Imperial Poland; Belgian democracy?
Misanthropist
International news
Poland goes imperial
Like you’ve heard from our northern neighbors, The Netherlands are entirely occupied by the Polish army. After the first battle, where there was still some hope left for The Netherlands, Poland didn’t face much of a resistance. Now our fellow Neighbors are homeless. The question is: “Will there be more homeless countries in the future?”. Back again, Poland borders to Belgium. I haven’t heard any calming words from the Belgian CP nor did I sense any panic. What does this mean? Hopefully some informal conversations are going on between Poland and Belgium to keep the latter.
For now, we can say, Belgium is safe due to the possible future Polish invasion in England. The voting is still in progress. Until now a majority voted “no” for England as Natural Enemy: 6 yes – 16 no. No law proposals have been held involving Belgium. In the meanwhile Dutch resistance fighters are trying to liberate their homeland, in vain.
Nevertheless I call to you, CP of Belgium, to give an overview of our current relationship with Poland. Do we have to be afraid of a war? Are we prepared to join an alliance with Poland? Or will we reach out to other world leaders? Our neutral position is getting unbalanced.
National news
Free choice in elections?
According to the official newspaper we may only vote for the following candidates as Party President (PP):
Belgium for Belgians: temujin94
Res Belgica: Xgentis Lempereur
Belgian Communist Party: Critically
Free Belgium: Thore Thoreson
Belgian PT Party: Kylero
As you can see, there’s only one ‘decent’ candidate on each party. So all politicians don’t really have a choice to vote. According to which criteria does the government decide which persons are fit for the job? Can the government, überhaupt, make such a statement while claiming to be a democracy? Politics have once more turned away from the people and have turned into a select elite. “It’s all for the good of the country”, they say, “It’s to secure our nation from PTOs”. A democratic government could make people aware of the danger but when they propose their own candidates they’ve crossed a line. New sincere candidates, who haven’t gain much popularity but are striving for a better Belgium are condemned by the government. New voices are oppressed.
As we look to the proposed candidates individually we sense something strange. Only 4 people have announced their candidacy in public. Rowan, Critically, LFernandoX and recently A Vegan. These people have clearly stated their meanings and did some propaganda. In this way we know they are motivated. As we look now to the list of the government, only 1 person matches with the ones I just mentioned. The other people haven’t mentioned a thing. How do the voters know what their plans are. How do the voters know if they are motivated? How do the voters know they will be active?
It’s fair to say, these people have done great things for our nation. But will they do in the future. If they think they can get elected without raising their voices, they don’t sound very convincing. Or they must be really confident. The only way to know they candidated was to look for yourself at each party or you had to read the propaganda of the official newspaper. It's not up to the people to aks what plans the future PP's have. They have to bring their message to the people. With almost no explanation the government has selected a list. Question: Based on what?
This isn’t meant as a personal attack but more of a critic on the way things are now.
Amusement
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The Netherlands are doomed…
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Yours truly, Misanthropist
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Comments
I prepared something to be published, but unfortunatly, my french translator seems to be on a strike 😣
about the PP elections: the candidates proposed are made in accordance with the partis themselves. Each party has brought forth their own candidate and we decided to make certain that they get in instead of a foul multi. That is the single reason why we coordinate this.
Decent journalism, nice critical tone - voted!
On the elections - Xgentis has announced that he will run too:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/too-young-to-retire--1637013/1/20
I do agree that it's a bit fishy that the governement is giving advise for whoom to vote, as it's a party thing actually - if they're afraid of a possible PTO, then it's up to the current PP or other party officials to announce their candidate. But we still live in a democracy, nevertheless, as no one is forced to follow the voting advices - you can still vote for whoom ever you choose to (or even not vote at all 😛 ).
I would advice to inform yourself before publishing an article.
This is a normal ATO procedure used in every country that face a multy pto threat.
The reason that the gov only endorses one candidate for each party is because the amount of PTOers is far more bigger then we first expected
Look at the current elections, if you simply count all the votes for PTOers then there are far more PTOers in Belgium then we could have ever expected
Interesting stuff misanthropist, keep on bringing this.
Belgique is Cool !
voted of course
"I prepared something to be published, but unfortunatly, my french translator seems to be on a strike 😣"
sorry are you talking about me?
no, michel, the other translator, I've asked some others to be translator too in order not to put everything on you. Unfortunatly, he hasn't reacted yet.
za obrazki masz Vota 🙂
Belgia wolna od układu przy pomocy układu 🙂
Even though I left Belgium first to go to Austria, but I returned for the stability of Belgium. Then I moved to Sweden which I plan on remaining for a long period of time. Luckily Sweden is a Polish ally, all I can say for Belgium is that you are going to have to negotiate with the Poles to get them not to attack and keep Belgium independent.
As the eNZ Ambassador to eBelgium I truly do feel for you all. Being stuck with a power like ePoland beside you can be a huge issue. I hope the government and CP work towards protecting eBelgiums territorial integrity.
Know that we in eNZ stand beside you in solidarity!