Pelasgia
Established Nation
ΠΡΟΠΟΝΤΙΟΣ ΛΟΓΟΘΕΤΗΣ
30 ΜΑΪΟΥ 1957 · ΡΝʹ ΤΕΥΧΟΣ · ΥΠΕΡΠΥΡΟ 1 · ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΕΤΟΣ 1846
30 ΜΑΪΟΥ 1957 · ΡΝʹ ΤΕΥΧΟΣ · ΥΠΕΡΠΥΡΟ 1 · ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΕΤΟΣ 1846
SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY AT BREAKING POINT - ELECTION NEAR?
As the junior gov't partner nears internal collapse, the senior partner adopts an electoral spirit
by Konstantinos Gkiones, Political correspondent
The Socialist Labour Party (SEKP) continues to display an image of disunity and decay, as three more SEKP-affiliated Thematic Bouleutae in Mopsia defected to the Progressive People's Party (PLK). Merely a week ago, seven Thematic Bouleutae in Brennia defected to the Pelasgian Prometheist Party (PKP), depriving the SEKP of its majority in the Theme's Boule and forcing it into a coalition with the broader left. Across the nation, the PLK has attracted many of the traditional working-class supporters of SEKP, not in the least bit due to their uncompromising stance on issues of workers' rights and the open and widely-respected charity works of many of its most prominent members, including the party's current President, Dr. Vartholomaios Lymperopoulos. Dr. Lymperopoulos is the Assistant Dean of Medicine in the Metropolitan Academy of Therme, being widely considered to be the spiritual successor of Dr. Gregorios Papalambrou, the man who invented the Papalambrou Cernival Smear Test, commonly refered to as the Pap Test for Breat Cancer; in recent weeks, the President of the PLK has given multiple speeches denouncing the government's neglect of the Empire's weakest citizens, citing the reduction in public health funds to fund defence as an example of this policy, while also pointing to his own free medical clinic for the poor as a model for fully publicly-funded health in Pelasgia.
The PKP, on the other hand, has managed to attract many of SEKP's urban middle-class Social Democrat and Democratic Socialist supporters, importing a Pelasgised version of Varinia's Prometheism. Its blend of high civil rights, high political freedoms and government intervention to use the market for the benefit of the workers and citizens has earned its rallies rather high attendance in many major urban centres which where up until now seen as unbreachable SEKP storngholds, including Telmessus and Epachthus. Indeed, the lack of a unified front to make demands of the Liberal Union has essentially rendered the SEKP helpless to the market liberal policies of the government's senior partner. As such, many of its voters feel betrayed by its lack of any significant resistance to current government measures seeking to reduce social spending in favour of defence, policing and lower taxes, while even those who understand its 'predicament', so to speak doubt whether a renewed mandate would rid the Socialist Labour Party of its sectarianism and the tensions between the various interests and ideologies it seeks to unite and satisfy under its 'big tent' policy.
To add insult to injury, the Liberal Union is already on an electoral warpath, with Prime Minister Sophokles Krevatas visiting his mother's native island of Chandax to reassure the local supporters and voters of his regard for their concerns and his party's continued commitment to the liberalisation and self-strengthening of Pelasgia. With plans to visit other islands and locations around the country, the government is already beating the drum of an election; and with the right and left still largely divided since the fall of the Militarist Regime, the Liberal Union seems like the only political faction ready for such a prospect. Indeed, if the government is able to cash in on its financial, diplomatic and defensive successes, not least among which is the Pacification of Philistaea and the renewal of the Status Quo Treaty, one could very well expect them to dominate both houses of the Koinovoulio, with more than half the seats. [continued on page 2]
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