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The Satoma Post
National Primary Finishes With Surprising Results
By Loren Delaro
Results have come in from Alvero's nationwide primary, with a couple interesting and tight races.
First let's talk about the unsurprising. Adela Gallego has secured her party's nomination for a third term as leader of the Labor party. Gallego faced little competition with the only challenger being controversial figure Pascal Velares getting only 13% of the vote. Gallego campaigned on a platform of expanding the Gravian Prosperity Program, a universal basic income program trialed province wide in Gravia, nationwide. She also campaigned on reforming the healthcare system with her proposed Accessible Healthcare Act which seeks to nationalize hospitals and clinics nationwide and set a ten year goal to build accessible hospitals and clinics in the neglected rural regions of Alvero where the nearest hospital can be as far as two hours away.
Rupert Howard, current leader of the Conservative Party, faced a tough re-election with two major contenders challenging him for the party's leadership role. Eduard Celaro had been neck and neck with Howard in recent polls, with both polling 34%. But in a surprise upset, Roman Numos squeaked a narrow win of the party's nomination when he was polling at 22%. Numos, a former member of the Alvero First party, ran a populist campaign with a platform of curbing immigration, protectionism, and requiring term limits.
Eduard Galenz of the Liberal Party, a member of the party's social liberal faction, was challenged by Anton Bruno, a member of the party's Libertarian faction. Galenz won a narrow victory with his focus on building a new free trade agreement in the Gervase Bay region, and expanding low interest loans to private college for students below the poverty line.
Stella Carrero faced no serious challengers and won her re-election as leader of the Green Party with ease. The focus of her campaign was her People's Energy Act, which seeks to nationalize Alvero's energy infrastructure as well as the oil and coal production, with the goal of transitioning to 100% clean energy by 2032.
Richard Johnson of the Alvero First party, who repeatedly called for criminalizing Alvero's sex work industry and denounced homosexuality as being "degenerate", had declined to seek re-election after being caught soliciting prostitution from a male "catboy" sex worker, sending a shockwave through the party's socially conservative members. Vincent Alaro and Albin Septarus faced off in a tight race with Alaro winning by a four point margin. Alaro ran on curbing immigration by reducing work visas and deporting any immigrant convicted of any crime, and building a new border security agency.
Juan Vincente of the Communist party had faced a challenge from Ella Singh, but narrowly came out ahead. Vincent campaigned on the abolition of private property and ending Alvero imperialism abroad.
The election will be held on December 3rd.
You can view more information about the parties at this link:
Labor Party
Leader: Adela Gallego
Color: Red
Ideology: Center-left; Social Democratic; Democratic Socialist
The Labor party was founded by modern Alvero's founding father August Marx. It has been the ruling party for all three terms of Alveran history, and has had to form a coalition with the Green party in the last two election to gain a majority to get legislation passed. The party is primarily a Social Democratic party, but there are sizeable Democratic Socialist and Social Liberal factions in the party.
Conservative Party
Leader: Roman Numos
Color: Blue
Ideology: Center-right; Conservative
The Conservative Party has been the leading opposition party since modern Alvero's founding. It has yet to build a coalition to challenge Labor's rule over parliament. The Conservative party has tended to ally itself with the Liberal Party, and sometimes Alvero First when it has to. There is also a sizeable religious and nationalist factions in the party.
Liberal Party
Leader: Eduard Galenz
Color: Yellow
Ideology: Center; Social liberal; Libertarian
The Liberal Party is the third largest party in Alvero and has tended to ally itself with the Conservative party. The liberal party describes themselves as moderates who are socially progressive. The party is primarily social liberal with a sizeable Libertarian faction in the party as well.
Green Party
Leader: Stella Carrero
Color: Green
Ideology: Left; Green; Eco-Socialist
The Green Party is the fourth largest party in Alvero and has been a part of the majority coalition led by the Labor Party in the past two governments. Green is focused on environmental issues and tends to be on the left.
Alvero First
Leader: Vincent Alaro
Color: Orange
Ideology: Far Right; Nationalist
Alvero First is the fifth largest party in Alvero and sometimes serves as part of the opposition coalition led by the Conservative Party. The party founded after a split with Conservative politicians at the Conservative party's founding. They have not received any sizeable amount of seats and are considered a fringe party.
Communist Party
Leader: Juan Vicente
Color: Maroon
Ideology: Far Left; Communist
The Communist Party is the sixth largest party in Alvero. They have yet to serve in any coalition. They have very few seats and are considered a fringe party.
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