
The Progressive Party of Petronia (PPP) had like most of the parties a very tight timetable with a platform to be created, preparations for the debate with the US State Department representative Howard Soloman to be made, and a candidate for leader of Parliament to be picked out.
As we came to have a look in the morning, the party was preparing for the important meeting scheduled at eleven o'clock which we, the staff of the Tribune, were not going to miss. Even though everyone was working very hard on their assignments, we managed to get some statements from the members of the PPP. Monika Sobočan stated: “We have questions prepared for about 45-60 minutes, because we are a very organized party, which under the leadership of our very illustrious leader Dexter Zuang has successfully completed these tasks: writing the platform, writing questions... so the only conclusion we can get from that is that Dexter is the perfect candidate for leader of Parliament.”
Just before the conference started, the official spokesman Damjan Denkovski said: “We as the Progressive Petronians embrace an agenda that includes peace, prosperity, and security, for the blessed nation of Great Petronia especially in regard to our relations with the Russian republic.” He also replied to the jokes and rumors that have been growing in the last day, for example that the name PPP sounds aggressive. “We aren’t aggressive, we are progressive," Denkovski stated, although it is questionable if this statement is true, because when a party has three pirate flags as their symbol it is surely something to think about.
For the state department teleconference, all the party members were actively involved in the questioning, and all of them were happy about its outcome.
In the afternoon the party started other work. When we asked Kelsi Steele, the supervisor of the party, about the party's activities, she stated that “they are cooperating with the other parties as a part of creating bills.” We hope that the creations that the PPP will present us with will be helping the people of Great Petronia and not only with sailing under a pirate and Russian flag.
- ANDREJ SVETLOSAK, covering for ill reporter Anna Shelestun