Starting now, we will have a 24 hour vote on New Werpland's party manifesto, reproduced below. You may vote Aye or Nay, or register an abstention.
An union is defined as the action of joining together, an alliance is defined as an association for mutual benefit, but a coalition is defined as an alliance for action. Therefore as a Coalition of Workers and Farmers our purpose is for action with our ideology firmly fixed on the principle of legitimacy. It is fundamental that political parties must be the legitimate representatives of the constituents that vote on its list. If democracy is supposed to be a system for people power, we cannot say it is democratic when senators stand by a foreign ideology rather than with their voters. Senators owe it to their constituents not the other way around.
As such we define our party ideology around how we help those we represent, namely workers and farmers. For this reason we endorse pragmatic centrist economic policies, because the interests of workers and farmers are not ideological like those on the left and right are. The main goal is the maximization of comfort and security for workers and farmers. This brings us to our second principle: communitarianism. Since workers and farmers are clearly a community, not a category for isolated individuals, we see communitarianism as the best way by which to represent them and identify their interests. For example, an individual farmer may not seem so different from anyone else, but the aspects of his/her lifestyle that define his community, those are the characteristics that stand out. By developing policy with community in mind, we treat the average worker or farmer as he truly is. This consideration affects much of our policy, but our emphasis on a welfare state that goes further than caring for individuals is key.
