Post by Lüc on Oct 18, 2016 16:57:10 GMT 1
Fellow Moderate Radicals, dearest guests, it's a pleasure to welcome you to the
Inxhenéu marks the first time our party ever invites a guest speaker outside the sphere of partisan politics. I personally enjoy his pieces of journalism a lot and I'm sure he'll deliver an excellent speech, with his independent outlook on Talossan politics. While he prepares his written contribute to our Congress, members will find that I have created all threads necessary to the submission of amendments and motions for consideration in the first round of voting (20-23 Oct for the Manifesto, 21-26 Oct for the statutes).
Threads have also been created for registering as a MC candidate on the MRPT's party list, and while I'm on it... may I close my opening remarks by, well, remarking that it may very well be that party lists will finally become mandatory in the coming days, and if they do, that's yet another MRPT victory in favour of electoral accountability and party trasparency. Huzzah!
SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE MODERATE RADICAL PARTY OF TALOSSA!
It's been three years since I last led a Congress (I hope I haven't forgotten how to do so!). And what an eventful triplet of years they were! Our party's national relevance has grown and grown, to the point that a massive amount of ModRad legislation has been passed by our MZs in the Cosâ and in the Senäts, fulfilling a lot of promises we made in our Manifestoes. We have led two governments (coming within a vote of leading a third one) and held pluralities in the Senate thrice in the last three Cosas (including the entirety of the current one).
The conundrum is - how can we keep moving forward, how can we keep improving Talossa and our party at this point in time? Three years were enough for three centre-left coalitions to rise and fall, and for a new centre-right coalition to take their place. In all these years, a mostly bipolar political system (RUMP vs. non-RUMP) formed from a loose opposition and shattered, so that we find ourselves today in a radically different situation, despite the RUMP at the helm again as it did in October 2013. How do we move forward, as far as our position in the political scene of the Regipäts is concerned, from now onwards? With so much of our manifesto enshrined into law, will we find new motivations and goals to better Talossa?
The cornerstones of our politics are still firm. The Moderate Radicals as now as three years ago remain the Reasonable Alternative to the two main political blocks of right- and left- wingers. We call ourselves proud centrists, European liberals, moderate monarchists, firebrand progressives. We do not let coalition deals water down our tenets - we are pragmatic dealmakers that in the end Get Things Done in the Cosa and in the Senate. We leave partisan bickering to others: we prefer building bridges and collaborating. Talossa isn't made better by a stubborn MZ who refuses to bend his will to what in his opinion is an Evil Government/Opposition*. Does it mean we are not passionate about our beliefs? No. Look at the bills we passed: I'd argue that nowhere did we get any less than what we aimed for. We recently got called the "ultimate compromising, carefully reformist party" and that is true, but the fact that we care about what we stand for and are not afraid to fight for it is no less true as well.
*: Ask the Fortress Senate's four components for proof: three out of four were unseated at the first opportunity, two of them by Moderate Radical candidates. The fourth was the senator for Florencia, the only province that has returned conservative senators in every election since mid-2004.
Alright, I didn't really want to make my speech this long, but I think it was in order that we should set the theme for what I hope will be an eventful and successful Congress and electoral campaign. And before I leave, it's my pleasure to announce that the first confirmed Guest Speaker to this Congress is journalist and political pundit
The conundrum is - how can we keep moving forward, how can we keep improving Talossa and our party at this point in time? Three years were enough for three centre-left coalitions to rise and fall, and for a new centre-right coalition to take their place. In all these years, a mostly bipolar political system (RUMP vs. non-RUMP) formed from a loose opposition and shattered, so that we find ourselves today in a radically different situation, despite the RUMP at the helm again as it did in October 2013. How do we move forward, as far as our position in the political scene of the Regipäts is concerned, from now onwards? With so much of our manifesto enshrined into law, will we find new motivations and goals to better Talossa?
The cornerstones of our politics are still firm. The Moderate Radicals as now as three years ago remain the Reasonable Alternative to the two main political blocks of right- and left- wingers. We call ourselves proud centrists, European liberals, moderate monarchists, firebrand progressives. We do not let coalition deals water down our tenets - we are pragmatic dealmakers that in the end Get Things Done in the Cosa and in the Senate. We leave partisan bickering to others: we prefer building bridges and collaborating. Talossa isn't made better by a stubborn MZ who refuses to bend his will to what in his opinion is an Evil Government/Opposition*. Does it mean we are not passionate about our beliefs? No. Look at the bills we passed: I'd argue that nowhere did we get any less than what we aimed for. We recently got called the "ultimate compromising, carefully reformist party" and that is true, but the fact that we care about what we stand for and are not afraid to fight for it is no less true as well.
*: Ask the Fortress Senate's four components for proof: three out of four were unseated at the first opportunity, two of them by Moderate Radical candidates. The fourth was the senator for Florencia, the only province that has returned conservative senators in every election since mid-2004.
Alright, I didn't really want to make my speech this long, but I think it was in order that we should set the theme for what I hope will be an eventful and successful Congress and electoral campaign. And before I leave, it's my pleasure to announce that the first confirmed Guest Speaker to this Congress is journalist and political pundit
INXHENÉU CROVÂ!
Inxhenéu marks the first time our party ever invites a guest speaker outside the sphere of partisan politics. I personally enjoy his pieces of journalism a lot and I'm sure he'll deliver an excellent speech, with his independent outlook on Talossan politics. While he prepares his written contribute to our Congress, members will find that I have created all threads necessary to the submission of amendments and motions for consideration in the first round of voting (20-23 Oct for the Manifesto, 21-26 Oct for the statutes).
Threads have also been created for registering as a MC candidate on the MRPT's party list, and while I'm on it... may I close my opening remarks by, well, remarking that it may very well be that party lists will finally become mandatory in the coming days, and if they do, that's yet another MRPT victory in favour of electoral accountability and party trasparency. Huzzah!