First Polls In From Cooriengah

As the election fever heats up the A1 News Service has been out on the streets of the Cooreingahn Capital of Ernest to see what the current views of the population are on the elections, the candidates and the parties involved.

To start with we asked them for the votes they would make in the two local seats should an election be held right now. Of the five people questioned all said that they would vote for the incumbent Premier Sam Corby for the seat of Ernest citing that they felt his rival Hunter Johnson was “to inexperienced” and “relatively unknown” to consider being voted for. In the other seat, Outer Cooriengah, however a more interesting picture was posted; the incumbent Member Chris Pendergast was still chosen as the most popular but only by one vote as his rival, William Sparrow, secured the other two proving the generally accepted point that he will offer serious competition to the current Foundation dominance within the Republic. A fact that will further concern the Foundation Party and continue to fuel the calls for the replacement of Pendergast whilst sending a clear signal to the opposition that Sparrow could be good to work with.

When we enquired with Sparrow’s office that replied that, “…at present Mr Sparrow is working to secure his election by representing the people. Cooperation with the Cirrus or Conservative Parties is not off the cards but will not be considered for the time being…”

Returning to are target group we asked them of their views on the recent decision by the Foundation Party to side with the Socialists. The majority were in support citing reasons of “being good for the nation” and that “change would be good” although one did think that “removing the old guard [McTavish and more specifically Fish] from office might not be the best option for the foreign policy if an appropriate position cannot be found for him”, citing the decision by the St. Charlian Government to assign long serving Prime Minister Alexander as President of the St Charlie Parliament.

We then moved on to our final question enquiring whether they would prefer a jointly held Government and First Secretary system or a situation where for example the Socialists held the house by Philip Fish remained on as head of state. This went down in two main ways, some supported it feeling that it would allow Fish to retain a somewhat prominent position in government and in foreign relations whilst others felt it would lead to a difficult hung parliament situation which could derail any difficult legislation that does not reach universal approval.