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SDLP and the Kubitchek Campaign; Can the SDLP pull through or stumble again?
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September 6th, 5683
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With elections in November, the campaign trail has gotten quite exciting it seems. With the SDLP nominating Alaiza Kubitchek in August as nominee for President of the Kundrati Union, she has focused heavily on her "Fourth Way Social Democracy" theory, campaigning on a strong campaign of anti poverty, developmentalism, economic harmony and of course, welfare expansions. While specific policies are worth noting, and will be noted, a key aspect of the Kubitchek Campaign has been a shift towards more pseudo corporatist rhetoric, at least in emphasizing class harmony. It's no secret that Alaiza Kubitchek has been antagonistic to socialism and laissez-faire capitalism and praises the mixed economy system immensely.

Whatever the case, she's campaigned heavily on continuing KIDP, looking to enact Phase 2, drastically expand the KCJC, small enterprise grants to promote trickle up economics, and vocational training programs to be expanded in every province. Alongside this, particularly with her campaigning on economic harmony, she's proposed specific policies such as the creation of a National Development Council, which would be responsible for bringing labour, business and the government to the negotiating table to ensure coordination on wages, infrastructure, development and prosperity. 

Furthermore, of course, anti poverty and welfare measures. Welfare is a tricky topic for the SDLP due to the current economic situation. Because of that, most welfare programs are either limited in scale or not possible outright. But, this hasn't deterred Kubitchek, who has campaigned on expanding the Urban Development and Prosperity Program, looking to get a roof over the head of every Kundratijian, child allowance programs, and modernizing healthcare. To finance this however, she's looked to play up the developmentalism aspects, looking to begin projects of creating new resource mines, infrastructure projects, and ensuring that the state will have the money necessary to pay for these programs. 

Whether Fourth Way Social Democracy and Alaiza Kubitchek can convince voters this November to pick the SDLP over the KPP is yet to be seen, but anti-incumbancy bias is likely to play a factor in this election and surely, the SDLP can benefit from that. Whatever the case, this will largely be the real test of Fourth Way Social Democracy and whether it can be electable. If it can, then it will need to prove that it actually works. But that's a problem for whoever wins the election.