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Indeed it is heartening to know there are still other true patriots during these dark times. And if what you say is true then I'll gladly support you as a candidate next elections!
Also I announce that while I cannot vote yet, I don't believe there are any good candidates at the time so I wouldn't have voted for anyone anyways. I do not support either the socialist working class trade unionists or the aristocratic liberal capitalists who would both tear apart the nation with their squabbles. Imagine a world without the Frente Nacional and their followers! It would be either a socialist world with no god, individual thought or moral values, or a heartless place dominated by corporations and the worship of money and competition and excessive individualism. Only the Frente Nacional can balance both worlds out, with both moralism and economic interventionism. We are not siding with the working classes or the higher stratas, we are siding with both, undivisable under the concept of nation. We side with Chile.
Chile para los Chilenos!
Gabriel Tottenheim, fascist.
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I apologize profusely, Senor Montenegro. It is heartening to hear that the diputado and last Presidente of the great era has survived, and your crafty and wily nature was not betrayed by your time in office. It would be hard for a man to prove himself in such dark times, but you did your best and, more importantly, survived the ensuing purge of heroes. On a related note, I believe that this is a fitting title for the horrendous murders following the unlawful radical coup. Thus, I recommend that the Frente Nacional adopt a party stance of demanding reparations for the "Purge of Heroes" immediately.
We shall stand together and persevere against injustice, crusaders of the truth in a time of universal deceit.
Senator Hernan de Escovedo
We shall stand together and persevere against injustice, crusaders of the truth in a time of universal deceit.
Senator Hernan de Escovedo
We shall also seek compensation and pardons for the unfair trials of 1917, most of whom were show trials and were unilateral and unfair. We must avenge our heroes. Therefore I want to create the "Hidalgo Bill" (in name of our great marshall and fascist war hero) lead by members of the Frente Nacional that seeks compensation for the loss of our national heroes.
"Hidalgo Bill"
1. The government will conmemorate the military victories of the Frente Nacional government against French, Brazilian and American forces with a national holiday (day of the flag).
2. The government will abstain from giving impartial views in history lessons in public schools about the Frente Nacional government and it's actions. (Every citizen is free to choose what to believe in and what not to believe in).
3. The Supreme Court will give the widows and the orphans of the unilateral and unfair trials held in 1917 (where Augusto Santa Rosa, Archbishop Fernandez and other lead figures in the Frente Nacional were declared guilty with little to no evidence and unclear claims and clear political motivations) some monetary compensation.
4. The government will allow Frente Nacional militants to use the Yellow, White and Blue flag every year during the conmemoration of former Caudillo Mateo Saez's assasination.
"Hidalgo Bill"
1. The government will conmemorate the military victories of the Frente Nacional government against French, Brazilian and American forces with a national holiday (day of the flag).
2. The government will abstain from giving impartial views in history lessons in public schools about the Frente Nacional government and it's actions. (Every citizen is free to choose what to believe in and what not to believe in).
3. The Supreme Court will give the widows and the orphans of the unilateral and unfair trials held in 1917 (where Augusto Santa Rosa, Archbishop Fernandez and other lead figures in the Frente Nacional were declared guilty with little to no evidence and unclear claims and clear political motivations) some monetary compensation.
4. The government will allow Frente Nacional militants to use the Yellow, White and Blue flag every year during the conmemoration of former Caudillo Mateo Saez's assasination.
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A world without Frente Nacional would be an overall much better world. Sure, you've still got bad people, but it's the best of both worlds. You are the people who seek to extinguish freedom and liberty. If I could do so without breaking the law, then I would throw you into a world of hurt. And why is religion such an important matter anyways? It is not really concerned with worldly matters at all, more like otherworldly matters. And such matters do not matter here in the real world at all.
- Mantiago Retruécano
If Frente Nacional wish to be seen as a legitimate party in the future, they need to stop this Dictator worshiping.
I agree that if the Frente Nacional is to become a legitimate party, it has to stop worshiping their dictator, he committed many crimes against the people of Chile and should never be worshiped.
Ernesto F. Fuentes has married his fiance, Maria Constanza Gigliano, the rich Italian heiress to Gigliano Steel Company
"I wish the best for your marriage, and I hope that you will see the light and turn away from this pointless democracy. You used to be a good man; do not let posterity remember you as a bad one."
Sebastian Montenegro
Sebastian Montenegro
"Thank you Senor Montenegro, I am lucky to marry a woman like her, she is only 38 yet I am 70!"
~ Ernesto F. Fuentes
~ Ernesto F. Fuentes
The Frente will become a legitimate party and will hold in high regard its roots. However we will not attempt any antidemocratic seizure of the government or anything dangerous, we just wish to stand for conservative/christian values in chilean politics.
But we wish to close these issues that have left us in shock.
But we wish to close these issues that have left us in shock.
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I apologize for my recent silence; some family business arose in Italy and I had to devote my energies to that ((in other words, a computer problem emerged)). I am saddened that the Republicanos were unable to form, so I will align myself with the Liberales, in hopes of forming the Liberal Republicanos or Liberal National union between our parties.
As well, I wish the best of luck to Senor Andonie.
As well, I wish the best of luck to Senor Andonie.
The 1916 Presidential Election: The Second and the Third
While more than a decade of fascist rule had failed to strip the Chilean population of its enthusiasm for democracy, it had succeeded in suppressing the development and advancement of the political party system while the world had changed. This was particularly visible in the primaries: the Comunistas and the Republicanos, though both popular and organized parties in their own rights, had not yet adapted to the new technologies of telephone and radio, nor the burgeoning ideas of statistics and demographics. As a result, both fell narrowly short of the margins necessary to put their candidates on the ballot and were forced to surrender the race to the Liberales and Socialist FNT party.
Carlos Andonie the Third and the ultimate FNT nominee, David Bevan, proved more competent with modern technologies and media of information exchange. While David Bevan was locked in a competitive primary, Andonie took the initiative and launched into his national campaign in June, months ahead of the typical start of the 1915 campaign season. His advisors began the election with a bold new political strategy: demographic targeting. Bevan, they said, would be ultimate nominee of the FNT barring unforeseen disaster. His role in the revolution, his vast personal charisma, blue-collar background, and hardline stance on unemployment would all be particularly appealing to voters across all parties. Andonie, by contrast, was a well-known democratic commentator during the revolution only under his infamous alias, and his name was inevitably associated with the previous President Andonie, who was regarded as a traitor by many outside the Partido Liberal. To defeat David Bevan, they said, Andonie would have to do much more than shore up the liberal base. He would have to find and target demographics susceptible or sympathetic to the liberal cause and discover how to appeal them.
Thus, on the heels of the first ever party poll earlier that year, Andonie commissioned the first ever electoral phone survey in Chilean history. By 1915, nearly 10% of Santiago households owned a telephone, nearly a half-million phones in the city all told. Andonie's staff conducted a series of 1,000 calls to random numbers and asked respondents a battery of questions about what they thought about Andonie, Bevan, and election, and gathered information regarding the people's greatest political concern. The poll overwhelmingly discovered a distrust of laissez-faire free marketism and all-around concerns regarding Andonie's secular views on religion from the conservatives, people who might be enticed to vote liberal. The data was put to good use in Andonie's carefully crafted campaign speech in Santiago in July, in which he announced that "unemployment is the result of fascist interference in the untroubled free market economy, a mistake that the FNT and Bevan only wish to repeat." Andonie further promised lower taxes for everyone and predicted a boom would follow. The issue of religion was carefully avoided.
Bevan, who had just convincingly won the nomination after a decisive single ballot at the convention, beat back with another new medium: radio. While the number of telephones had exploded in Santiago, wireless radio ownership skyrocketed even faster. In a half-hour address in late July on Chilean National Radio, Bevan refuted the idea that unemployment was caused by government interference, claiming that a Bevan La Moneda would undertake to subsidize and expand Chilean automobile, textile, machinery, industrial, and consumer electronic industries, both modernizing the country and improving the lot of the common worker. Following this speech, the campaign quickly devolved into a battle over economics: the main point of difference Bevan and Andonie.
In the end, Bevan's popularity proved too much for Andonie to overcome. The Socialist focus on "Bread and Butter" issues, promising a government-sponsored end to the unemployment crisis, seemed far more plausible than the seemingly uncaring liberal platform of laissez-faire. The public was ultimately as skeptical as ever that the problem would simply sort itself out without an active effort, and on election day Bevan ultimately won with more than 60% of the popular vote to Andonie's 32%, the remaining difference going to write-in or regional candidates from the other parties. Communist, conservative, and fascist buoycotts of the election drove the turnout down to the lowest since 1840. The final electoral count stood at Bevan's 218 to Andonie's 87, as decisive a majority on the Congreso's floor as Bevan's margin at the FNT conventions. Thus, Bevan became the first President of the Chilean 4th Republic.
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WelshDude may be unavailable for a few days, so we may have to wait a bit while we wait for his appointments. So while we're doing that, I thought I'd call roll again on the minor parties and see if I can't get better numbers. Declare your support for the Comunistas, Republicanos, or Frente Nacional.
Sample Declaration:
I support the Comunistas/Republicanos/Frente Nacional!
A party become eligible to run candidates when it receives four statements of support.
If it turns out one or more parties don't get enough statements, then that party simply doesn't get to stick around.
I support the Comunistas as this nation needs no capitalists ruining the economy! We need to be a major party and make real changes to Chile!
- Xavier Kvaratskhelia
- Xavier Kvaratskhelia
I shall support my hereditary Frente Nacional, which shall be heralded as a party by the rules of your trifling democracy whether you like it or not, leftists. Now you can see the true meaninglessness of this form of Government; nothing can be stopped, and nothing can be controlled.
Senator Hernan de Escovedo
Senator Hernan de Escovedo
A letter is found, nailed to the doors of the Congreso
Dear Chile,
I have heard your cries for socialism, I have witnessed the startling decline of the free market, and I have ultimately decided that I can do only so much politically to promote a meritocracy. Until now I have harbored dreams of returning to the Congreso and leading the nation into a new era of economic freedom but I see now that my hopes were misguided.
Therefore, I ask the current Socialista administration to grant me amnesty for my limited work in the Frente Nacional during its authoritarian reign. I would bribe you if I thought you'd accept... but since I don't think you will, I will make this deal with you instead:
If you absolve me of all crimes, I will hand over 25% of my assets to the government. Keep in mind that my assets include vast stores of gold and factories. Sure, you could just take 100% of my family's net worth (all of my wealth is technically owned by my eldest son) but would that be fair? I wish only to retire peacefully, cooperate with the government, and maybe even (probably not) become a philanthropist.
---Caitan Crazzio... 's letter---
Dear Chile,
I have heard your cries for socialism, I have witnessed the startling decline of the free market, and I have ultimately decided that I can do only so much politically to promote a meritocracy. Until now I have harbored dreams of returning to the Congreso and leading the nation into a new era of economic freedom but I see now that my hopes were misguided.
Therefore, I ask the current Socialista administration to grant me amnesty for my limited work in the Frente Nacional during its authoritarian reign. I would bribe you if I thought you'd accept... but since I don't think you will, I will make this deal with you instead:
If you absolve me of all crimes, I will hand over 25% of my assets to the government. Keep in mind that my assets include vast stores of gold and factories. Sure, you could just take 100% of my family's net worth (all of my wealth is technically owned by my eldest son) but would that be fair? I wish only to retire peacefully, cooperate with the government, and maybe even (probably not) become a philanthropist.
---Caitan Crazzio... 's letter---
So you are not committing bribery, but you are still attempting to bribe the new government. Interesting.