Into the Unknown - 1987 Progressive Leadership Election

[Kamala]

Progressive Leadership Election 1987
Following the disastrous results in the snap election, Penny Praxbee immediately resigned as leader, while maintaining her seat in Parliament.


T. Anna Blythe

Blythe has served since the first Parliament and has been a protege of Praxbee. She is committed towards promoting a strong relationship with the United States and the UBI, seeking to increase it significantly. However, she also stresses the importance of keeping The Left out of government and thus is willing to compromise within the government's coalition.


Jim Sinner

Sinner has served in Parliament since 1981, and recently was elected as the MP for Montaign. His vision for the party involves a continuation of weakening labor laws while moving away from the UBI, calling the idea, "rather unfeasible." Instead, he says the party should focus on more traditional welfare that only helps the poor, but requiring welfare applicants to prove they are working or searching for work in order to receive aid. Sinner is also socially moderate and willing to compromise on many issues with the Liberals. Sinner is also an environmentalist, and wants to institute strict dumping laws and air pollution controls.


Dominic Clamborne

Clamborne is from the party's left wing, and seeks to tone down the fierce pro-business stance the party had espoused. Instead, he seeks to implement retraining programs for unemployed workers, strong investments in technical education, a move toward greater gender and race equality, and an increase in the UBI. Clamborne wants to cleanse the party's image as an elitist and bourgeois, citing his blue collar roots. Clamborne promises to hold the government accountable by building a closer alliance with the Social Democrats.


Katerina Papadiamantopoulos

Papadiamantopoulos was freshly elected as the MP for Alberton Centre after a decade as a party insider and fundraiser. Born in Greece, Papadiamantopoulos immigrated to Lamarna during the transitional period and purchased part of the formerly nationalized automotive industry. Papadiamantopoulos is a well-known name in the capital metro, and wants to see the party abandon its UBI goals and instead support a privatized investment scheme for all citizens, with the government investing a certain amount of money at the implementation of the law and the birth of every new citizen in a government industry, effectively creating a small trust fund for every citizen. She is also more conservative on social issues, being much less progressive than Praxbee while still to the left of the Liberals.

All candidates are for building the US air base as well as the naval base.

Two days to vote!

[Maxwell]

Sinner to maintain some level of realism.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Sinner.

[Kingpoleon]

Clamborne/Blythe.

[DavidB.]

Sinner.

[Kamala]

Seeing these early results, I'm going to need to know who the Blythe and Papadiamantopoulos voters prefer out of Sinner or Clambourne. Unless, of course, Papadiamantopoulos overtakes one of the two frontrunners.

[Senator Spiral]

Seeing these early results, I'm going to need to know who the Blythe and Papadiamantopoulos voters prefer out of Sinner or Clambourne. Unless, of course, Papadiamantopoulos overtakes one of the two frontrunners.

If it helps, I'm a Clamborne voter and my second choice would be Papadiamantopoulos.

[rpryor03]

Seeing these early results, I'm going to need to know who the Blythe and Papadiamantopoulos voters prefer out of Sinner or Clambourne. Unless, of course, Papadiamantopoulos overtakes one of the two frontrunners.

Voted for Papadiamantopoulous, second pref is Sinner.

[Kingpoleon]

I myself am a Blythe voter, but then I realized Clamborne is the best bet of supporters of supplemental basic income/universal basic income as well as social liberals.