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Written by HEM Tiberius
HEM: "Thank you for joining us Mr. President. How do you feel you won such a decisive victory?"
Kraketopia: "Well, let me start off by saying that I think Drecq ran a decent campaign and was a great candidate. I don't think this was a vote of me greatly better than Drecq, I think this was a choice from the electorate for a platform that was more creative and a President they know will communicate with them. I also think my choice for VP swayed a lot of voters over Drecq's choice."
HEM: "Over the course of the next term, what is your top priority?"
Kraketopia: "Increasing Europeia's communication networks in a number of ways. And by this I don't just mean the Ministry of Communication, I mean better coordinating our MoFA, better coordinating military activities with allies, having a President more available to the public, and having more cultural events for people to engage each other in. I hope that when this term is done, people will feel like they're closer to their institutions and each other."
HEM: "How do you plan on addressing activity this term? During the tenure of President Anumia we have seen a stagnation of activity at low levels that were previously intolerable. What's your plan?"
Kraketopia: "Quite simply I plan to maintain a strong base of activity myself and ensure my ministers do the same. Those in cabinet who cannot be active will find themselves out of employment quite quickly. Krakens are notorious for their ruthless efficiency.
As for general inactivity, I hope the cultural programs we have planned, as well as greater communication and a more active navy will lead to increased levels of activity. We also hope the Office of Dispatches will get some gameside members onto the forum."
HEM: "Could you explain the Office of Dispatches to our viewers who might not be so familiar with the concept?"
Kraketopia: "As outlined in my platform the Office of Dispatches(OoD) will create dispatches for public consumption as well as review submitted private dispatches for distribution."
HEM: "So, essentially your entire plan for activity (the lifeblood of the region) is to pin more dispatches and force your Cabinet Ministers to be active?"
Kraketopia: "You sound like Cormac trying to misquote me! I also plan to have a more engaged Ministry of Culture(which greatly boosted activity at certain points during the last term) as well as an active and meaningful Navy."
HEM: "I promise that isn't my intention. However, Presidents have been talking about cultural programs and the navy as activity tools since before we elected Prime Ministers on typewriters."
Kraketopia: "Yes, but I believe I'll be the first one to actually do something about it in a long time. I was intimately involved in the Euro-Equilism Festival with Zenny, and I know she has what it takes to do bigger and better things. As for the Navy I'm a Navy man and I'm confident from talking with SD that things will be back on track. This isn't just hot air."
HEM: "Excellent. Could you outline for our viewers some new initiatives that result in an activity creating Navy and more participation in cultural events?"
Kraketopia: "As stated in my platform we will be running a lot of joint operations with allies, which will allow our navy to partake in bigger events. This will allow for greater training, as well as make our sailors feel like they're doing something more than de-tagging. The cultural events will take shape in two forms. Those that are more constant day to day activity oriented, and those that are larger and more in depth, such as the Philosophy Symposium I proposed."
HEM: "We've been going on joint-operations since 2007, and had cultural activities of all sizes since around then too. I'm just curious as to where the new ideas are, and if there are not any, how you are going to improve upon old ideas to create more activity"
Kraketopia: "I can't speak on programs since 2007, since I'm relatively new. But I can speak on what I've seen. Cultural festivals until Zenny really weren't that well done, although SD didn't do a bad job of them. I feel like we now have the chance to have an actual cultural festival. As for the navy, while it was active under Cerian, I believe there were only about two joint operations in two terms(I could be wrong on this though, I wasn't in the navy for some of the first term). I'm talking about regular raids(at least a few a week) with at least one joint operation a week. In the past this simply hasn't been done(during my time here)."
HEM: "And finally, any advise for new members?"
Kraketopia: "Well, practically being a new member myself, I'd say get active and disregard your feelings of being overwhelmed. There are a lot of old, well established members here. But if you put the work in, make friends, and become active, you'll be given a fair shot at promotion in this region. Euro has been a great place to learn how to govern and make friends."
HEM: "Thank you for your time Mr. President."
The above interview with conducted on 5/23/14 right after the election of President Kraketopia. Due to some aging of the interview before publication, questions about the nomination of judges were redacted from the transcript.
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