Docklands Alliance

The party holds that the Republic is a maritime state whose contact with the world runs through two ports, and that its politics should follow from that fact. Its internationalism is practical: it treats the movement of people and goods through the corridor as the ordinary condition of the coast and the closure of the southern land border as the exception.

Its regionalism rests on the same ground as that of the Highlands Federation, from the opposite geography. A port bears costs on behalf of the whole territory and should be compensated for them as of right.

The party supported the draft and proposes no amendment.

Like the Highlands Federation it has widened its programme for the first Assembly, on the same reasoning: two sub-regions set a ceiling, and the questions of allocation between territories are national.

The open frontier acted upon

Article 296 states the objective, and Article 296(3) requires the Republic to seek an opening agreement with any state upon reciprocity, concluding it where it imposes no obligation contrary to Titles II, III or IV.

The party wants a standing programme of such approaches, with the date of each approach and the answer received published as they occur.

"The objective has been in the text since July and in the annual report since October. Neither document records a single approach to a single state. We would like a list with dates on it."

Docklands Alliance, Programme for the first Assembly, section 1

Article 296Article 297

Equalisation for coastal burdens

The party supports the early publication of the allocation formula and wants it to recognise the burdens a port bears on behalf of the whole territory: dredging, corridor maintenance, rescue capacity, and the housing pressure that follows the traffic. Article 181 makes compensation for burdens borne on behalf of others owed as of right.

Article 180Article 181

Communal competence at the waterfront

The party holds the same position as the Highlands Federation on Articles 167 and 171. It adds that spatial planning under Article 184 determines the development of a port town, and that the commune adopts that plan after a public inquiry.

Article 167Article 171Article 184

Rescue without exception

Article 297 obliges the Republic to assist anyone in distress at sea and protects rescuers from prosecution. The party wants the station capacity stated in the plan and the obligation excluded from the subject matter of any agreement on movement.

Article 297Article 289

The corridor and the railway

The line from Lutoliluri inland is the route in the worst condition in the Republic, and the party has made its renewal a condition of its support for the first plan. Article 69 places mobility within the guarantee of essential provision.

Article 69Article 107

The party maintains informal contact with port-city and maritime networks abroad and seeks no formal affiliation with a Union party family, on the same ground as the Highlands Federation. It supports Ukraine, opposes the parties of the far right in Europe, and takes no position favourable to Russia.

Within Lindoma and Lutoliluri, 47 per cent of respondents describe the party favourably. Across the Republic, 8 per cent say they would consider voting for it.

The projection raises its share by three tenths of a point and more than doubles its seats, the second effect coming from the size of the chamber. The railway question is recorded as its strongest issue outside the two sub-regions.