[Libertas] The Goals of Congress

Day 2,165, 05:09 Published in Netherlands Netherlands by NoTie112

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Dear citizens of the eNetherlands,

Despite what the recent numbers may tell you, Libertas has a bright future ahea😛 For the first time in 2013, Libertas will be able to participate in the Congress Elections and let their voices be heard - And we certainly believe our unique and daring voices do need to be heard! We, however, do not only walk the path of criticism, we also feel like we - and every other political party in the eNetherlands - have the responsibility to publish a party program, for the population to judgde upon. WE proudly present the following goals Libertas will work on together with the newly elected Congress:

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While the eRepublik mechanics make it seem like the only way of governing a country is by democracy, there is more needed than just the option of voting to be considered a healthy functioning democracy. Several traits of the eDutch state indeed contradict with this and we consider the current system to have corrupted a bit, with several goals being left unreached or even worked against.

Politics are not being executed in-game, but on an outside community forum (the eNetherlands.nl). Therefore most of the decisions are being made there, too. While this has functioned perfectly fine for years, recently it has absolutely not. The older, established parties DemNL and I&W are well seated there, as every party should be, what has caused their opponents to completely shun the forums. This is a very dangerous process, to which both sides are to blame. With this, most of the important information stays unseen by the general public. Another example is the fact we have 2 ''national IRC channels''. Libertas will nevertheless continue involving new players to our eCommunity channels at all cost.

No longer should a President or a Minister be able to ignore a motion (of no confidence) or act without any contact to Congress! No more suspicious plots to cling on to power! We will also demand full transparency regarding financial affairs of the government. Perhaps this money could have saved us some of the hunderds of citizens that died over the last months? Libertas wants a lot more attention to coaching, but especially recruitment.

Not to forget, the issue of personal conflicts. Our small nation has been divided in two extremely radical sides (as briefly explained in previous paragraph). While this is a natural process, which has happened many times before in the history of the eNetherlands, things have gone too far now. Instead of a political conflict, based on political differences, this is a mere personal conflict between several key figures that has gone political and therefore national. We think both camps endanger the continuation of our nation and would like to both sides working towards a solution. In the meantime, Libertas will look forward to form a 3rd, alternative pillar with other individuals and parties who are sick and tired of this political infighting.

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