Both major parties have swung into full election mode, with the RSP and NLP battling to secure highly contested constituencies and to gain support of the less political minded Rodarian youth. President Alexandrescu has spent the past two days visiting universities and factories that operate large numbers of apprenticeships, something he has vowed to expand to fight youth unemployment. Valeriu Antonescu, leader of the National Liberal Party has been leading the NLP campaign around the rural south, aiming to shoring up support from Rodarian's rural communities through the promotion of more free market based agricultural policies. However RSP MPs in the region have campaigned for the opposite, citing success over farmer driven agriculture policies. Elsehwere NLP MPs have been battling hard to discredit the RSP government's ability to rule from 2009 to today, citing scandals, slow reaction to popular demand and growing authoritarianism.
The RSP election slogan has appeared on it's website and across social networking, "A Christian Rodarion is a Rodarion to be proud of" has been recieved well. However for the first time since 1955, the vocal support of the Church for the RSP has been incredibly mute, this placed down upon the fact that in 2011 the RSP government passed through the Election Bill, which barred the Church from actively supporting one political party, but it's publications may pledge support.
An early poll published yesterday revealed that the RSP was in the lead by 14 points, giving it 54% to the NLP's 40%. However RodPoll has stated that the RSP may most likely take further lead in coming days. Both parties published their manifestos early this morning, with the RSP under Alexandrescu promoting major reforms to education, women's rights, civil liberties and an end to state control over independent media with regards to elected officials. The NLP for its part remains committed to fully privatising Rodarion's economy, making education more equal, restricting state control over private lives, and it's primary policy, working towards tackling police brutality and restricting police powers, which is summarised in the slogan, "An NLP Rodarion, is a free Rodarion".
Many observers have stated that the NLP has yet again proposed the same manifesto since 2005, one which has failed to win them an election since. Minister for the Interior Radu Hasdeu has slammed the NLP's promises, "Yet again we see the same promises, the same old story from the NLP. Who cry wolf over authoritarianism and police state like antics. What can be said, is no thought, no real recognition of the current day, a bad party and clearly incapable of the ever changing nature of government".
The RSP is expected to lose heavily in the northeast which has been let down by poor RSP government's decision to end to the conflict with Premislyd over Vesarius Province, allowing the practicing of Islam and exclusing Premislydic rights to the economic assets such as mines and other natural resources. More nationalist elements of the RSP have visited the region in order to reassure the voters of the RSP's Christian Nationalist founding ideology.
In a related foreign policy success, Vice President and Foreign Minister Ionela Istratescu has announced that the Rodarian government has been conducting extensively negotiations with the Spherian government over their admittance to the Richmond Cooperation Organisation. In a private summit, both foreign ministers signed the Rodar-Spherian Co-Prosperity Agreement, which will see extensive investment of infrastructure in the ESC by Rodarian businesses and the construction of a high speed rail network between the two, and major trade agreements. One official stated that Rodarion will invest some $5.5 billion into Spherian infrastructure projects and other construction plans. However the Spherian entry into the RCO recieved most of the attention at the press conference.
Tommorrow the President and NLP leader will head back to Romula, to face each off on a live television debate, the leader of the People's Movement was not invited due to the party's absence in Parliament due to having no seats.
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