United Kingdom Security Council Election - Q&A Period

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Whom do you wish to be the UK Representative?

Republic1 86%

Re-Open Nominations (RON)14%

Total votes: 7

Dear respected delegates, seeing as Miser has stepped down as the representative for the UK, an election is now being held to fill the position.

I have received the following manifesto:

Republic1

Republic here, current representative for Serbia and Iran.

I'm putting myself forward as a candidate for the UK position because I feel I can take on the responsibilities of the role. I'm very active on TSR, being a prominent member of the Socialist Party in the MHoC, and representing two countries here in the MUN.

I have seen the MUN at it's high and low points and am glad to see that we are now out of the activity lull and things are moving along nicely. I have been a non-permanent member of the Security Council for the last 3 months, and so would be a suitable candidate for the UK position. More than half of resolutions this term have been written by me (4 out of 7), I was member of the month two months running, and recently won Secretary General's Member of the Year.

The MUN Map was my latest creation, and have previously written a detailed country description for Serbia. These little projects help improve the MUN, but the one issue we still have is a lack of activity in the SC. With the recent election of new non-perm members, I feel that along with other SC veterans (Cheese_Monster I'm looking at you), I could help to get things going again in the SC.

I was a strong supporter of Resolution 2013/05 which established the rotating of permanent seats, and so I guess I should practice what I preach and run for a seat.

The election shall be run in accordance with Section 2 of the MUN Guidance Document

Any questions, feel free to PM me, Rory or just post here.

ElectionSaturday 25th January 2014 - Announcement of election and manifestos of no more than 300 words requested by Secretary General

Sunday 2nd February 2014 - Manifestos posted and a 2 day Q&A period will begin

Tuesday 4th January 2014 - Voting opened. Q&A can continue during this time.

Sunday 9th February 2014 - Result is announced. If there is a tie between the top two candidates, a run off vote of five days shall occur.

Superunknown17
Deputy Secretary General

(edited 10 years ago)

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Reply 1

Henry_Tudor

Good luck to those who go for it! it's great the SC is getting a lot of new faces!

Reply 2

Will95206

Good luck all!

I hope members stand for this, one of the most prestigious nations in the MUN....lol not bias or anything...

Reply 3

Moist Penguin

Good Luck to all who apply. Even i you are new I would say give it a shot, I got in as rep for Russia when I was very new, I thought I had no chance if anyone else was standing but no one else did. :biggrin:

Reply 4

ThisIsn'tSpam

To whoever applies, I wish you luck.

Reply 5

Kiss

I might apply if not a lot of people go in for it.

Reply 6

Cheese_Monster

Original post by Kiss

I might apply if not a lot of people go in for it.

Would be good to see you return. :smile:

Tempting...

Original post by meenu89

Tempting...

About time!!

Reply 9

Will95206

Original post by meenu89

Tempting...

Thats what I though when I went for DSG! Go for it Meenu!

Reply 10

Superunknown17

It's almost the end of Wednesday and I've received no manifestos so far which is disappointing as a fair few people had declared some interest.

Republic1

QFA

Luketreherne

QFA

meenu89

QFA

I've quoted you guys as you seem to be interested in the role so I'm going to extend the deadline by a day or two if you guys are willing to submit a manifesto. :smile:

Reply 11

Republic1

Original post by Superunknown17

It's almost the end of Wednesday and I've received no manifestos so far which is disappointing as a fair few people had declared some interest.

I sent mine to Rory last week, sorry I forgot to mention it. :smile:

Reply 12

Superunknown17

Sorry it's a bit late in going up but feel free to start asking questions to Republic1 :smile:

I've extended the election schedule accordingly.

Reply 13

Qwertish

Republic1

QFA

Which of your two currents seats would you drop if you're elected, and why? :smile:

Reply 14

Republic1

Original post by Qwertish

Which of your two currents seats would you drop if you're elected, and why? :smile:

I'd probably drop Serbia, despite my love of balkans history/politics. Iran gives me more scope in terms of activity, especial as Serbia has no neighbours in the MUN at the minute. :smile:

Reply 15

Henry_Tudor

Original post by Republic1

I'd probably drop Serbia, despite my love of balkans history/politics. Iran gives me more scope in terms of activity, especial as Serbia has no neighbours in the MUN at the minute. :smile:

Loving the sig, London's skyline would look very good on it too!

Reply 16

ThisIsn'tSpam

Do you expect any major tonal shifts in terms of UK Foreign Policy in the near future?

Reply 17

Republic1

Original post by Henry_Tudor

Loving the sig, London's skyline would look very good on it too!

Thanks, I was thinking the same :smile:

Original post by ThisIsn'tSpam

Do you expect any major tonal shifts in terms of UK Foreign Policy in the near future?

I don't foresee any major shifts soon. How Iraq/Afghanistan turned out had the capability to be a trigger for a major change, but unfortunately since then, the UK has had neo-liberal governments who standby US policy. I am firmly of the view that this is a model UN, and so we don't have to just repeat everything that our nation would do irl - that's pretty boring, although I would obviously stay close to the standard UK position.

Reply 18

Qwertish

Original post by Republic1

I'd probably drop Serbia, despite my love of balkans history/politics. Iran gives me more scope in terms of activity, especial as Serbia has no neighbours in the MUN at the minute. :smile:

Okay, fair enough.

What would your response be, as the UK, if Russia were to encroach on Poland (like they did with Georgia a while ago).