Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Getting Involved: What's New in the Climate Change Party?

The environment group, rumored to be called the ACP but yet not officially named, was asked to give the Tribune a statement about their platform and a confirmation of the name. However, we have yet to receive these facts. As soon as we get the required statement, the Tribune will bring you this breaking news. Despite the missing major information, the spokesperson gave a short statement to a member of the press team. The leadership of the party was released and we exclusively bring you the list of representatives. The elected party leader is Nicole Vournazos. For the role of the public relations person (PRP), the party chose Lauren Howard. To advertise the party's plan and to make the public aware of its opinions, Karina Fateyeva was chosen to be the leader of propaganda.

Good relations are very important in preventing trouble and endless debates in the Parliament. Therefore, the party selected two members to cover each party's interests. These chosen members have to cooperate closely with the chief negotiator (Liaison), Lillian Xie.

After this short but important statement, we managed to get an interview with the party's leader, Nicole Vournazos, who was not really focused on the issue and talked to random people as they went by and even ran away as we were asking her a question to show something to an anonymous person on the Internet. However, here is a partial transcript of the Tribune's conversation with Ms. Vournazos, from which we were able to get some answers:

Andrej Svetlosak: Does the party have any bills running at the moment?

Nicole Vournazos: At the moment we believe none of the parties have worked out a bill and are still trying to understand the issues.

AS: How do you see the relations with the other parties?

NV: We are working towards good relations with other groups.

After these two questions, she went to talk with her fellow party members. We hope that the party will supply us with the needed information so we can bring you exclusively the statement of the as-yet-unnamed party.

- ANDREJ SVETLOSAK