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**Seraph** · 05-09-2016, 06:18 PM

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Holding to the Path: Examining the Promises of Roalwim Tavalad.

Opinion

Qassa Ralya-Yukharo, Akhorn, 9th May, 2016.

It has been a less than two weeks since Roalwim Tavalad, Erinor’s Progressive Party, won an unprecedented 82 of 128 eight parliamentary seats in the 28th April General Election. The dust from that landslide victory has only just begun to settle, but already a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of how the new government intends to operate during its three-year term.

As Anturin Vrassad was the first to report, Sirea Fasya-Akhando, the new Sityara of Foreign Affairs, has already begun talks with one of the Western Continent’s most powerful and influential nations, the Anarcho-Pacifist Technocracy of Hammerstar, in line with the ambitious plans of newly inaugurated Ura’sia, Yena Yamera-Hyudo. She restated those plans - to put Erinor right in the centre of international politics - in her inaugural speech and, whilst the final details of what was actually discussed during the talks with Hammerstar has yet to be released, they are an unambiguous as evidence that Roalwim Tavalad is not afraid to put its money where its mouth is, and is not planning to waste any time before doing so.

But how much can we extrapolate this single incident to the entirety of a three year term, and how much difference will the new government’s many manifesto promises actually make to the day-to-day life of Erinorans? It’s no secret that the RT’s popularity has been in no small part due to those promises, covering everything from a major overall of the current welfare system, through the creation of a National Health Service to the abolition of the upper (unelected) house of parliament. All these promises were scoffed at by Syemarar Arutyarcad, the Erinoran Conservatives, as being prohibitively expensive, open to abuse and a drain on the individual’s right to do what they want with their money. The people chose to believe otherwise and now the SA have been forced to make an extremely uneasy alliance with Massa e Sereva, the Serevan Nationalist Party, to create a credible opposition.

Unlikely as such a pairing may seem, it could yet prove to be a thorn in the Ura’sia’s side. If the SA choose to appeal directly to the nationalists - and there are a number amongst them who have already expressed a desire to make those ties - then the government will have a real battle on its hands. The conservative SA government caved to pressure from Serevan nationalists back in 2013 with great reluctance when they allowed for the creation of the Serevan Autonomous Region, but that very action might now be their way back into government. The RT can make no such claims and their manifesto was conspicuously devoid of further concessions to the Serevan minority.

It may be that progressive policies set out in the RT manifesto will come to pass and, by making Erinor a better place to live, will benefit Serevans enough to keep the nationalists on their side, but it seems more likely that this is an issue that will linger in the background of this government’s time in office, turning those who could be allies into dangerous enemies. Time will tell.