[1682 Election] Parliamentary Campaign Thread

[Marco Zimmer]

Speech at ‘festival de musica de Alduria’ in Narbonne, Asuara

Crowd cheers as Marco takes the stage after a musical act

Thank You for having me here today, sorry about interrupting your festival and you can get back to listening to some music shortly!

Firstly, if you can see that graffiti that someone has done over there, it has a message for the Aldurian National Alliance. It says ‘Build Bridges Not Walls’

But politics isn’t just about Parliament, isn’t just about elections. It is about everyday life. It’s about all of us, what we dream, what we want, what we achieve and what we want for our country. And you know what I dream of? An Alduria that works for everyone, with no injustice, no inequality, no poverty! Many people have felt that politics isn’t for them, politics doesn’t matter and that their vote doesn’t matter. But what my campaign has tried to do is bring people into politics, because your voice does matter, your vote does matter. And brought people into politics because they thought there was something on offer to them!

And that inspired me to see so many young people getting involved for the very first time! Because they were fed up with how our country was going, fed up with the inequality in our country, fed up with being patronised and saying they have to accept paying more and getting less, that they should accept low wages and insecurity, and that they should see it as part of life because ‘life isn’t fair.’ But you know what, it can be. And now we are demanding something very, very different to what was on offer before.

And we need to cherish our communities with all their diversity, because everyone we meet is unique, everyone we meet knows something we don’t, and everyone is different. And we shouldn’t see someone different as a threat, we shouldn’t see them as an enemy. We should see them as a source of knowledge and a source of friendship and a source of inspiration.

And if I may, I would like to quote one of my favourite poets. ‘Rise like lions after slumber, in unvanquishable number, shake your chains to earth like dew, ye are many, they are few.’

Thank you for inviting me here, and remember, a better society is possible. We can achieve a better society. We can, together!