dr. Vinal Parish in May 4303 as the second Ataraxian ambassador.

Outside of politics, Kopp worked as a structural engineer in the Commune of Seira, where she held a number of positions, including commune conciliator, construction syndicate councillor, and structural engineering cooperative organizer. Before joining the Ataraxian Confederation, she was a member of their predecessor political party, the Hutorian Proletarian Party, which she joined in September 4289. At a younger age, she received her education at the
Woodhurst Institute of Technology.

During her service as Ataraxian ambassador, many development projects occurred, such as the construction of the Ataraxian capital, the Commune of Ataraxia, and several large fibre to the premises installations in Adelia. During her time as chancellor, she oversaw the Ataraxian Majority of 4329, an historical event in which the Ataraxians gained a national majority government and attempted to decentralize the Hutorian police and military. This event lead to great controversy and their majority ended after only a year in August 4330. Citing inability to govern both the Ataraxian Confederation and Hutori, the Kopp Administration agreed to early elections and stepped down shortly after. A few months later in January 4331, the Ataraxian Benevolence Project was announced, which planned to keep Ataraxians distant from internal Hutorian politics, but still contribute in the form of mutual development projects.

Kopp's legacy among Hutorians is one of controversy and reconciliation. More than 30 years since the Ataraxian Majority, the Ataraxians have largely repaired their reputation as idiosyncratic, but benevolent technocrats that have invested billions in telecommunication infrastructure in Adelia. Within the Ataraxian Confederation, Kopp was known for her rigid optimism, unrelenting scientific enthusiasm, and skillful diplomacy. If Parish could be considered the "father" of the Ataraxian Confederation, Kopp could be considered the "mother", although it is doubtful either would accept such titles given their antinatalism.

An autopsy confirmed that Kopp had died during sleep from an ischemic stroke. In place of Kopp, Marvyn Warrick, a 79-year-old geological engineer and the Commune of Ataraxia's conciliator has been appointed the third Ambassador of the Ataraxian Confederation. Warrick had contributed to the construction of the Commune of Ataraxia, in which he helped conduct and coordinate digging operations.
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Ataraxians Endorse Mixed Economy in New Platform

Postby TheCollectivist » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:17 pm

May 4372

The Ataraxians have announced a new platform that openly endorses a mixed economy with decentralized planning in addition to their traditional support of localism. This new platform marks a change in foreign policy for the Ataraxian Confederation. Ataraxians previously supported their own internal policies, such as total democratic control of the economy through workers' councils, for Hutori when not given the option for supporting local autonomy in bills. Now, when not given the option to support local autonomy, Ataraxians will endorse policies that favour nationalization of only important sectors, such as health care and education, while supporting some degree of privatization in sectors deemed less important for human well-being, such as the media and "non-essential" consumer products.

Norbert Lowell, an Ataraxian economist and Organizer of the Thermoeconomics Cooperative of the Commune of Ataraxia said that Ataraxians have deemed their system in its entirety is "not applicable to the outside world":

Lowell wrote:It is unreasonable and unrealistic to apply the same expectations of the world outside the Ataraxian Confederation with that of our own carefully crafted and managed system. Unlike our system, the world outside is very diverse, particularly in lifestyle and philosophy. We are able to carefully select every single member of our society and have built a system of equitable distribution from the start. The outside world, Hutori in specific, is not as lucky. They have to maintain and build upon very old systems. Furthermore their sheer scale of both population and diversity warrants a certain degree of economic freedom just to make the system function efficiently. For this we say: when not given the choice in bills to support local autonomy, we will support a mixed economy instead. An economy that mixes entrepreneurship, labour unions, private property, consumerism, and state enterprise. We hope that this mix of social security, nationalization with decentralized planning, and privatization will result in a more efficient, but still orderly and ethical system that combines the various ideologies of the outside world.


Marvyn Warrick, the current Ataraxian ambassador, has stated that the confederation will release a dossier sometime in the near future that will provide in detail their new political platform.
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Re: The Bekenial Dispatch

Postby RileyHP » Tue Apr 03, 2018 1:47 pm

Tory Leader Optimistic About Upcoming Election

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The leader of the Conservative Party of Hutori, Aaron Scheer made a campaign stop today in Hutori's largest city, and the financial hub of the nation, Acton. He met with business leaders and held a rally outside 1660 Hollis, the party's national headquarters. While speaking with business leaders, he told them that his party is committed to lowering the corporate tax rate, which he says will lead to increased jobs and a stronger Hutorian economy. At his rally, he told supporters that his party is also committed to making the tax changes that he proposed during his time as finance minister in the early 4360s.

"In my time as the Minister of Finance, I proposed tax changes and spending reductions that would allow hardworking Hutorians to keep more of their own money. Unfortunately the measures did not pass due to parties in that coalition not voting. Should this party be given the opportunity to govern Hutori once again, we will implement these changes and give the hardworking people of Hutori the tax break they deserve!"


Scheer also said that he is very optimistic about what this election could bring.

"In the last election, the Conservative Party gained more than 50 seats. That tells me that there is a strong Conservative movement here in Hutori,
and this time around, we will become the largest party in Hutori. It is time for a Conservative government to get Hutori back on track, and Hutorians are ready for it."
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Re: The Bekenial Dispatch

Postby RileyHP » Fri Apr 06, 2018 3:06 am

Hutori Elects Conservative Chancellor For First Time

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For the first time in the party's history, the Conservative leader is now the chancellor of the Commonwealth of Hutori. Aaron Scheer was named chancellor after the formation of a cabinet coalition between the Conservatives, the New National Progress Party and the Liberal National Party. The Conservatives held a victory celebration shortly after the news was announced, and Chancellor Scheer gave an impassioned speech to thousands of supporters where he outlined his vision for Hutori.

"Thank you everyone! Tonight is the beginning of a new chapter in the history of this great nation. This party was founded in 4298, and while we have had many great leaders and cabinet ministers, we have never had a Chancellor. After 76 long years that has changed tonight and I am honored to be your Chancellor. Under my government, Hutorians will see massive tax breaks, cutback of wasteful government spending, investment in small businesses and much more. For far too long, Hutorians have paid extremely high income tax rates, in our upcoming budget, we will eliminate income tax for those earning under 20,000 HLR per year and we will give everyone else well deserved tax breaks. We will be able to do this and bring Hutori a balanced budget by reducing the wasteful spending that has been done by past governments. Hutorians have long deserved a Chancellor that will work for them, and make their lives a little easier. I will be that chancellor and the Conservative Party, along with our coalition allies, will go down as one of the greatest governments this nation has ever had!"
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