Together for Alsland

Together for Alsland Tegearre foar Aalslân Koos Elsmaa eest
Abbreviation	TFA
Chairman	Kairi Sokk
Vice Chairpeople	Sjoek Wijma Griġm Holt
Leader in the Folkssenaat	Ajolt Glas
Leader in the Euclean Parliament	Jannik Boeckmann
Founded	26 July 2022 (2022-07-26)
Split from	Green - Alternative Choice Progressive Alliance
Headquarters	13A Puiestikwei, Yndyk
Ideology	Green politics Populism Social liberalism Pro-Eucleanism Direct democracy
Political position	Centre to centre-left
Member Parties	A21 T.as Alt Vox
Colours	Blue
Slogan	"Renewing the Alslandic Project"
Folkssenaat	32 / 201
Federal Council	14 / 96
Euclean Parliament	2 / 23
Website
www.ûnôfhinklikgrienen.as
Political parties

Together for Alsland (Dellish: Tegearre foar Aalslân, Weranian: Gemeinsam für Aalsland, Swathish: Gẹdor for Ẹlsland, Kirenian: Koos Elsmaa eest, TFA), often shortened to Together, is an Alslandic political alliance.

Ideologically the alliance has positioned itself as a centrist force and has been described as populist by some media sources. The alliance was founded on 26 July 2022 ahead of the 2022 Alslandic legislative election by politicians from the Green - Alternative Choice and Progressive Alliance who were opposed to the cabinet's response to the SYFA spying scandal. They were joined initially by 6 Senators and 1 MEP. The alliance's rapid growth in support ahead of the election led to the alliance's officials to select Kairi Sokk as the alliance's candidate for Premier. It formed a joint list with VOX Alsland, Future.as and Alsland 21 ahead of the election. It's main policies include protecting the environment, government accountability and holding a constitutional convention to write a new constitution.

History

The alliance was founded on 26 July 2022 by a group of defectors from the Green - Alternative Choice: Kairi Sokk, Sjoek Wijma, Griġm Holt and Ajolt Glas who left the Green - Alternative Choice to oppose the alliance's defence of the government during the SYFA spying scandal. At their founding press conference Sokk stated the alliance's main goals were to oppose the current government, push for government accountability and transparency, support a new constitutional convention and oppose the Dellish independence movement by giving Communities more say in the running of the Federal government. They were soon joined by Green MEP Jannik Boeckmann and 2 former Progressive Alliance Senators. Jannik Boeckmann became a member of the Forward Euclea political group in the Euclean Parliament after the alliance's founding. The alliance allows anyone to be a member and does not impose membership fees on prospective members who will have to register to join the alliance online to vote on alliance issues.

The announcement of the new alliance was welcomed amongst dissatisfied Alslandic voters who began supporting the alliance en-masse, within weeks of it's founding it led opinion polls. The alliance adopted a populist campaign strategy, after Sokk was not invited to a climate change debate on ANS the alliance held a simultaneous online question and answer session which reportedly had more viewers than the climate change debate according to Alsland's media regulator body.

Platform

Together for Alsland claims to be a centrist, anti-establishment, envrionmentalist, Pro-Euclean political movement. The alliance's 2022 manifesto commits the alliance to pursue government, social and economic reforms if elected including digitalising the government, closing Alsland's nuclear power plants, creating an independent elected body to draft a new constitution and to equalise Alsland's regions and end the transfer of taxes between communities. The alliance is considered to be a member of the Future politics movement due to it's affiliation with Future.as. The alliance's chairwoman Kairi Sokk claims the current Alslandic constitution fuels division and wants to replace the offices of Premier of Alsland and President of Alsland with an elected directorial position comprising of representatives from each Community of Alsland. The alliance also wants to cut the number of Senators from 201 to 132 whilst also introducing more forms of direct democracy and e-democracy. The alliance wants to encourage investment in technology start-ups, it also plans to dramatically increase Alsland's science funding and also create more technology schools to make the country a regional leader in technological innovation. It also supports establishing term limits of 8 years for Senators.

Various analysts have differing views on where the alliance sits on the political spectrum. ANS describes the alliance as centrist, Hjoed meanwhile has implied that the alliance is influenced by liberal and social democratic tendencies from the centre-left. The alliance has an very liberal economic policy compared to other political parties in Alsland and supports lowering the country's corporate tax. Kairi Sokk identifies the alliance as following a unique brand of economic liberalism. The alliance has rejected being labelled as neoliberal and points to it's support for abolishing tuition fees for Universities and other forms of tertiary education as proof.

Members

Name			Years	Ideology	Position	Leader	Senators	Councillors	MEPs	Community Senators
	File:Alternative Alsland logo.png	Alternative (Alt) Alternatyf	2022–	Green politics Social liberalism Populism Direct democracy	Centre-left	Kairi Sokk	13 / 201	0 / 96	1 / 23	2 / 608
	File:Vox Alsland logo.png	Vox Alsland (Vox)	2022–	Euclean federalism Social liberalism Progressivism	Centre-left to centre	Karl Hanisch	9 / 201	0 / 96	0 / 23	3 / 608
	File:Future Alsland logo.png	Future.as (T.as)	2022–	Future politics	Centre-left to centre	Sjerp Schotanus	8 / 201	0 / 96	0 / 23	15 / 608
		Alsland21 (A21)	2022–	Youth politics Populism	Centre-left	Walling Wagenaar Vivienne Gaertner	2 / 201	0 / 96	0 / 23	1 / 608

Euclean affiliation

The alliance has no official affiliation in the Euclean Parliament and has deferred all decisions on joining a group until after the legislative election. The alliance's sole MEP Jannik Boeckmann who defected from the Green - Alternative Choice alliance to join Together continues to sit as a member of the Green and Ecologist Movement in the Euclean Parliament. In an email sent to prospective members after the alliance's founding it committed itself to holding an online members vote to decide on whether to join a Euclean group with the option to remain unaffiliated. Alliance members were given the choice of starting negotiations with the Forward Euclea, the Alliance for a Federal and Regionalist Euclea or the Green and Ecologist Movement groups in the Euclean Parliament, a plurality supported opening negotiations with Forward Euclea although Future.as announced it would not leave the Future Party of Euclea.

Leadership

Kairi Sokk is the alliance's Chairperson and candidate for Premier