Hakklands Government presents : The Hakkland Presidential Elections
December 2011 - Final Stage
Thanks for voting
who will succeed Ùrsula Larsdòttir ?
Gudrùn Magnusdòttir
EPH : Ecologi Parti Hakklands - Den gyll (Hakkland's Ecology Party - the green)
Age : 51 years
Husband : Franz Johansson, 52 years
sons : Ralf and Bjòrn Johansson, 22 and 16 years
actual job : Lawyer
Interests : Ecology, Energy, Economics
Party platform :
- Create thousands of jobs through investment in renewable energy, expanding passenger rail and modernizing freight, retrofitting thousands of buildings to high standards for energy efficiency.
- Reform, revise and rethink our trade agreements. Trade is a part of a sustainable future only when it is fair for all.
- Fix the tax system. Lower income taxes and introduce full income splitting to reduce the tax burden on married couples and families.
- Ensure secure pensions and provide programmes that address health "both physical and mental" and ensure dignity by stopping elder abuse and respecting living wills.
- Social justice and equity are cornerstones of democracy. Hakklensk democracy is more secure when human rights are respected.
- Free markets and property rights stimulate the technological innovations and behavioral changes required to protect our environment and ecosystems.
Astrid Persdòttir
KNH : Konservatieve Nationalisten Hakklands ( Hakkland's Conservative Nationalists)
Age : 37 years
Husband : Mark Lindholm, 38 years
daughter : Heidrùn Lindholm, 8 years
actual job : Mayor of Steinhovden
Interests : Justice, Military, Education
Party platform :
- Reduced the income tax rate for businesses of all sizes.
- Encourage businesses to keep hiring, by freezing Employment Insurance premiums for two years.
- Establish the Hakkland Student Grants Program for low- and middle-income students, part-time students, students with dependents, and students with permanent disabilities.
- Increase support for the Hakkland Summer Jobs Program.
- Establish the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative to support excellence in Hakklensk research and development in aerospace and defence.
- Build world-class digital infrastructure.
- Establish the Universal Child Care Benefit, providing 1450 Hakklensk Kròne per year, per child under six years of age, to support all parents and to respect their right to choose the form of child care that’s best for their families.
Corinne Karlsdòttir
FNU : Fréj National Union ( Free National Union )
Age : 28 years
Single
actual job : Teacher
Interests : Education, Arts, Entertainments
Party platform :
- We call for increased and expanded welfare assistance and increased and expanded unemployment compensation at 100% of a worker's previous income or the minimum wage, whichever is higher, for the full period of unemployment or re-training, whichever is longer.
- We call for a full employment policy.
- We call for student representation on school boards, and for those boards to be fully accountable to students, parents, teachers, and school workers.
- We support full and unrestricted health education programs, including sex education, with curriculum input from parents, students, teachers, and health care professionals.
- We oppose school-sponsored prayer or any other religious practice in public schools, and all efforts to limit the teaching of evolution or to combine it with non-scientific theories.
- We support the right to choose or refuse medical treatment, the right to die, and the right to assisted suicide.
- We call for public ownership and worker control of the airline industry.
Torsten Haraldsson
SDP : Social Demokratisk Parti (Social Democratic Party)
Age : 53 years
wife : Lisa Haraldsson, 52 years
son : Gunnar Haraldsson, 20 years
actual job : Mayor of Angelholm (his birthplace)
Interests : Economics, International trade, Military
Party platform :
- The cornerstones of the government's economic policy are a credible economic programme and four-year fiscal strategy which aims at balancing the budget within an acceptable period, together with co-operation with the social partners on a new stability pact.
- Create the conditions for relaxation of currency controls and a rapid lowering of interest rates.
- Favourable operating conditions for businesses, in order to safeguard jobs and create the premises for their increase once more.
- Defending the welfare system as far as possible.
- Encourage foreign direct investment.
- The Domestic Debt Advisory Service will be further reinforced if necessary to eliminate waiting lists for consultation and assistance in restructuring debts of households and individuals facing payment difficulties. Care will be taken specifically to ensure access by residents of non-urban areas to its services.
- Suitable health care services will be provided at the appropriate level, regardless of financial situation or residence.
- An action plan for children and youth will be implemented.
