The People's Interest - Véres Draskovits

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Véres Draskovits replanted his podium to the front of the City rather than the Town Square and began to speak up, as a courier stood next to him, penning every word onto a roll of parchment. 

 

"It is with great pleasure that I release to the public, this speech, entitled 'The People's Interest', penned by none other than myself." 

 

He started off, then going on to pluck a rolled diploma from his surcoat, and unrolling it, to read its contents. 

 

"The People's Interest. Allow me to lay forth to you the Mayoral Candidates who are actually for The People's Interest, and not just some title to flaunt and do nothing with: Matthew de Cantwell and his Deputy. Myself, Véres Draskovits, and my Deputy. Leila Rubens and her Deputy. Now, do I want to win the Mayorship? Well, yes, it'd be great. Though I will be content if I am to not win it this time around, as I have done the majority of what I wished to achieve with forming the Municipal Government alongside Sylvestre. I just wish one thing, and that is that the Citizenry not allow The Fallen Noble and The Fraudulent King residence in the, or any, highly influential office. At the least, the other two main candidates are reasonable people. I'm sure that if I do not obtain the Mayorship then my ideas will still be heard and taken into consideration by beforementioned parties. 

 

I'm going to lay out a plethora of ideologies about the candidates that I mentioned before:

• They care about the Militia Prowess of the Principality of Curon, not the well-being of the City of Cyrilsburg and her delicacies, and should henceforth not be running for Mayor, but instead enlist in the Military and ascend through those circumstances, to prove themselves worthy. 
• I do not like name-calling most of the time, but under this circumstance, I feel it is necessary. The parties are self-entitled and childish, as well as having quite the constant ego. The attitude as seen in these two is not a common trait in a leader unless you refer to Philip Frederick and clearly indicates that neither one of these candidates should obtain a role in this office per their mentality as a whole.

 

Now that we have that aside, I find it a fitting time for the supposed and glorious self-worshipping that comes with running for Public Office."

He shared a chuckle with those gathered, as he continued.

 

"If I were elected Mayor of Cyrilsburg, with Benjamin Kalehart as my Deputy, I would ensure that the lack of Architecture is taken care post-haste, as the City does not look appealing in certain spots. The grass is dead, and the decor and flora merely do not exist. I will not pretend that this is the only problem, as it is not. I will either A: lower the prices of properties and increase taxing or B: decrease taxing and increase the pricing of properties. It would take some discussion with the Stewards of the Municipal Government, and various opinions from that of the Citizenry. Perhaps even a vote could be taken up.  This would greatly affect the common peasantry in a positive manner. You may say... Véres, you've held Public Office and currently are the officeholder of Deputy Mayor of Cyrilsburg, you don't need another run. This is a valid point, but I do not have as much power as my successor, the Mayor, has and cannot, therefore, accomplish as many things as I would like to at times. I will continue to hold Public Office even if not allowed this most honorable Position, as Secretary of the Royal Household, but my forté is within the complete opposite of the Municipal Government in such a case. Ideally, I will still uphold my position as a Steward if not elected into office, where I can at the least have an adept amount of input.

 

I said all this to say: Vote Véres Draskovits and Benjamin Kalehart 'For Cyrilsburg will Prosper'."

 

He then stepped down from his podium, going to tie the red ribbon up. One of his supporters grabbed the podium as Véres waved to the crowd of people and headed onwards to the Office of the Mayor.

 

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