Elections in the Federation

[Centurius]

OOC Note: The result of this poll will only be binding for 50% of the Assembly of the People.

IC:

With almost a year past since the planned elections and wars coming to an end and the inclusion of the Antarctic territories and the New Palma Republic all citizens received a call to vote, as always voting was mandatory unless a person was unable to do so due to an illness.

[b]Athenian Socialist Alliance[/b]
With the Athenian Socialist Alliance and the Athenian Communist Party merged together the Athenian Socialist Alliance is by far the biggest party currently in the Assembly, originally founded by the Empress during the resistance against the former Greek government the Alliance has been in the government of the Federation since its foundation guiding it throughout the world and beyond.

Political Spectrum: Left
Ideology: Hellenic Socialism

Main Election Promises:
-Maintain an efficient and fair social security system
-Improve healthcare and education
-Decrease involvement of the Hellenic Armed Forces to the world and decrease budget of the Department of Defense
-Establish a cash reserve for industries getting into trouble for any reason
-Lower unemployment rate to 4% from 8%

[b]Liberal Union[/b]
Created from a young union of the Athenian Capitalist Union and right parties from the New Palma Republic the Liberal Union is a party seeking to put more attention on the individual and limit the meddling of government with the people themselves.

Political Spectrum: Right
Ideology: Liberalism/Capitalism

Main Election Promises:
-Implement a flat tax of 30% for all incomes rather than the existing progressive system
-Open up all government industries to the private sector
-Decrease deployed military and increase domestic police
-Drastically cut the amount of departments and government personnel

[b]Slavic Unity Party[/b]
Created with the Bulgarian Freedom Party getting an influx from Macedonians and thus renaming itself to the Slavic Unity Party, a political group seeking to increase influence of the Slavic minorities. The Slavic Unity Party is suspected of having links with the terrorist Slavic Independence Army and assisting the rebels in the Bulgarian Civil War. There currently are 11 trials against important figures within the party.

Political Spectrum: Extreme-Right
Ideology: Conservatism/Nationalism

Main Election Promises:
-Improve funding of projects within Bulgaria, Macedonia and the parts of Greece with relative majorities of ethnic Russians and Croatians
-Increase funding to the military to make the Hellenic Armed Forces an even stronger force
-Improving independence and autonomy of regions from Athens
-Abolish the Monarchy and implement a republic
[b]
Equal Rights Party[/b]
Like the other 3 parties not yet represented in the Assembly the Equal Rights Party is a newcomer to the scene, formed by Dutch immigrants but with a serious increase of other ethnic groups the Equal Rights Party seeks to balance the plethora of ethnicities within the Federation to create a fair and equal society without any form of racism or discrimination.

Political Spectrum: Center
Ideology: Liberalism

Main Election Promises:
-Decrease the unemployment rate to at least 5% from the current 8%
-Severely cut the budget of the Department of Defense
-Decrease involvement of the Athenian Federation into international pacts and agreements

[b]The Dove Party[/b]
The Dove Party is a political group inspired by pacifist movements of the past, it seeks a higher state within the world and the formation of a new order not build around a strong rifle but around strong words. Due to its ideology both the party as its electorate mostly consist of people between the ages of 18 and 30.

Political Spectrum: Center-Left
Ideology: Pacifism

Main Election Promises:
-Decrease the military to a 100,000 man force with the constitutional ban to interfere in other nations
-Improve healthcare, education and the social security system
-Open up some government controlled industries to the private sector but under extensive regulation

[b]Green Party[/b]
The Green Party is an environmentalist and socialist group seeking to create a cleaner and better Federation, perhaps even world. It was originally formed by some smaller environmentalist groups and does not enjoy too much support from the electorate.

Political Spectrum: Left
Ideology: Environmentalism/Hellenic Socialism

Main Election Promises:
-Make any kind of animal cruelty equally punishable as a similar offense to humans
-Import means of producing fusion power and other cleaner sources of energy to replace the last poluting power plants left
-Decrease involvement of the Hellenic Armed Forces to the world and decrease budget of the Department of Defense
[b]
Hellenic Pride Party[/b]

Created to counter the Slavic Unity Party the Hellenic Pride Party considers the Greek ethnicity superior to all and advocates it being recognized as such by law. In addition it advocates segregation in public places and stopping immigration. The party itself is currently facing a trial by the Supreme Court to rule on its legitimacy, it is also suspected of having links with several extreme-right militias.

Political Spectrum: Extreme-Right
Ideology: Fascism

Main Election Promises:
-Stopping all immigration
-Creating an ethnic database where the ethnicities of a person are recorded until the 3rd generation before
-Withdraw from all international agreements
-Improve funding to the Hellenic Army to make an elite force of soldiers

[Sigurd Odinnson]

[quote]Liberal Union
Created from a young union of the Athenian Capitalist Union and right parties from the New Palma Republic the Liberal Union is a party seeking to put more attention on the individual and limit the meddling of government with the people themselves.

Political Spectrum: Right
Ideology: Liberalism/Capitalism

Main Election Promises:
-Implement a flat tax of 30% for all incomes rather than the existing progressive system
-Open up all government industries to the private sector
-Decrease deployed military and increase domestic police
-Drastically cut the amount of departments and government personnel[/quote]

OOC: Finally, someone who uses the word 'Liberal' correctly!

IC: Friedland does not wish to interfere with the due process of another sovereign state, and so will not encourage any single party in these elections, but hopes that the history and tradition of the Hellenic nation is served and wishes peace and prosperity as the result of these new elections.

[JEDCJT]

"The Dove Party has our support. This is all."

[The FSM]

Reports of fascist elements involved in the Athenian electoral process has become fodder for a number of hawkish pundits on Sicilian opinion shows and talk radio. The opinion of these pundits is that Sicily must begin to prepare for the overthrow of the Athenian government by fascists and ways to prevent this fascist revolution they expect to arrive from reaching Sicily.

Most people pay no attention.

[Centurius]

With initial polls coming in a large grow towards the fascist sides of the political system have been found an interesting development considering the normal very open attitude towards other cultures the Hellenic state maintains in response a spokesperson from the ASA said the following.

"It is incredibly dustbring that both the Slavic Unity Party as Hellenic Pride Party have so much support while they advocate fascist policies of hate and intolerance. Should the ASA be part of a future coalition government we will make it our goal to correct this situation and help cultures interact"

[Germanic Republic]

President Kunis of the FRA (Progressive Way Party) expressed his dismay at the trend in the election, and remarked that the Socialists were "preferable to the fascists, in any circumstance."

[Centurius]

OOC: http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=82847&st=20&gopid=2431730&#entry2431730 Elections closed and results posted.