[ZRT Convention] Recruiting new members

[M.T. Patritz da Biondeu]

Maintaining our party can be difficult due to the evolving politics of our nation. I pose the following questions so that we can work on an action plan going forward:

What can we do to get more citizens to join our party?

Citizens, what do you want to see the ZRT do that would cause you to join our party?

Which of our policies do you feel 'scare' away potential members?

Do we find more value in a large party? Why?

Which parties do we work well with? Why?

Do we prefer to be a part of a coalition or a single party Government? Why?

[Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN]

Personally, I think we really need a way to get new citizens involved and doing things in the ZRT. One reason why the RUMP stayed in power for a million billion years is that they would push forward newbies - sometimes making them Seneschál! - while they were still very new, which boosted their egos but made them more easy to manipulate. Now, of course, we don't want to do that. But perhaps, in those provinces where we control the Government, we could make it a policy to incorporate and promote newbies. However, we did quite badly in the last provincial elections... which is another story, which we might want to include in our manifesto.

As for a single party government, of course if we had the majority we'd want to enact our plan of Republican reform in full, I assume! But I think the current Democratic Coalition of four parties is doing a great job in Government. There are few squabbles - we all agree on the direction we should be going in, even though some are more slow about it than others. I, personally, have great relations with the Progs and the Libs, and with the leadership of the ModRads, even though some individual ModRads don't like my style.