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Labour unveils 5628 election manifesto four months out from polling day

Tropica City - Feburary 5628 - With the election just months away, the Tropican Labour has released its manifesto of what it plans to do with a second term in Government. And compared to the Conservative Party’s manifesto released mid-last year, it’s seemingly being much better received by the public.

The Labour manifesto has two main pillars. The first is foreign relations, something that hasn’t exactly been at the forefront of mind during this term, and the second is domestic policy.

The first pillar, Foreign relations, involves the following things that Labour would like to do in a second term:

• rejoin the Luthorian Commonwealth,
  
• Reestablish diplomatic ties with as many nations that align with Tropica’s democratic values as possible,
  
• and enter into free trade agreements with most of those nations too.
  

The second pillar, Domestic policy, is much more thorough and seemingly was why the manifesto came 6 months after the Tories’.

The biggest promises are a pair of binding referendums on electoral reform, the format of which is established as:
An initial ‘primary’ where up to 6 alternative systems compete in an instant runoff voting contest to determine the winning alternate system to compete against FPTP-Supplementary in a second referendum, to be held in conjunction with the 5633 election. The second referendum will be the first national poll under Tropica’s new constitution that will require a double majority of 50%+1 of the popular vote and 18 regions voting in favour to pass. The first referendum doesn’t need it since there is not a binary choice.

The other major policy is the closing of the gender pay gap in the public service, which this publication has written about before when discussing the Conservative manifesto. In short, Labour will legislate a universal base wage of T$60,000 per annum, which is the middle ground of the current average wage for male and female public servants. 

Several other minor policies announced include: 

• A T$500 million, expansion of public or low-rent housing projects
  
• Setting a uniform 5% wage bonus for workers who work on Sundays and public holidays
  
• The establishment of a national rail network by combining all the regional networks on Coromaru and Tapoa, with feasibility studies on linking the two islands’ networks by an undersea tunnel.