by Auditorii » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:12 pm
National Agrarian Party forms, calls on government for elections
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Kispilgon, Kundár-Nova Zergonska - Bognár Flórián, newly elected President of the newly formed National Agrarian Party rallied with supporters outside of the Royal Palace in Kispilgon. The rally was called for King Ottokar Lorand to replace the current government dominated by a caretaker government of former members of the Royal House of Syldavia. Championing the rally was a distant relative of the House of Syldavia, Prince Gáspár Szabolc, who stands at the head of the House of Szabolc. The Prince has been rallying for his distant family members to stand down and allow for the rise of a "new nobility" and "fresh leadership" in a nation that has suffered underneath the weight of poor management, corrupt officials and generally ineffective government. The National Agrarian Party announced a platform that was dedicated to the agrarian nature of the Endralonian people, increasing international cooperation and focusing on domestic issues such as rebuilding the failing infrastructure and economy that has allowed unemployment to soar to nearly 30%. NAP officials held mini-rallies focusing around the central rally to better address their diverse and powerful message. Rallies held around economics focused on prospective Minister of Trade and Industry Florian von Fiedler-Reder and Minister of Finance Borbély Viktor who spoke about increasing regulations in order to strength the desire of domestic and foreign investors to invest and build in Endralon. Little information was given on specifics but NAP President Flórián announced that the NAP would be holding an informational session for business owners, landowners and investors within the coming weeks following their calls for elections.
Tapped to lead the Defense Ministry was veteran administrative Colonel Severin Sulzer, a former member of the Royal Army who stepped down from his commission to join the National Agrarian Party. Sulzer noted that he wanted to rebuild the Royal Armed Forces and focus on a highly mobile, focused armed forces that was "conventional and practical" in today's world. Sulzer noted that the large formation battles were a thing of the past and quick reaction forces, well-equipped and trained soldiers, sailors and airmen won wars. The Defense Ministry would also be joined by veteran staff officers and administrations that resigned en masse to protest the woefully inadequate leadership offered by the current caretaker government. The Defense Minister noted that he was eager to get to work had the pressure from the protests worked, he assured that the Endralonian people were eager and waiting for change and that if the government was so sure of their platform that they best call for elections and let the population decide what they wanted. Despite the general center-right dominance of the National Agrarian Party, a notable inclusion was nationalist, some say ultranationalist, and anti-communist, anti-socialist activist Molnár Kálmán whose fiery speeches to his supporters were often aimed at forcefully removing those elements from society. Despite his fiery and brimstone approach, he is a noted former Deputy Minister from the Interior Ministry and has been tapped to become Minister of the Interior if the NAP wins plurality in elections.
Despite the focus on economics and military reform, several other prominent Endralonian professionals were touted as members of the NAP. Florijan Iličić, Chairman of Agriculture at the University of Kundár-Nova Zergonska was selected as the likely candidate for Minister of Food and Agriculture. Iličić has become a large proponent of pro-government subsidies into crops and stated that his ministry would focus on ensuring that Endralon became a prime exporter of several strategic crops and focus on rebuilding a once incredibly powerful fishing industry. While the National Agrarian Party has a primary focus on the dominantly agricultural society that once saw the nation called the "breadbasket of Artania", they have no neglected their industrial base that is eager for change and reform. Florian von Fiedler-Reder, the likely choice for Minister of Trade and Industry, is a noted Dundorfian industrialist that owns a number of businesses that are conglomerated into Fiedler-Reder AG, he has become a large proponent of opening an Artanian Defense Group factory in Endralon that will see the ties between the largest defense company in Artania and one of the largest in the world, bring thousands of jobs to the Endralonian people. The minister, a keen politician who perhaps harbors higher aspirations, is hoping to exploit the on-going exodus of Dorvish and Dundorfian businessmen and women to bring skilled labor to Endralon.
Meanwhile in the field of foreign affairs veteran diplomat and former representative to the World Congress Mladen Salinović has been selected as the man to lead the NAP's foreign policy which advocates a pro-Artanian, incredibly internationalist stance. Salinović has advocated for the re-establishment of a content-wide organization and has become a vocal opponent of the current World Congress structure. Salinović has made it clear that he wishes to cooperate with the few non-socialist and communist states that Artania has let. He criticized the "Red Terror" that has erupted throughout Terra and that if not met with "fire and iron" Terra is going to fall into a whole and the economic integrity of the world is very much in danger. Salinović noted that Endralon will look to seek closer ties to nations such as Vanuku, Kazulia and Lourenne who are a counterbalance to the Coalition of Revolutionary Socialist States such as Dundorf and as he fears, Dorvik. Despite this, Salinović noted that the first step in procuring an effective international program was rebuilding the homefront and he was eager to work alongside his fellow Endralonians to rebuild his once powerful nation.