[GENERAL ELECTION, 1672] Parliamentary Elections Thread

[Yakim Beg]

VOTE MELENDEZ! VOTE FOR A EURAN DESTINY!

Election Address by Parliamentary Candidate Fabiana Melendez, Chartered Land Surveyor by profession, she worked for several years with the Iteran Temple Bureau until 1667. Since release from Raspurid internment she has been Co-Director of the Partnership for Prayer and Peace in Punta Santiago and a trusted confidante of His Sublimity the Agha Beg.

If in a position to influence the formation of Government, my promise to you is that the Euran Destiny Party will:

- Combat piracy through the implementation of a convoy system. Our government and the major parties cannot be so naive as to trust the assurances of a Federation predicated upon aggression, territorial expansion, naked rapacity, perversions of body and spirit, and human sacrifice. The assurances received from the Bassarid entity amount to a little more than a vague promise that we will not be attacked at the present moment because they are busy elsewhere. How can the Bassaird claim to have no control over their Bassaird financed and Bassarid equipped pirate fleets yet still claim to be able to restrain them by the issuance of an edict? Either the Bassarid control their pirate fleets, in which case they are waging a war against the commerce of all free nations - something we cannot remain neutral to, or the Bassarid has no control - in which case the assurances are worthless. We cannot afford the luxury of misplaced faith in the enemies of the Highest Divinity.

- Arm all merchant vessels. It is laughably pathetic that our government proposes to encourage our commercial ships to carry "non-lethal defensive systems", whatever those may be, when the Bassarid and the USSO are merrily selling patrol boats, corvettes, drones, and assault rifles to these pirates. As a nation on a tough continent, in a unforgiving world, we need to man up and grow a pair. The answer to guns is more guns, better guns. It is only from a position of strength that we can educate the heedless and godless on the superior merits of peace and love. Every Aldurian vessel entering international waters should be armed to the minimum standard achieved by our Constancian friends to the south.

- Support and fund the creation of a balanced navy of fast attack craft, patrol boats, and missile corvettes, supported by land based helicopter and long-range patrol aircraft.

- Levy tariffs on imports from countries without free trade agreements with us. Unless and until the hand of friendship is openly and sincerely extended we cannot be caught in the position of allowing any old boat from any ten-penny country into our harbours without a proper assessment and valuation of their cargo. If foreigners attack our ships, foreigners will pay for their protection. 

- Establish a permanent cadre to reduce social tension and increase harmony, both in the coastal regions and in the interior, through Coordinated Humanistic programmes of thought-leadership through consciousness elevation, inner peace exploration, and contemplation of the oneness of all things.

- Re-orient our medical system from a focus on servicing sickness to one of creating health by introducing simple, cost-effective holistic health-care programmes.

- Introduce forms of architecture and town planning based around Coordinated Harmonious Principles in order to create buildings and towns which naturally promote health, happiness, acceptance, and prosperity.

- Implement Enlightened Education programmes to create stress-free education where teaching and learning are a joy and creativity and intelligence blossom.

- Create corporate re-vitalisation programmes which will reduce stress and burn-out and consequent loss of valuable intellectual capital, increase creativity and productivity and improve industrial relations.

- Promote the settlement and development of the interior, introducing environmentally sensitive and sustainable methods of agriculture and land reclamation.

- Convene a council of experts to investigate the most viable method of cleansing the mighty River Nouradin of the terrible curse of pollution by radioactive isotopes and heavy metals, imposed upon it by the human folly of preceding generations.