Join the new world

You may have noticed, but I am no longer a member of the ANA party and have joined the new TANA party. I want you to know why this is and how it all happened.

In the recent ANA PP elections, I cast my vote for Stormclouds. I did this because I believed Stormclouds would be a better party president. Stormclouds is an active eSA citizen and a respected member of congress. I believed that Stormclouds would be able to continue the work Philip started last month in rehabilitating the ANA in the eyes of the eSA public. I did not believe Ajay would be able to do these things. Where ever Ajay goes trouble and controversy follows and is created. This is not what I wanted in a party president.

So I was naturally disappointed when I logged on Friday morning to see the results of the party elections. When I had went to bed Thursday evening, Stormclouds had a small but significant lead over Ajay. Overnight, Ajay had been able to overcome Stormclouds lead. While disappointed, my plan was to stay with the ANA, and work to have a better result next month. Several events have occurred since then that have lead me to change my mind and leave the ANA. I want to explain these events so that my former party members can understand why I have done what I have done. Leaving the ANA was not an easy decision. I had been a member since before the August Congressional Elections and considered myself a loyal member of the party. Loyal to the party that is, not to any individual. Hopefully other members of the party will see what has happened and realize what the ANA could have been and what it is instead becoming under Ajay’s rule.

The first event that caused me to question staying with the ANA was an article published by Ajay after winning the party president election (http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/ana-defeats-pto-ksa-falls-the-future-more--985765/1/20). In the article Ajay presented a list of those who had crossed him and that he knew had not supported him. Several of these people were active members of the party that stepped up and were helping to move the ANA forward during Philips term as president. Blacklisting fellow members of your party is not the way to bring a party back together after a difficult campaign. This was not the ANA that I believed in.

The second event was the founding of a new party by Stormclouds – the True African National Alliance. This new party would take up the mantel of the reformed ANA that Philip had begun creating last month. To Ajay the ANA was better without the members who left for the new TANA party. Stormclouds and several of the other party members who joined in the creation of the TANA party were important members of the party. That Ajay could think that the party was better without them was hard to believe.

I still had hope that the rift between the TANA and ANA parties could be mended and the parties merged back together. I hoped that Ajay ultimately had the parties interests at heart – because the only way I could see for this to happen was for Ajay to resign as party president. In the article I linked above, Ajay had offered me the job of Party Press Secretary. There was no way that I could actively write articles supporting the party with the way things were falling out after the election. I contacted Ajay and let him know that I would accept the job if he resigned as party president. He would be doing this for the benefit of the party. I believe that when a party president resigns, the member with the most EXP becomes the new president. This would have made Max Payne the new Party President. Max is a player I respect, and I hoped he would be able to work on bringing the ANA and TANA parties back together and smooth things over during the coming month. Needless to say, this wouldn’t happen. You can see Ajay’s response in his newspaper (http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/suileabhain-released-from-press-secretary-position-987886/1/20). Apparently, it is treason to support anyone other than Ajay. ANA party members, ask yourself this – Do you want to be part of a party that prevents any and all dissent? Anyway, all of this made it pretty clear to me that I was no longer welcome among the ANA.

Because of this, I have resigned from the ANA party and have joined the new TANA party. I wish things could have worked out differently, but they haven’t, and it is pretty obvious that there is no going back between Ajay and me. To anyone who is still a member of the ANA. Think long and hard about the party you are a member of and who is your leader. Is this the party you want to be associated with? If it is, I wish you good luck. The coming month will likely be a rocky one under your new leadership. If you don’t feel right with the direction the ANA is taking, please consider the alternative the TANA offers. We will make a new party that will be what the ANA could have been and should have been.