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2024 Elections of Wonseon
For the first time since 2019, The Republic of Taosun, more known as Wonseon, named for the island of which the Republic still holds on to, will be having their elections. As always, the biggest issue is the People’s Democratic Republic of Taosun, national defense, and the economic strategy.The Democratic Republican Party
Nominee: (Incumbent President) Lee San Yong
-Expanded Social Security Net
-Slightly more regulation of big business, higher taxes of corporations, in exchange for leaving small businesses alone
-Leans conciliatory with the mainland Taosun
-Mixed healthcare and education, public sector available but not mandatory
-Increase the defense budget
-Pro LGBT, protection laws for Transgender individuals
Lee San Yong was born in 1972, in Huifang, to a middle-class family. We went to Huifang State University, the most esteemed public university in East Asia, and got a doctorate in Humanities and Science. He initially wanted to be a Humanities teacher at a university, but ended up pursuing politics, where he gained fame for advocating LGBT rights, moderate left-wing reform in the social security sector, and an expansion of the military. He soon became the favorite for the DRP nomination in 2019, and seized the win in a landslide. Can he win this year too? It’s up to you.
The National Progressive Party
Nominee: Sho Shijian
-Higher tariffs on Europe, the US, and mainland Taosun, promote domestic trade
-Convert from a nationally funded system of public health and education to one funded by the Provincial Governments
-Tax cuts for the middle and lower class
-War compensation from Japan, reparations for WWII crimes
-A new government agency dedicated to the monitoring of drug sales, to peg prescription prices and crack down on illegal drug trade
-Increased defense spending
Sho Shijian was born in 1968, in the rural village of Fukhao, to a relatively poor family of farmers. When she was 18, she started an enterprising new business that sold hand-woven, traditional hats, scarves, and other rural attire in the capital of Huifang. She used these funds to donate to a charity which provided education to poor families and children. She later pursued a career in politics, describing herself as a “rags-to-riches” anti-communist that “was the prime example of the capitalist value of climbing the ladder”. This year, she won the nomination for the NPP. Can she win against the popular incumbent?
The Confucian Party
Nominee: Qi La Biao
-Confucian values of family, pro-nuclear family, anti-abortion
-Taxing the rich, while lowering taxes for the poor
-Invest funds into building homeless shelters and combatting drug abuse via rehabilitation
-Repeal the 3-Child Limit
-Make healthcare completely free, universal treatment
-Abolish tuition fees, and provide education for all
-Encourage family life
Qi La Biao was born in 1982, in a remote village in Southern Wonseon, and raised as a devout Confucianist. When he moved to the city of Saobing, he worked as the leader of a Confucian temple, until he became mayor of the city just 6 years ago. He pushed for Leftist reform on economics, citing Confucian values of equality, while also praising conservative, family-oriented social values with his faith also as the reason. The Confucian Party isn’t as big as the other two, but who knows, maybe he’ll be elected.
The Workers Unity Party
Nominee: Li Tsa Wong
-Orthodox Marxist, pro-centralization, pro-unionization
-Believes in a strictly worker-controlled economy, where Government and Private Businesses have no place
-Staunchly anti-Taosun, fled Taosun to seek refuge in Wonseon
-Pro LGBT, although it is secondary to the Workers’ Struggle
-Disbanding the Media Oversight Council, Wonseonese Intelligence Agency, and advocates for the ceasing of all government censorship on the Internet
-Abolish the police system, replace them with unarmed first responders
-Make prison purely for rehabilitation, and install a Finnish-style prison system
Li Tsa Wong was born in Collective Number 67, in The People’s Democratic Republic of Taosun, where he was a dissident who strongly criticized the Maoist-Pol Potist state socialism implemented there, and advocated for democracy. He then fled for the island of Wonseon, and learned of a dude named “Karl Marx” whom he really started to like. And you can see where that went…
