1) Why are you running for this position?
2) What do you aim to accomplish as thane? As part of this, you must include at least one thing that you promise to do beyond the minimum listed duties of the position during your term. It should be measurable, so that it's black and white whether you fulfilled this mandate at the end of the term if you are elected.
2a) If you are an incumbent running for re-election, did you fulfill your mandate from the last election? If not, why didn't you?
3) What qualifications or experience do you have in the area that you are running in?
4) How do you plan to have the time to fulfill the duties of the position until the next election?
5) Are you currently a part of any other NationStates regional or organizational government? If so, please include those regions and positions.
I accept my nomination and would like to nominate @Svipjoth for Thane of RA, @TGN for Thane of Embassies, and @Michi for Thane of WAI accept my nomination
I accept my nomination and would like to nominate @Svipjoth for Thane of RP and RA, @TGN for Thane of Embassies, and @Michi for Thane of WAI accept both nominations, thank you @Marzipan!
I, Joslisonoria, declare my candidacy as Thane of World Assembly Affairs. 1) Why are you running for this position?Quote1) Why are you running for this position?
2) What do you aim to accomplish as thane? As part of this, you must include at least one thing that you promise to do beyond the minimum listed duties of the position during your term. It should be measurable, so that it's black and white whether you fulfilled this mandate at the end of the term if you are elected.
2a) If you are an incumbent running for re-election, did you fulfill your mandate from the last election? If not, why didn't you?
3) What qualifications or experience do you have in the area that you are running in?
4) How do you plan to have the time to fulfill the duties of the position until the next election?
5) Are you currently a part of any other NationStates regional or organizational government? If so, please include those regions and positions.
I declare my candidacy as Thane of Embassies.Yikes, someone who has more experience than me 😬
1) Why are you running for this position?
I am running so that I can gain more knowledge on Foreign Affairs, and so that TGN has atleast some form of competition.
2) What do you aim to accomplish as thane? As part of this, you must include at least one thing that you promise to do beyond the minimum listed duties of the position during your term. It should be measurable, so that it's black and white whether you fulfilled this mandate at the end of the term if you are elected.
As of writing, I cannot specify what goals I aim to accomplish.
2a) If you are an incumbent running for re-election, did you fulfill your mandate from the last election? If not, why didn't you?
3) What qualifications or experience do you have in the area that you are running in?
I serve as a Wimbassador, representing the region at The South Pacific and and The Rejected Realms.
I also hold mutiple positions at other regions under Foreign Affairs, so I think that I have some experience.
4) How do you plan to have the time to fulfill the duties of the position until the next election?
I plan to take my time, and take things slow and steady. I believe that Foreign Affairs is something that takes time and patience to avoid mistakes.
I am on vacation, so there will be little to no issues for me to serve.
5) Are you currently a part of any other NationStates regional or organizational government? If so, please include those regions and positions.
Yes.
I serve as an Ambassador at The South Pacific, and the Free Nations Region.
I also serve as the Minister of Foreign Affairs at FNR.
More info can be found at my signature below.
@Marzipan, you've definitely been the most active and successful Thane of Gaming in our history at this point. What do you think the biggest challenge will be going forward, and what are your thoughts on how to address it?
Personally, if it is a competitive election, I think Michi would be a perfect candidate, and would have a good term as Thane. However, what I would do, is try and encourage others in the RMBs to shoot for an endorsement. If this position is about the WA, then maybe we should try and have as many endorsements as possible. That's what I would do, but most Michi does is good.
@Joslisonoria, it's very exciting to see a new Citizen throw their hat in the ring! As a new member of our community who has studied the position and could be running in a competitive election, what are your thoughts on Michi's performance as Delegate right now? How would your delegacy be different from his?
@TGN, in one of your earlier elections we talked about the difficulties Wintreath faces with establishing relations with other regions. Now you've experienced some of them first-hand...what do believe we should be focusing on in terms of our foreign affairs and our outreach to other communities at this point?Well this is tricky. There is quite a bit that goes into the opening of a embassies, let alone getting both regions to want the embassy. Plus it’s just another region for Silver to check up on. The most important thing would be time to reach out or have a region that both regions staff teams like. (I’m rambling now lol). But in conclusion; in my opinion there isn’t much that we could it should be focusing on, one of the things I wanna do this cycle is help Silver and one of those ways would be to help check up on regions.
@Altrio, you are one of the rare people in Wintreath who comes with experience from other regions, and even rarer that that experience is in foreign affairs. I'm very curious to know your thoughts on the unique difficulties Wintreath faces in our foreign affairs, and any ideas you may have to overcome them.First of all, thank you very much.
Congratulations and best wishes to everyone who is standing for election so far! :DJust to make sure, the campaign topics are a discord thing, right?
Since campaign topics apparently won't be a thing this election, some questions:
Just to make sure, the campaign topics are a discord thing, right?Not at all, you can make a campaign topic here on this forum, as TGN (https://wintreath.com/forums/index.php?topic=7588.0) and Marzipan (https://wintreath.com/forums/index.php?topic=7587) have. They did theirs as AMAs, but traditionally candidates just talked about what they wanted to do in the position. You can do it any way you want though, there's no set format.
@Svipjoth, two questions for you since you're running for two positions! On the RP side, the rollout of Rollspelskra has been a big success so far, but it's no secret that you'd like to eliminate RP from the NationStates RMB, which still sees a fair amount of RP. Besides just banning RP on there, what do you plan on doing to encourage or convince people to move their RP to the forums and the guild? On the Regional Affairs side, besides moderation and supporting the RP shift, what would you do in the position to make it your own? For example, the last person in the position ran weekly "fun" polls, etc.
since my recent history has been filled with a plethora of toxic family dynamics.You mean there's some other kind of family dynamic? :P
In my post what I said was, "However, what I would do, is try and encourage others in the RMBs to shoot for an endorsement. If this position is about the WA, then maybe we should try and have as many endorsements as possible. However, what I would do, is try and encourage others in the RMBs to shoot for an endorsement. If this position is about the WA, then maybe we should try and have as many endorsements as possible." What I meant by saying this is that Michi didn't do this very often, and I would do more. That's why I said he did most things good. Also, I can't join discord, so I'm very sorry if that means I'm disqualified, I totally understand.
@Joslisonoria, you mentioned that most of what Michi does is good. Do you feel there's something he's doing that isn't good? Also, just to confirm, if you were to win would you be able to join our Discord for Cabinet discussions?
You mean there's some other kind of family dynamic? :PUnironically speaking, relations with my immediate family are high-key shit right now, and have been since about a week ago... It's better now, if not for feeling resolved about my course of action.
@Altrio, I suppose that's fair. Skipping over our unique difficulties in FA, do you have any thoughts or ideas on what you'd like to see in our FA in general?I'd like to see some embassies with other regions be opened with to foster new relations and strengthen existing ones, and probably close the ones that serve us little to no purpose to continue.
I nominate @The Ursian Empire for Thane if Foreign Releases because he’s such a great writerTGN, thank you for nominating me.
Random question is there not a Thane of Werewolf I always thought there was lolThere was, but it was shifted to a Jarlship.