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Dýnamis Backs Early Election Call as Parliament Moves Toward Dissolution
Despite signs of pressure in the polls, the party votes in favour of returning to the people.

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Helios, May 5736. With parliament short forty-six seats after the dissolution of several parties, Dýnamis has voted with the majority to return the question to the people.
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Director-General Hektor Nikandros, speaking on the vote:
"We must search for greater challenges and face discomfort with all the resolve we can muster, and then some more. When before us stands the insurmountable, we must seek, each supporting one another, to ascend it. It is in the great act of the people's acclamation, in the moment when the nation is summoned again to judge, choose, and command its own future, that political life is renewed."
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"A government that fears the people's verdict has already confessed its weakness. Let the parties stand before Kalopia. Let the people decide who has the discipline, courage, and vision to carry the Republic forward."
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Political Secretary Ajax Mavros, on the spirit of the thing:
"I do not like it when people say do not change. I hope I change. I hope I get better and better and better. So let us take a leap of faith."
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The some other parties will sneer, as they always do, that we speak in poetry, that we love totally the beautiful and good. Let them. We would rather speak in poetry than in the bland managerial language, forever defending what already exists, forever afraid of the leap, forever afraid. They called the honest testing of a man's body, his strength, his resolve, his discipline, before his peers a farce. They called our founder a stranger and then admitted, in the same breath, they had simply never bothered to learn his name. These are small men, afraid of feeling, afraid of effort, afraid of the ascent, these are scared men. Men who speak in slop and congratulate one another for having felt something, not knowing how much more there is to feel, how much more they could be, and who cannot answer a simple question put twice across the chamber floor: how much, Mr. Chondrotsis, how much do you bench?
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Nikandros at a party rally

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We deserve a nation where all persons can feel the triumph of knowing the fullness of themselves, and not be brought down by managerialism or mediocrity. Where all persons face discomfort and challenge knowing their fellow citizen is beside them, and that they can ascend the insurmountable. The movement goes to the country larger than it has ever been, and unafraid. The Dynamic Revolution is near at hand, all Kalopians deserve to live their lives to the fullest potential.
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Faster toward progress. Upward to ascent.