[GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread

[Natalia Cotilla]

NPC submission for the National-Liberal Alliance:

 

The National-Liberal Alliance - 1672 General Election Manifesto

Foreword
Prime Minister Natalia Cotilla

The heart of politics is not the theories of politics or its study - it's in the potential of our people, and how they want their lives to be.

Our nation is young and presents various opportunities and challenges that we must meet together, united as Aldurians. We must reject the aggressive intervention of the state, opting instead for policies that expand economic freedom, secure our country, and preserve our new home for the next generations of Aldurians.

This election is our nation's first chance to chart its course during its first five years. Each Aldurian needs to pause and consider what kind of nation they want to build.

The National-Liberal Alliance has taken the honored responsibility of governance, cognizant that the actions of the Transitional Govermment would set precedents in our young Republic. That is why we have worked to use the powers of governance wisely. We set up a Development Fund to direct investments into our industries, roads, bridges, and aqueducts. We established the Aldurian Civil Defense Corps. We have made it easy for businesses to register and start. We have devoted grants for small businesses.

But there's more we have to do.
 
This election is the first chance Aldurians have to shape the destiny of the country.

As Prime Minister, I will lead the National-Liberal Alliance in Parliament to deliver results. With this manifesto, the National-Liberal Alliance sets forward a vision for Alduria. Our intention will be to ensure that we keep the balance of power in favor of the people. 

Our platform contains no magic formulas or lavish promises. But it sets out a broad framework for the construction of our country, based on common sense, and above all on the liberty and equality of all the people under the law.
 
The things we have in common as a nation far outnumber those that set us apart.
 
It is in that spirit that I commend to you this electoral program, our National-Liberal Alliance Manifesto.
Natalia Cotilla

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OUR FIVE TASKS

This election is a historic election for Alduria - a young, new country, founded by some of the most hardworking people in the world. It is a country rich in natural resources, in oil, gas and farmlands. It is rich, too, in human resources, with professional and managerial skills of the highest calibre, with great industries and firms whose workers can be the equal of any in the world.

UNDER A NATIONAL-LIBERAL GOVERNMENT:

1. We will build a healthy economic and social life for our people by controlling inflation, encourage the formation of a healthy private economic sector, and ensure that the economic freedoms of the people are not infringed.
   
2. To uphold the rule of law, the Parliament, and build democratic Aldurian institutions that serve the people and preserve their constitutional and human rights.
   
3. To support family life, by helping Aldurians become homeowners, establishing educational standards for the education of our people, fixing our environment and concentrating our social services to properly support the old, the sick, the disabled, and all who are in real need.
   
4. To strengthen our national defense, establish a policy of armed neutrality, and work with partners across Micras to protect our people and our interests in an increasingly unstable world.
   
5. To invest in our national infrastructure and authorize the Development Fund for Alduria to accept foreign donations and help the Government of Alduria secure the financial means from which to build schools, roads, railways, hospitals, canals, airports, military bases, and irrigation canals.
   

NATIONAL-LIBERAL POLICIES

• Create a National Educational System, funded by the national budget and by special ring-fenced tax levies on property (2%) and income (2%), that is sub-divided into school districts, with a common national educational curriculum that includes science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics.
  
• Establish a Child Benefit to be paid to families, normally to the mother, for each child, with its value increasing each year in line with prices.
  
• Maintain an open immigration system that welcomes stateless persons from all over Micras, but and extending the benefits of the Law of Graces instantly to those that are Alexandrian, Caputian, Babhki, Eurani, Ladino, Wechua, or Slovedk.
  
• Secure the future of the country by keeping the ownership of our national resources like oil and gas with the people, but opening up avenues for private-public partnerships to create more jobs and attract greater investment to Alduria.
  
• Create a national budget that takes into account the investments necessary to secure the welfare of the people of Alduria, perserve their constitutional and human rights, and manages the resources of the Government wisely.
  
• Create a national income tax that will reward hard work, responsibility, and success, respecting that the wealth of the people should rest with them, and that it is the responsibility of the government to build a system that is simple,
  
• To encourage saving, the build up of capital, and the wider ownership of property, we pledge to never enact a burden or tax on investment income on Aldurian citizens.
  
• Build a program to encourage employee share-ownership and our tax policies generally will provide incentive to save and build up capital.
  
• Ensure that our oil tax and licensing policies encourage new production and the growth of our native industry. A competitive and efficient oil and gas industry has an important role in meeting energy demand, together with a proper contribution from renewable sources like nuclear, solar, and wind power.
  
• Create a Common Agricultural Policy to help our producers to compete on level terms across the world.
  
• Establish rules and enforcement applying to the export of live animals and shall halt the export of cows and ewes recently calved and lambed.
  
• Improved pay and conditions of law enforcement and hire 100,000 new police across the country.
  
• Introduce nation-wide Community Policing, and encourage the extension of Neighborhood Watches to more residential areas.
  
• Present a major Criminal Justice Bill to define criminal and civil offenses.
  
• Create a code of family law that will continue to underpin the institution of marriage, give priority to the welfare of the child, and emphasise the primary responsibility of parents for the welfare of children and the family.
  
• Present to Parliament in a resolution the opportunity to vote, reject, replace, or amend all of the orders issued by the Transitional Government one by one, excepting the ratification of Treaties of Friendship and Mutual Recognition with other Micran nations.
  
• Allow families or individuals the option of purchasing their state-owned homes or apartments, while recognizing the special circumstances of rural areas and sheltered housing for the elderly.
  
• Introduce a right for tenants to obtain limited term options on their homes so that they know in advance the price at which they can buy, while they save the money to do so.
  
• Invest in the improvement and restoration of derelict or polluted land, the disposal and recycling of dangerous and other wastes, and reducing pollution of our rivers and aquifers.
  
• Establish a National Heritage Fund to help preserve historic buildings and the artistic treasures for the nation, and grant generous support to Alduria's cultural and artistic life as the country can afford.
  
• Establish a National Sports Council to help in in the encouragement of recreation and international sporting achievement for Alduria.
  
• Create a health care system that provides quality health care for all Aldurians by establishing a marketplace that provides public and private health care options.
  
• Increase the level of real resources committed to public health services, cancer screenings, and cancer research.
  
• Develop a comprehensive research and development strategy in health care for the Republic of Alduria.
  
• Place responsibility for managing hospitals, clinics, and local health services with local teams who are closest to patients and better understand the need of their local communities.
  
• Implement a national training program to expedite and improve the training of doctors, health care specialists, nurses, and other health care service employees.
  
• Protect Aldurian interests by playing a leading and constructive role in international efforts to tackle the many problems which it faces, and continue the Aldurian involvement in the Micras Treaty Organization and the Apollonian and Euran Economic Union.
  
• Foster all our links with the community of nations in our home continent of Eura.
  
• Create a National Highway System to connect all the cities of the Republic, and connected to existing and future Trans-Euran highways, with its most important ports, airports, and other infrastructure.