Frente Popular Grows at Expense of Other Parties

The Frente Popular, Baracão's governing Tiegist federal political party, has seen its membership increase dramatically in the past few days. Whilst the PNB has slumped into inactivity since the departure of Jose Barrio-Martinez to form the PSD, the Frente's fortunes have been much better; despite the loss of Chirsto de Loutrado to Baracão's newest party, four citizens of Baracão have become Frentistas in the last few days.

Koba, formerly the General Secretary of the Partido Comunista Nacional during the Socialist Republic was the first to join the Frente Popular, and he was followed, in quick succession, by Salomon Viviano, Cguan Pugalista Carpintero and Alfonso Rufio Castaneda.

Compañero Carpintero defected to the Frente Popular's FNTMST organisation from the Partido Clásico Centrista, the long inactive successor to the Partido Conservadore. On his departure, he announced "I know that by leaving the [Partido Clásico Centrista], I am destroying it, but I believe our platform has stagnated, and needs constant renewal to keep up... [I will join the FNTMST] hoping to enshrine our ways and culture there", referring to the Nueva Minorcan culture, of which a particular feature is the old language of Baracão seen in compañero Carpintero's forename.

Salomon Viviano was also a member of the PCC, and with the two now both having switched their allegiances to the Frente Nacional para la Tradición Minorcana y Salvación Tiegista, the PCC sets to lose its status as a legal political party.

Alfonso Rufio Castaneda's arrival in the Frente is set to spark co-operation between him and the leader of the Partido Comunista Nacional, Juan Fidel Valencia, who serves as Minister of Economics and Finance, with Castaneda's php bank script.

The Frente Popular has also begun construction on its website, which can be seen at www.frente-popular.tk, and will hopefully convince even more people to join Baracão's Tiegist government.