The Social Democrats Face an Existential Choice on Sunday

In the final days leading up to the Social Democratic Party's long overdue leadership election, the party's establishment has decided to make a last-minute effort to rehabilitate their disgraced leader, President JeskiaWeathers, by attempting to link her challenger to supposed war threats against Demarcia, thus giving her a doubtful excuse to seek re-election while seemingly forgetting about the presence of one more candidate in the race. 

The lack of any evidence whatsoever of NathanielArcher being involved in or supporting the supposed war threats against our country hasn't stopped the SDP's secretary, Penstubal, from going so far as to accuse him of treason, in a desperate attempt to divert attention from the real warmonger residing in the Presidential Palace, who was revealed to have been looking for an enemy for our country – if she believes that her opponent is in any way responsible for war threats against Demarcia, perhaps she should thank him for granting her wish and reward him with a medal?

­In any case, re-electing JeskiaWeathers as the leader of the SDP would mean a prompt return of the Civic Unity Party to power, possibly as early as 18 February, as the Demarcian people certainly will not re-elect a President who was described as a "terrorist and a war lord" by her own current foreign minister.

Furthermore, re-electing her might well mean a split in the Social Democratic Party; many members might not accept being represented by a warmonger, including one senior member of her own administration who is widely expected to support her impeachment at tomorrow's Parliament session. 

The Social Democrats must not fall into this trap; renominating this failed President would undoubtedly lead to a string of failures for the party, from which it might not recover in our lifetimes. In order to once again present themselves as a competent party of government to the voters, they must nominate somebody with experience in government, who at the same time was not involved in this disaster of a government we've seen over the past month.

There are two such candidates in this race, and the party members now have the difficult task of deciding between them in Sunday's leadership election – hopefully following the long overdue impeachment of President JeskiaWeathers, which would once and for all put an end to her lamentable attempt to cling to power for another term.

Emmanuel Micron,

Demarcian Inquirer.