[BOK] Do you want a job in the government? (Running for CP)
Boklevski
Introduction
I am running again for President. After seeing my last campaign and vision, the Independent Party has decided to immediately put me up for candidate again. This gave me a lot of time to think about what to set as goals.
Main “MUST ACHIEVE” goals
My two main goals are things that have gone terribly wrong the last months: I want to achieve a CP that listens to Congress and full transparency. Note that I am not blaming anybody, but I would like to give two examples to support my vision:
We have a law that advises the CP/PM to publish their articles in a separate official newspaper. (To be exactly: “To strongly advise all official government public announcements only to be made into the existing official government newspaper, and not their personal newspapers.”) This law was accepted with 15 YES and 8 NO: almost 2/3 majority. Still, numerous official articles have been published in personal newspapers. A President should not put such a strongly supported advice besides him, even if he doesn’t agree with it. I feel a President should listen to the Congress Members that are elected directly by the people! As President, I will carefully listen to the Congress. I will also raise polls on the forum to obtain advice of all UNL citizens: it’s fun to participate, whoever you are!
Transparency has also had a lot of points in time where it went wrong. Last time was that I woke up and we suddenly “owned” a huge part of England. Without going into detail about the motives and possible impact on our future, I was shocked to find no explanation at all. I didn’t even know if England was still on our (Phoenix) side! Fortunately, AndreasIsaksson published an article with a link to a UK article explaining what our President had done, and why. For the recor
😛AI was NOT our CP or government official, so this most important news of last month was made known by a citizen – just a “man in the street”. My second promise is therefore: I will achieve full transparency by publishing an article – or at least a shout – when making important actions that will impact us all.
I hope Congress will immediately impeach me if I would violate any of the goals above: a good communication with Congress and all citizens, and giving transparency whenever possible.
Other goals
My other goals remain the same as promised last month, as they are not yet (fully) achieve
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- We will join a training war, as current MPPs don't offer us structural wars. [Note that this will have to be done after the UK battle end]
- Coaching articles will be advertised, so new citizens will see them. [Note that in the meantime a law has been accepted to get this into place; I will see to it that this is going to be implemented.]
- The weekly news will be published again... weekly.
Government structure
If you want to apply for a government job in case I will be elected as CP, please send me a PM.
The government structure will be more or less the same as proposed last month, with the exception that – based on feedback – the Ministry of ERS (former R&C) will remain as an independent ministry, and not under MoII. The minister of ERS is responsible for all R&C activities. There’s still an “recruitment” and “coaching” organization below it, because I don’t think a minister can do all those tasks on his own, and still be fully effective (we all have RL duties besides the game, right?)
I have raised a poll on the forum a while ago about whether we should merge the MoE and MoF. 53% was in favor of merging, against 42% in favor of keeping them separated (9% voted neutral). Based on these results, the MoE will disappear. However, as it was a close call, I will keep a separate department in, so that someone takes over the tasks of the MoE.
I will publish an article with full goals for each ministry soon, and with the people I have in mind on certain spots, but my previous article gives a good illustration already.
GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE:
Some proposed government members are already know, like AndreasIsaksson (Prime Minister), Tim Veltkamp (Defense) and ArtemIvanov (Recruitment). Want to see the whole picture? Read it in the "Appendix": http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-bok-appendix-government-1437459/1/20
- Prime Minister
- Ministry of Interior & Information
- Ministry of ERS
--- Education organization (coaching)
--- Recruitment organization
--- Science organization (research)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
--- Department of PFA (Phoenix, Friends & Allies) relations
--- Ambassador organization
- Ministry of Defense:
--- Military Organization
- Ministry of Finance
--- Department of Economics
--- Department of Raws
--- Department of State Companies
State Companies organization (SC Managers)
Comments
Looks really fine mate!!!
Now time to fill in the spots! I will take a closer look on your article in a few hours
You've got my vote.
Vote x 2!
I like your candidacy, but there's one thing. You quote a UNL law, but you fail to quote the second line:
"No gold is budgeted for this."
There is no currently able newspaper for the CP. There isn't even an org for the UNL president. And if there were one, I'm still not aware of its existence. In other words: you promiss to buy a new org at your own costs?
I'm considering you votable. 🙂
@ Mattio:
You have a point, but note that I also didn't quote the link in the proposal of the law, linking to the MoII newspaper, because of the "No gold is budgeted" thing. You can check this at:
http://www.enetherlands.nl/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=5843">http://www.enetherlands.nl/viewtopic.php[..]5843
As it was accepted that way, I would rather see the President publishing in the MoII newspaper than an own newspaper, as that is what Congress decided.
We even have unused orgs, like Juridische Zaken, or State Companies 2. As long as the newspaper is called UNL President (or something like that), people most of the time won't bother about the org.
Still, having made the remarks above, I agree with your suggestion:
Yes, I promise to create an organization called "UNL President" (in line with UNL Congress) and a newspaper on it at my own costs. The president after me is free to choose whether he wants to continue using it.
I'm not really in favor of your program. Some strange points imo.
Why are you doing a researchcenter number 2? When i started with my research center you used MY stats to start a debate, write the article with all of the glory.
Like you steal my idea.
@ Garmr: It's ofcouse good possible that you (or anybody else) doesn't agree with all my points (or doesn't agree at all with my points). Which points exactly don't you agree on?
MaartenW can't go into new gov :3
MaartenW: of all those empty spots, you can't pick ONE?!
Good, then I'll just assign one to you. And you'll just have to do it; don't pretend you're busy RL... 😛
>I feel a President should listen to the Congress Members that are elected directly by the people!
President is elected by the people as well.
Aside from that, you just have points that any gov will have I believe, it were things that went wrong last period. So you have nothing that really stands out, to be able to differ yourself from other candidates.
/Garmr
@ Garmr: Thanks for clarifying your statement!
I agree that the president is elected by the people as well, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't listen to Congress advices, in my opinion. As he's elected by all people, he should listen to them directly as well, by the way, that's why I will raise more polls on the forum (to enhance involvement, and hopefully also activity).
I think doing things right that went wrong last month is a good start for any CP. Besides that, I do have unique points, like:
* having a SS for each area under the ERS minister, instead of only one SS, like in current MoRC. (This is to divide workload, as I think it's a really important issue in UNL)
* raising polls; not many are raised on the forum at the moment
* creating a CP org. + newspaper
Good luck Boklevski. You're a real constant factor in the eUNL, always ready with advice and a positive attitude. While you're not a member of the political party that I support, I still appreciate your work 🙂