Yes, we can - Vreath's candidature for CP
Vreath
Dear inhabitants of eAustria, my comrades:
Today I am writing to you to announce my candidacy for the seat of eAustria's Country President. And what comes with an announcement to run for the highest political position in this small, proud and lovely country?
A manifesto
You are the ones who are going to carry me into this position, hopefully, as I have already shown my competence and skills in leading my homecountry once; yes, you are right, Vreath is one the rare specimens of the class 'Real Life Austrians' and who can lead a country better than a man who was born, raised up, fed and fought on the fronts against the Osmanic Empire (ok, now im exaggerating, but you understand what I want to say) than a man who lives in this country and does nothing but the best for his country and yes, I was once president of this lovely country and under my regency, we managed to build the basis for a growing Austria, not only in the ecological meaning, but also in the military and demographic sense.
As you can see, I am running as the head candidate of the Austrian Socialist Movement (ASM), a party, which set the inhabitants of this country, the workers and contributers to this country, in the 'social spotlight'. The government should not try to make more profit on the cost of its workers, therefore I am reconsidering to lower some taxes to increase the wealth of the proletariat, secondly I am planning to reconsider the way of distributing tanks to regular fighters in the Austrian Armed Forces, more to come in the main part of the manifesto.
Now we are approaching to my manifesto, and my plans for the coming government:
The Glass Government
In the last cabinet, many eAustrians have been witness of an isolated government, though it was elected by the people and the people have a rightful demand to know what is being done with their money (in this case, taxes) and what they are planning to work out for eAustria. Therefore I am introducing the glass government, more or less, a transparent government. But how should we achieve that? - Simple:
The Ministry of Finances will publish regular bilances of tax income, general income of donations and congress tax and general expenses for the military, mentor programme and similiar. This is to be naturally done by the Minister of Finances but can also be edited by the Vice-Minister of Finances.
The Ministry of Community will have the right to inform the public via BundesPresseDienst (and NOT via the own newspaper of the Country President, like it happened too often under the regency of AEmmerich) of the actions/discussions/plans going on in the cabinet. Secondly, the MoC has to increase the community feeling in eAustria with regular contests, jokes, awards or similiar. More detailled information is coming soon.
The Ministry of Defense will also publish regular bilances on how many tanks have been spent, with a seperated column: How many tanks have been spent for mercenaries? And how many tanks have been spent for the people of eAustria? And how can we increase the efficiency of the supply system → spending less tanks, but having more damage? That are some of the essential duties the Minister of Defense will have to follow.
The New Democracy
Currently it seems that the only real elections in eAustria are the main ones: Congress, President and Party President (won't mention Captain elections in the MU here because that is another thing) but why cannot eAustria charge in phalanx to be one of the most democratic countries in this eWorld? It is the people, the inhabitants of eAustria for whom the government is working and not for themselves - to be in the spotlight for one month, retreat after the legislature is over and claim: 'We did a good job didn't we?' - but, where was the democracy?
The direct outgoing election-system: Like in Switzerland, I want to introduce the direct outgoing elections here in eAustria. It is time that the people can decide on their own what is best for their country. And in this case I do not demand the votes of the congress, no, I demand the votes of whole eAustria, of every citizen with eAustrian Citizenship. Where was the public election/poll when there was the discussion about the Kuruc-immigration going on? What about asking the people what alliance they want to belong to? What about asking the public about their current mood with the government and the whole situation in eAustria?
Sounds awkward to you? - It is only democracy.
The resistent country
As past events have shown, the risk of a PTO or a bank theft are not yet to be underestimated. The best example was eGermany: Their governmental organizations is so flawed that they firstly, cannot
invent a system in which a bank theft can be countervailed and secondly, they have been under the threat of a Serbian PTO.
The Kuruc-question: But what is happening in eAustria now: We are letting some hungarian (right-winged) MU named Kuruc Sereg into our country which is disliked and disrespected in eHungary itself and which are asking for asylum here in eAustria. This has happened once with eCroats and what was the result? Wiped, bank accounts were emptied, we had to start from new again.
This MU might sound trustful to Aemmerich (who would not trust their Real-life friends?), but for me it seems like he is the only one with this stance. This MU is currently blocking any other more trustful immigration (because the congress has to accept ANY member of this Military Unit WITHOUT checking them before like any other citizenship-applicant).
And what about their political stance? - How naive and brash is this MU to put Burgenland (a region of RL Austria) into their logo, under the Hungarian banner? Or how brash are some of their members to post Hitler-favoring articles and antisemtic content in eAustria?
These points have shown that this immigration has been a wrong decision.
Therefore we will, as I have promised above, launch a public election about how the people of eAustria stand to this question. The result will either lead to rating this MU as an attempted PTO, or to a trustful, peace-seeking MU, it is only up to you.
The bank theft-question: Last month in eGermany: Otto von Holunder was elected, a trustful, competent guy with an acceptable governmental programme and he was, to be honest, the 'only votable guy' amongst the candidates. But what happened? As Country Presidents ought to have access to all official organizations of the country, he entered the official eGerman bank account, transferred all the DEM to his account, built companies and exchanged all the eGerman Gold to PLN. After the other cabinet members found out, he was impeached.
So how can we make sure that nothing similiar happens in eAustria?
The CP should not have access to the Ministry of Finances and to the Ministry of Defense. Secondly, there must be a balance of risk distribution, the CP should only hold his/her position whilst the minsters control themselves (regular bilances). As Lenin once sai
😛'Trust is good, control is better'.
Foreign Policy
The keywords for a successful foreign policy are: Good Neighbor Doctrine, dialogue, respect and friendship.
eAustria is permanently trying to sustain optimal relationships with every country, as we are a mix of pro-ONE and 'neutral' we are also highly respected in the eWorld for our policy, but what is to be highlighted most is the friendship with all of our current neighbors: eCzechoslovakia, ePoland, eHungary and eSlovenia.
In the coming month, we have the duty to revanche ourselves for the constant help coming from these countries, we will supply our soldiers to hit in every neighbor-concerning battle possible, of course only, if we are not in danger to lose Southern Bohemia.
That is all for now, one day before the elections are to be processed, I will write an article about the cabinet constellation and the duties of each ministry.
I am counting for your help and your votes on the 5th of February.
Yours sincerely,
Vreath,
Current Minister of Foreign Affairs of eAustria
1x Country President of eAustria
15x Congressman of eAustria
3x Minister of Defense of eAustria
3x Vice-Minster of Defense of eAustria
3x Minster of Community of eAustria
1x Department of Information in eAustria
1x Ambassador to Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia of eAustria
Real Life Austrian
Comments
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Good luck!
endlich ma wieder a g'scheit kandidätele!
o/ GL
Well written! Good luck!
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Forgot to say: Those who want to participate in the coming government can freely write me a PM and I will consider it.
Hurrra!
VOTE!
Interesting, you claim that you will cope with some problems we spoke about with other people in that shout about the law proposal though most of you claimed everything was fine like it is now and cant get better hmm ...
About the bank thefts there is a pretty simple and more than effective system to prevent that but it doesnt work when the thief is the CP though ...
Voted, Good Luck!
Neznaini, that was another topic we discussed about, you claimed we shouldnt supply mercenaries but in some situations we simply have to (see Southern Bohemia). What I was thinking about is to supply regular fighters and to supply in the 'revanche' situation to help out our neighbours.
Sorry Vreath but you are totally wrong maybe you missunderstood what we were talking about in the shout on first place. The shout was about this law http://www.erepublik.com/en/Austria/law/94754 which was stigmazed as "bad" by default and I was simply interested why when the government doesnt give us information what is happening with the money from the taxes or havent conducted something that will show some flow of that money towards the citizens too which in most of the countries is the supplying of the army. From we went to is it useful mercenaries to be supplied in hard moments or constant supplying of the Austrian citizens is better in which I was аssured that its better for us to count only on mercenaries and give the money to them with the slight reassurance that when mercenaries are supplied Austrians are supplied to if the come to IRC and even with higher priorty so OK. My question was why a percentage of the money for mercenaries is not pilled aside until we have a stable amount of money to start some projects for constant supplyment of the Bundesheer but I was given an answer that there isnt a working plan so I got back to when there isnt a working plan why not give the money to the people and then nobody didnt really answer me .... so now you are writing that we should lower the taxes, bring some transparency to what is happening with the ATS the state collects and make things like this so that Austrians can get more tanks than mercenaries - PERFECT !
Im just confused how 9 days ago you were indirectly against such changes and almost claiming there is nothing we can do but now you say there is a way. Excuse me if I missunderstood something but this is how I see things and thats why I ask so that I can find the truth. Cheerz !
Nezna, I only commented twice on this shout, once about that we cant afford to supply ALL eAustrians and secondly that we sometimes NEED to supply mercenaries in order to win battles. I have not claimed that we shouldnt lower taxes nor that we shouldnt supply eAustrians.
You have done constructive criticism on the discussion we had 9 days ago, and who said that it was bad criticism?
But I do not want to have an endless conversation with you again, it is like riding a donkey, it leads to nowhere but frustration.
And about the proposal: It was proposed by a 'shady' guy and it was not discussed before. Congress rules are clear: Proposals need to be discussed before.
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Vreath, I totally understand you but I just dont have access to that shout anymore and it was a long discussion so I cant remember with whom what I exactly wrote. About why I dont have access to that shout ask Luis_Grindl so you get known to some other stories how people act when they have powers : D
Frustration ? Nah ...
Nez, in peace, there are partial supplies to aid in development, while in the important battles, there have been full supplies to everyone that reports for duty to fight. This creates incentive for people to use their skills, developed in peace time, to actually show up and help Austria by giving them the opportunity to get even more tanks than usual.
The only people who get less weapons during such times, are those who have been taking the free tanks during peace, but don't participate in any battles. Vreath is talking about efficiency: how we can improve our results while using fewer tanks. I would suggest that giving tanks to people who are not fighting, during a big battle, is not the way to do it.
Full ack.
Vreath, you wrote an awesome article. I already started to miss some sort of transparency. Direct democracy would be great as well 🙂 You have my vote \o/
Vot from a 'shady' guy with "bad proposal".
If you always follow the rules, there will not be development. And if there were no bad proposal, there were not happen this open discussion.
The proposal was raised to provoke discussion about spending and achieved its goal!
It became clear that no reports from the goverment.
good luck
good luck!
"Or how brash are some of their members to post Hitler-favoring articles and antisemtic content in eAustria?
These points have shown that this immigration has been a wrong decision'
As much as I like your arguement, ive only seen one posting articles, and they were fair.
My vote for you is now engraved in stone.
The last weeks I've talked to several guys in eAustria about the "backroom politics" which is unaccaptble for me. I'm also a supporter of transparent politic in real austria and so I demand it in eAustria.
Thanks for your candidature.
I'm now looking forward to a better eAustria!
@Hydroloc: There was once an article named 'Another reason why I hate jews', and there was a picture of some israel MU supporting a RW in Southern Bohemia.
One of our guys replie😛 Jews are also humans and one of the kuruc wrote 'jews not'. Later, the article got erased by the admins.
Hydroloc - there was one clearly antisemitic article, which was either removed by the admins due to getting reported, or taken down by the writer as a precaution. The writer also had a slogan of the SS in his profile and has a known Hitler-associated code in his name.
You can have such views, but please keep them out of the eAustrian public. That's forbidden in Austria for very good reasons.
was ist das ? sind alle österreicher auf einmal alle englishsprachig 😃 oder sind wir in österreich wirklich alle tschuschen? mich mit eingeschlossen
Nein haris, natürlich sind wir auch der deutschen Sprache mächtig, nur ist eÖsterreich wie auch im realen Leben ein multikulturelles Land, und da zeigt sich die englische Sprache als optimale Sprache zur einfachen Kommunikation.
Politics should not be a factor at all in whether a person is approved or denied, if a few members have fascist tendencies then that's not a problem, but that is my opinion 😛
The answer to the kuruc question in my opinion should be a cap of how many can immigrate per month(26th-25th) , and each should be questioned & voted on.
Hopefully the cabinet of the next president will make a good decision on how to handle the issue.
"One of our guys replie😛 Jews are also humans and one of the kuruc wrote 'jews not'. Later, the article got erased by the admins. "
If that is true than that is outright horrible. Politics should not be a sole factor, yes, but when it comes to admitting, that u'd rather have a certain population exterminated, that is not politics, that is pure hatred. We _must_ have a problem with that. Ignoring fascism makes everybody else just as much of a fascist. RL Austrian history is the best proof for that.
I agree with DracoFlameus 100%, and I still wonder you keep staying in Balkan's party when we all agree on this.
I wonder why you are trying to put our party into bad light, stop spreading lies, Balkan has not mentioned a single propagandic word about his rl ideology since he is in austria, start to care about your own problems before you claim something which is not your business at all. Secondly, if you are already talking about personality in public, lets talk a bit about yours.
Remember last month at this time? You were begging me not to run for CP against you, I gave you the oppourtunity and resigned my candidacy as we arranged that I run the next month - what happened in the meantime? You immigrated your hungarian real life friends into eAustria, having their support for sure and declaring your candidacy in February. Sounds quite pto-ish to me...
mudparty \o/
Don't bother defending me vreath, the man has no sense of reason.
If he isn't calling me some sort of evil hate monger, he'll say next that I am hiding my views for the sake of appeasing everyone. But I'm not having this argument again, it goes nowhere since again he cannot be reasoned with.
I will say here and now the views of the party. (gets the copy pasta)
The Austrian Socialist Movement is a party which consists of all types of socialists, and left wing nationalists. There is no specific ideology other than socialism itself, as we are a diversified group. We were founded in November as a movement, and became a party in December but our members decided to keep the name I had as the title on our old forum.
We have party primaries to decide who will be our Official PP candidate, We run organized elections where members are assigned to vote for an official candidate, and all new policies and rules are implemented via referendum.
Primaries, Referendums, and other discussions are held on the forum.
Because not all members are registered on the forum, I do mass PMs to keep everyone informed of ongoing events within the party.
A side note, we do not accept Cosmopolitans. We are nationalists, our first concern is for Austria, and it's proletariat not the rest of the eWorld. If you are against nationalism(eNationalism here of course), well you might want to be on your way 😛.
Other than that ,respect everyone else's views in the party regardless of whether you agree with them or not, and we won't have a problem 🙂
I have no doubt your immediate response will be to declare all of that to be a complete lie, and say that we are fascists somehow based on absolutely nothing. but there's the description anyways for everyone else there's the description.
Hopefully in the future rather than having four parties that are just controlled by an iron fist, maybe some other groups will arise that actually have some progressive agendas.
Since I assume intolerance is going to follow in the comments below, I'm not going to bother responding further to such ignorant remarks, there are more than enough that precede them.
Left Winged National Socialist? : D
Oh, never saw those articles so I didn't know about them, and Balkan is a good person, don't spread lies about yourselves.