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Jean-Luc Warquiez Addresses Party Following Election Results


A firey Jean-Luc Warquiez addresses a crowd of onlooking supporters

To say that the election results didn't go the way the newly formed Hosian Democrat Party wanted would be a massive understatement. Despite the best effort of the party, it's candidates, and leadership the election results were a massive defeat and set back for the party. The party won no seats in the National Assembly and their candidate Jean-Luc Warquiez finished 3rd in a field of 3 candidates for the nation's highest office. He managed only 32,855 votes.

The morning following the disaster of an election for the HSP, party leader and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Warquiez address his and his party's supporters.

First and foremost I want to thank you all for being here this morning. I want to think the party leadership, the staffers, my campaign team, our campaign staffers, the HSP candidates who ran up and down the ballot for various different elected offices, their campaign teams, our supporters, our voters, and everyone who pitched in and did what they could and was involved in the last several months. You all are why we do what we do. Why we get up in the mornings and do this. This campaign was about you. This party is about you. Thank you all so very much for your tireless work and commitment.

Obviously last night didn't go our way. It didn't go the way that we wanted. Didn't go the way that we anticipated. We fell short. We didn't get the results we wanted. Over the next days and week we will be poring over the election results and the numbers. We'll be searching high and low for anything that can tell us what went wrong. What we could have done differently. What we should have done to achieve a better result for you all, the people of this great country.

Nevertheless, despite last night's events. Despite last night not going the way any of us wanted it to, we will not relent! We will not give up! We will not go away! We will not sit down! We will not be silent! We are more committed now than ever! More determined now than ever! We will redouble all of our efforts. We will fight harder now than before. We will keep up the struggle.

It is more important now than ever to remain engaged. To keep up the good fight. To stand tall. To speak up and to speak out.

Our cause is not a lost one. The fight is not over. We are not defeated. We have ran into a set back. A major setback, but a setback nonetheless. But the test of our faith, of our resolve, of the sincerity of our belief in the things that we espouse, is how we respond in the face of adversity. We are now facing adversity. What will we do? How will we respond. That is the manifestation of who we really our and the strength of our character. I implore you, don't give up hope! Do not despair! Stay engaged! Stay involved! The fight now, the struggle before us, is more important now than it's ever been!

The Socialist Party will seize on these election results. They will declare they are a mandate from the masses to further wage war on morality in this country. To insist on legislating depravity. To insist on the slaughter of the unborn. To launch assault after assault in relentless fashion on the faithful and pious in this country. To roll back any hint of religious freedom. To chase all signs of religion and faith from the public square! We must resist them! We must fight back! We must not tire in our struggle!

The firebrand continued in his speech where he called, once again, for the abolition of abortion, an end to same sex marriage, for greater religious liberty, for legal consequences for adultery, among other things.