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[TUP] Pick a dictator, any dictator

Day 2,714, 16:22 • Published in United Kingdom

• by VoodooMike71

+++UPDATES!+++
The original article is below. This section is for updates as new stuff happens.

> The Constitution Act was passed by Congress. We are now into the three day nominations period.

> WRP are officially supporting Woldy.

> No new candidates have come forward.

> Nominations have to be in to the dictator (Scarfar) or CP (Max Blue/Fatalix) by the end of Wednesday.

TUP members! Express your opinion now! What do you think we should do? Who (if anyone) should we support)? You have a voice - use it!

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Very soon it looks like we’ll find ourselves in the slightly odd position of having to choose, democratically, an ~~evil overlord~~ elected dictator.

Unless you’ve been eLiving under an eRock, you’ll have noticed the wide-ranging national debate over constitutional dictators. To cut a long story short, two proposals were … er … proposed; one by Sir Humphrey Appleby and one by Mr Woldy. After some discussion, argument and a hint of baww, these proposals were smashed together into a compromise proposal (which you can read here should the urge take you).

A new Congress was formed today, and immediately the AppleWold plan was put before us for approval. At time of writing it looks extremely likely that the proposal will pass.

Yes yes yes. That’s all very nice, but why are you telling me this?

Simple. Assuming the proposal passes, we - as a party - need to decide who we would like to see as our next benevolent dictator.

Currently there are two main contenders who have been “officially” (if such a thing exists) nominated. Unsurprisingly, these are:

Sir Humphrey Appleby - proposed by BDPUSP
Mr Woldy - proposed by UKPP

Only party presidents can nominate dictatorship candidates. To date, TUP haven’t nominated or officially supported a candidate. More candidates may come forward (if they do, I’ll amend the article accordingly), but - for the time being at least - the decision before us is a simple one:

option 1: do we support an existing candidate (and if so, which one)?
option 2: do we nominate a new candidate of our own?
option 3: got a different idea? tell us!

As a member of TUP, your opinion on this is important. So let the debate commence. What do you think we should do?

What party are you in? What? Really? Well it's the wrong one. Click the image below to sort it out…

Comments

VoodooMike71 Day 2,714, 16:30

+++STOP PRESS+++
As I was writing this article, the constitution act was officially passed by Congress...

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Topher Fair Day 2,715, 14:06

Guys would you support my efforts to make the constitution a little clearer?
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/dictatorship-constitution-was-written-by-a-maniac--2519772/1/20

VoodooMike71 Day 2,714, 16:37

My thoughts on what we should do...

I think that, as a party, we should officially support Woldy as the next dictator.

Both Woldy and Apples are excellent candidates, and both put a lot of work into coming up with similar and well thought out proposals. The reason I support Woldy is because in the discussions that followed the proposals being published, I was impressed by his determination that the dictator should be entirely subservient to the elected CP and Congress, except for in the most extreme circumstances. This fits my view that the only reason to have a dictator (instead of a full democracy) is gives us a layer of protection against foreign MTOs. Woldy has proven publicly that he thinks the same way.