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Nationalists Will Be "More Compassionate" Under Feng
Junior coalition partners will temper from their free-market, conservative message in future
14th October 4269


Feng Xinyue beat Wen Bao, son of the NP's founder to win the party leadership

Freshly elected leader of the Nationalist Party Feng Xinyue has announced that the party will adopt a "more compassionate" tone under her. As she launched a push for early elections following the dissolution of the Republic's Conservatives, Feng has spoken about her views on a plethora of issues from the environment and the economy to adoption and anarchy. Having replaced the party's founder Wen Baturu upon his retirement, Feng has pursued what she called "clearing the final hurdle" by becoming the majority party in the National Conference. At present, the largest party is the Lotus Party, who have been the Nationalist's governing partners for several years.

When queried on the rise and fall of various political parties recently, Feng explained that the fundamental issue which has plagued Indralan politics for centuries is what she called 'interest-ism'. By this, she means the dominance of narrow interest groups and their ability to rise quickly to the forefront of political life and then disappear once they've achieved their fundamental goals. Highlighting the 'Green Bloc' as the latest example, she said that the party would likely 'hug some trees, form a government and then vanish'. Nonetheless, the Nationalist Party have supported much of the Green's environmentalist legislation.

Elsewhere, the enthusiastic new party leader promised there would be changes to the Nationalist economic policy, recognising the role that the state can play in a prosperous society. "While the free market has a crucial role to play in our business life," she explained "there are some areas of society where the profit motive can be detrimental to outcomes for consumers and citizens, we have to understand and counteract that with regulation". Lastly, Feng stated that she would be sponsoring legislation to change the adoption process, citing her own adoption by farming parents as "a bureaucratic catastrophe".

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Originally posted by jamescfm on 9 September 2017.