[1682 Election] Parliamentary Campaign Thread

[Marco Zimmer]

Speech in Ladino AR

Marco walks onto stage, wild cheers erupt from the crowd before calming down as he begins to speak

Thank You for coming here today. There’s an old trade union saying, that ‘the cause of Labour is the hope of the world’. And in Alduria, it’s the Democratic Socialist Party carrying that hope. The hope of a country where the riches of our planet are shared, the hope of a country with a chance for everyone to realise their full potential. And we know we won’t build that country overnight and let nobody tell you it will be easy or that it won’t face enormous resistance from those who benefit from a lopsided society that benefits the rich over the rest.

I’ll tell you this, I believe our time is coming. Time to start work on that historic mission, to lay the foundations of a new Alduria. And you know sometime in the future when your children ask you ‘where were you when our people were left to sleep on the streets because our population was growing faster than the amount of houses we had, when families struggled to afford basic things such as food and a house to live in, when our education system was on the verge of crisis, when people were going bankrupt because they couldn’t afford treatments, when the radioactivity of our country led to some of the highest cancer rates in the world?’

I want you to be able to say ‘I built the homes our people needed, I made sure everyone was fed and cared for with nobody forced to endure poverty!’ I want you to be able to say ‘I made sure that our education system was ready and fit for purpose, I nationalised our healthcare system and made it free for everyone, I made sure air was clean and our water was clean, I helped lay the foundations of that new society!’ Foundations so deeply rooted that no right wing government in the future could ever break them up! And when they ask you ‘how did you do it?’ You can tell them ‘I supported the DSP, I joined the DSP, I voted for Marco Zimmer, I elected a DSP government! That’s how!’

Solidarity!