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Bjorksdattir signals the end of One-Party System
"One Party Rule is Total Failure" Bjorksdattir said
Kalibug, Ananto
August 22, 4116


An exasperated First Term Premier, Louise Bjorksdattir, proposes end to seven and a half year old experiment

Premier of the Republic, Louise Bjorksdattir, reluctantly posted a bill which which would officially end the One Party State in Kalistan.  The Republic's Political Director, Gladys Fran, sat down with the Brethrenist Premier to ask her some questions about the move.

G(ladys) F(ran):  Comrade Premier.  It's been seven and a half years since your predecessor, the late Premier Carrangus formally set Kalistan on a course of One-Party rule.  Why abandon the effort so soon?

L(ouise) B(jorksdattir):  Why abandon it?  Is this your question?

GF:  Yes, why abandon the Single Party structure?

LB:  We did not abandon it.  Given the wide ideological variety of LK's caucuses, it no longer makes sense.  One Party rule in Kalistan is a total failure.

GF:  Why would you say this is?

LB:  We will get to the point. Neo-Conservatives in LK?  Caucuses who call for curfews and the abandonment of much of the dual economy?  To call our Party unified would be a sham.

GF:  We know the idea behind Left Kalistan was to provide a solid unified platform for running the government.

LB:  Precisely.  The idea was originally that bills would be brought forward, we would discuss them, we would work out a set of proposals that would be acceptable to the majority of the caucuses, and then we would move the bill forward.  If this had happened, we would be able to say that Left Kalistan existed in reality.  But instead, Caucuses would propose bills and then move them to a vote with no discussion whatsoever.  We only had an opportunity to debate them after it was too late to amend them.  This defeated any sort of democratic centralism which the initial bill anticipated. It is doubtful that some caucuses, thinking specifically of the Neo-Conservative caucus, would ever go along with this program.

GF:  Would you say that the project was fatally flawed from the start?

LB:  Not necessarily.  If we had had more time as the single caucus within LK before we started having to deal with platform development bills, we could have worked out some of these bugs before their influence was magnified by actual competition.

GF:  Would your Government consider a modified version of the Single Party State?

LB:  No.

GF:  Excuse me.  Would you please explain why not?

LB:  There is entirely too much diversity of opinion in Kalistan.  Kalistan's political system is inexplicably entirely too turbulent, I would say more so than most nations.  We see much higher turn over than most states, for some reason.  A single Party is not suitable for Kalistan-  it just attracts opposition.

GF:  What is the future of the Socialist Party of Kalistan when Left Kalistan ends?

LB:  I suppose this remains to be seen.  We still have several elements which have to be reconciled within what was and will be again the Socialist Party.  We still acknowledge the Labour Caucus within the SP.  And the political relationship between the Brethren and the Socialists remains ambiguous.  We merely have to look at the Lourenne, where an explicitly Brethrenist Party has gained seats, to see that Brethrenism can be a viable political force.  Kalistan has been a majority Brethrenist Nation for more than a century.  How do we square the fact that Brethrenists have served the SP as leaders for all this time, and are having some success elsewhere, but there is no explicitly Brethrenist Political Party here in Kalistan?  This is also inexplicable.

GF:  Finally, what is your take on the rupture of relations between Kalistan and New Endralon?

LB:  I believe Magelleno has said everything that needs to be said.  I support his comments.

GF:  And Aldegar?

LB:  That's a non-issue.

GF:  Thank you, Comrade Premier.

LB:  Thank you, Comrade Journalist.