Wysterian Assembly: Election Day 2
Presentation Of Candidates' Manifestos
Alin Rouissant - Assembly Member For Maes (Docklands)
Alin Rouissant is a third-term Member of the Assembly for the Docklands constituency of the agricultural shipping and trading hub of Maes in Wysteria's eastern reaches. A long-serving though fairly unassuming public servant, he is generally regarded as having done well to protect his constituents' interests in the Docklands and having played a part in recent infrastructural and residential expansions in the economic core of the Crop District. Other than his routine work, he keeps a fairly quiet life in Maes, and is not especially known within the Assembly as a prominent figure. Though Rouissant makes few statements of Wysterian or Imperial politics, he has several times in the past indicated that he harbours no real political ambition above his current work - this, coupled with his lack of real presence in the Assembly, generated significant murmurs of puzzlement when he submitted his name for the Ministership. Long-known but not at the centre of Assembly politics, his support within the Assembly is estimated to be fairly low.
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Members of the Assembly, I thank you for allowing me this platform today.
I know many of you were rather surpirised to see my name on the list of contenders for the Ministership. As I have told a good many of you in the past, I harbour few political aspirations beyond my current position; in my eyes, fulfilling my duty as representative of my friends and neighbours in Maes bring me satisfaction enough.
As of today, that position has not changed. I shall not be seeking the Ministership – as most among you no doubt realize, I am far from the most qualified individual available. No, I come before you today to impress upon you the urgency and necessity of selecting to guide Wysteria forward the one who is most qualified and most able, for only then will recapture the sense of spirit and purpose which shall drive our realm forward anew.
That individual is, of course, our own Heir Apparent: Sean, son of Nicholas.
Yes – yes! Please allow me to continue! I hear your murmurs of discontent, your whispers that this is a perversion of both the Wysterian Assembly and the legacy of the late Duke in his wish for democratic leadership. Allow me to quiet them. Master of the Observatory here in Gallen, the late Duke’s son spends his hours scanning the stars: those bright pricks of light, alluring in their promise of hopes and dreams, as yet untapped, out there; beyond. Beyond! Yes, that is the key here; in advocating for Sean as leader of Wysteria, I push for us to allow ourselves to look to the beyond! To look there for progress and perspective, for new advancements for our peoples’ benefit. And to do this with the safety, the security, the comfort of knowing that we are in the stable hands of the next in a bloodline which has led Wysteria since its inception in the study of the elder Sean. What better way to guarantee the great future of our land than to entrust it once again to the bloodline which has never failed us?
So, my fellow Members of the Assembly, let us not allow ourselves to resign the future of Wysteria to infighting in the Assembly. Let us move beyond these weeks of electoral anguish and entrust our great nation once again to the Scrayvens: it is the stable, prosperous, and only path forward.
Thank you.
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Scattered smatterings of applause - seemingly mixed confusion and polite disapproval - come from around the room, then fade.
_________________ Wysterian Labourer's Council Currently Holding Stewardship of Wysteria Minister for Applications and Settlement Forums Administrator
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