2016 Ardokian Presidential Election [DIPLOMATIC|WIP|OOC]

[Ardoki]

2016 Ardokian Presidential Election

The Ardokian Nation Decides — Will Alistair Killian Moriarty Receive Another Popular Mandate?

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Candidates

Alistair Killian Moriarty

Profession: Politician, Musician
Political Experience: Member of the Grand Legislative Assembly (1980 - 2004), Premier (1992 - 2004) President (2004 - Present)
Political Party Membership: Ardokian Social Democratic Labour Party

Nomination: Ardokian Social Democratic Labour Party (Centre-Left to Left-Wing)
Endorsements: People's Labour Party of Aanglandia (Centre-Left)
Political Platform:

• Continue state investment in infrastructure, science and technology.
• Improve the education and healthcare systems to be the best in the world.
• Expand the job guarantee program to Aanglandia to eliminate unemployment and stimulate economic growth.
• Build a modern blue water navy to project Ardokian power around the world.
• Continue the process of incorporating Aanglandia into the Social Democratic Republic.

Dougal Daley Sheedy

Profession: Politician, Architect
Political Experience: Member of the Grand Legislative Assembly (2004 - Present)
Political Party Membership: Ardokian Green Alternative

Nomination: Ardokian Green Alternative (Left-Wing)
Endorsements: Animal Justice Party (Left-Wing)
Political Platform:

• Phase out nuclear energy and hydro-power, to be replaced with renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.
• Stop mining and logging, which threatens to destroy the natural environment of Ardoki.
• Prohibit animal testing in Ardoki.
• Promote veganism in Ardoki.
• Hold another referendum on the Aanglandian question.

Saraid Cleena MacCarthy

Profession: Politician, Lawyer
Political Experience: Member of the Grand Legislative Assembly (1998 - Present)
Political Party Membership: United Worker's Union

Nomination: United Worker's Union (Left-Wing)
Endorsements: Ardokian Socialist Alternative (Far-Left), Socialist Party of Ardoki (Left-Wing)
Political Platform:

• Promote and subsidise worker cooperatives.
• Mandate that private companies are at least 50% worker-owned, alongside provisions to ensure worker-control.
• Encourage and subsides worker councils across the Social Democratic Republic.
• Acknowledge that Ardokian and Aanglandian workers should stand united against capitalism.

Roibeárd Finley Connor

Profession: Politician, Journalist
Political Experience: Member of the Grand Legislative Assembly (1974 - Present)
Political Party Membership: Communist Party of Ardoki

Nomination: Communist Party of Ardoki (Far-Left)
Endorsements: Ardokian Communist Party (Far-Left)
Political Platform:

Murna Sive Foley

Profession: Doctor, University Lecturer
Political Experience: N/A
Political Party Membership: Social Liberal Union

Nomination: Social Liberal Union (Centre to Centre-Left)
Endorsements: Ardokian Moderate Alliance (Centre), Centre Party of Ardoki (Centre), Ardokian Science Party (Centre-Left), Secular Humanist Party of Ardoki (Centre-Left)
Political Platform:

Brendanus Pádraic McNaughton

Profession: Lawyer, Entrepreneur
Political Experience: N/A
Political Party Membership: Liberal Democratic Coalition

Nomination: Liberal Democratic Coalition (Centre to Centre-Right)
Endorsements: Conservative Liberal Party of Ardoki (Centre-Right), Liberal Conservative Party of Ardoki (Centre-Right), Libertarian Party (Far-Right)
Political Platform:

[Hatay]

Only one candidate?

[UniversalCommons]

We vote for a recall.

[Ardoki]

Only one candidate?

When I finish the OOC thread the candidates will be up. Then I'll make the IC thread.

[UniversalCommons]

I confirm the recall. All the parties represent a left ideology with no counterbalance. A variation on the same thing. Even the centre right is calling itself liberal.

[Ardoki]

I confirm the recall. All the parties represent a left ideology with no counterbalance. A variation on the same thing. Even the centre right is calling itself liberal.

The vast majority of the world doesn't use simplistic American political definitions.

[UniversalCommons]

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[Orostan]

So what exactly Will this be?

[Ardoki]

This is not simplistic 5 out of 6 say the word left.

Economic liberalism is right-wing. So having a centre-right party calling itself liberal is not strange.

Now please stop posting here, as I haven't finished the thread yet.

[Ardoki]

I actually might have the Aanglandian referendum instead. I probably won't have time to do both.