Kundrati

[Dredd]

[Pravda, Kaesama, May 5657]

Ludvík Otčenáš appointed prime minister, FF surges in membership as potential NRP merge deal pursued

Ludvík Otčenáš is arising as a serious political star in national politics, after giving multiple rousing speechs mostly in Lirnak but also in the capital and in Jildrath, he has announced a nation wide campaign of rallies and speeches elsewhere. Membership likewise has lessened in the NRP, losing aproximately 30% of its membership who have left to join the fatherland front which now boasts 4.3 million official members. Some have wondered if Ludvík will end up running against his own father in the next presidential election, and it seems like a merge of the NRP and FF is a very real possibility.

The president after addressing the economic concerns of the country hinted to this saying, "Its becoming harder to deny the very real benefits of the FF under the leadership of my son, and if the will of the people prefers them over the NRP despite our similarities, it may be best for the Politburo to oversee a merge of our parties jointly run by myself and my son."

Such a merge would secure an overwhelming hold on the politburo forming a supermajority. The FF has proposed a raising of the party threshold to 15% which would effectively make the FF/NRP the only two parties in the country with political representation. Oleg Strnad leader of the NWF party has congratulated Ludvík Otčenáš on his advocacy for state controlled industries and financial institutions as, "A prudent return to the time proven Ordosocialist economics that liberated Kundrati once before." and negotiations on an alliance or even a merge of the two parties is undergoing, should the threshold decree pass the NWF, KPP, and APPA would all be effectively removed from office.

Ludvík Otčenáš upon taking office made his first order the establishment of a government run auxiliary labor group, the "Kundrati Labor Service" or KLS. The mandate requires volunteers or those with over 8 months of continuous unemployment to work a minimum of 60 hours a week. Wages will be less than half of average payment, however the rest will be paid in foodstuffs and civilian products, while the workers will be provided housing and meals during work shifts. This program is estimated to employ 400,000 men and women, which allowed Ludvík Otčenáš to announce resuming the V-8 rail line and even an expansion of it to begin connecting all provincial capitals in the rail network, providing thousands of jobs and promising much needed expansion of infrastructure.



Kundrati Labor Service volunteers, Lirnak province