Wow! (Candanadian political party) - Revision history

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	'''Wow!''' is a single-issue political party in [[Candanadium]] founded in 2008 by activist and journalist Stefan Bober, who has led the party since its inception.		'''Wow!''' is a single-issue political party in [[Candanadium]] founded in 2008 by activist and journalist Stefan Bober, who has led the party since its inception.

	The party has been described by the [[Konigstadt Times]] as "a one-man farce", an "ego trip", and a "social venture for irritable suburban retirees". Its only current MP, Roger Pfarrer (Waldrand-Cape Communities NTC), formerly served as the interim Minister of Agriculture in the Democratic Party government under Chancellor Rüdiger Thaler (~~1983–1987~~), who joined the party after being expelled from the Democratic Party for making remarks opposing the election of women to Parliament. The party fields candidates in [[Belkhomir]] and [[Caskhomir]] without having local chapters or affiliate parties, one of the few political parties in Candanadium to do so.		The party has been described by the [[Konigstadt Times]] as "a one-man farce", an "ego trip", and a "social venture for irritable suburban retirees". Its only current MP, Roger Pfarrer (Waldrand-Cape Communities NTC), formerly served as the interim Minister of Agriculture in the Democratic Party government under Chancellor Rüdiger Thaler (1984–1986), who joined the party after being expelled from the Democratic Party for making remarks opposing the election of women to Parliament. The party fields candidates in [[Belkhomir]] and [[Caskhomir]] without having local chapters or affiliate parties, one of the few political parties in Candanadium to do so.

	The party has gained some international prominence due to its occasional criticism by the Candanadian media, leading to spin-off parties being launched in [[Wow! Trefjall\|Trefjall]], [[He! (Akarean political party)\|Akarea]], and even [[Wow! Éidobhasia\|Edofasia]], though all have taken the form of joke parties. This development has been condemned by the party's founder, Stefan Bober, who intended Wow! to be a serious Candanadian political movement.		The party has gained some international prominence due to its occasional criticism by the Candanadian media, leading to spin-off parties being launched in [[Wow! Trefjall\|Trefjall]], [[He! (Akarean political party)\|Akarea]], and even [[Wow! Éidobhasia\|Edofasia]], though all have taken the form of joke parties. This development has been condemned by the party's founder, Stefan Bober, who intended Wow! to be a serious Candanadian political movement.

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	On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move, but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister (which he had not been for more than thirty years) and that efforts to remove him from the government benches were "democracy manifest". After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages into his office and under his desk". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.		On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium)\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move, but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister (which he had not been for more than thirty years) and that efforts to remove him from the government benches were "democracy manifest". After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages into his office and under his desk". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.

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	On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move, but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister (which he had not been for more than thirty years) and that efforts to remove him from the government benches were "democracy manifest". After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages in his office". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.		On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move, but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister (which he had not been for more than thirty years) and that efforts to remove him from the government benches were "democracy manifest". After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages into his office and under his desk". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.

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	On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move (but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister~~, "appointed by Thaler himself,"~~ and that efforts to remove him from the government benches were "democracy manifest"). After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages in his office". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.		On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move, but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister (which he had not been for more than thirty years) and that efforts to remove him from the government benches were "democracy manifest". After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages in his office". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.

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	On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move (but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister, "appointed by Thaler himself", and that efforts to remove him from the government benches ~~was~~ "democracy manifest). After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages in his office". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.		On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move (but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister, "appointed by Thaler himself," and that efforts to remove him from the government benches were "democracy manifest"). After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages in his office". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.

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	On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move, ~~upon which point he relocated~~ to the opposition front bench, ~~burping~~ loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally ~~rising~~ on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages in his office". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.		On May 1, 2016, the party's sole MP, Roger Pfarrer, was ejected from Parliament for the duration of the day's sitting by the [[Lord Speaker of Parliament (Candanadium\|Lord Speaker]], Gabriel Luther, for showing up visibly drunk to a debate on the adoption of a tax on sugar, briefly occupying the government front bench before being told to move (but not before insisting angrily that he was still a minister, "appointed by Thaler himself", and that efforts to remove him from the government benches was "democracy manifest). After relocating to the opposition front bench (while being booed by government and opposition MPs), Pfarrer burped loudly while the Chancellor responded to a question from a Conservative MP, thereby disrupting the House's proceedings (as much of the House erupted into raucous laughter), and finally rose on a point of order only to call the Minister of the Coast Guard and Fisheries a "kiddy fiddler" who "probably keeps candy in his pocket to get the parliamentary pages in his office". The Minister had allegedly accidentally bumped into Pfarrer earlier that week and spilled the cup of tea he had been carrying. Subsequently, party leader Stefan Bober released a statement defending Pfarrer's actions, explaining them as an "impassioned accusation" and contesting the [[Royal Broadcasting Service]]'s coverage of the events. For this, the party has been officially censured by the Candanadian Parliament in a vote of 577 to 1.

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Agriculture

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	* [[Conscription in Candanadium\|National Service]] to include the option of working unpaid on farms		* [[Conscription in Candanadium\|National Service]] to include the option of working unpaid on farms
	* All farms and farmers to be exempt from federal income tax		* All farms and farmers to be exempt from federal income tax
			* Deregulation of child labour on farms

	==Foreign policy and defence==		==Foreign policy and defence==
	* Unilateral Candanadian withdrawal from the [[Kaltach Union]] and the [[World Congress]]		* Unilateral Candanadian withdrawal from the [[Kaltach Union]] and the [[World Congress]]

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	* Granting full official language status to the Trefjalli and Caskaans languages		* Granting full official language status to the Trefjalli and Caskaans languages
	* Abolition of the genitive case and grammatical gender in the Kanadiaans and Trefjalli languages		* Abolition of the genitive case and grammatical gender in the Kanadiaans and Trefjalli languages
			* Abolition of the double negative in the Caskaans language
			* Introduction of the accusative and dative cases to the Caskaans language to create grammatical consistency across all official languages (except the Oseanian language)
	* Abolition of the eszett (ß) and umlauted letters (ü, ö, ä) in Kanadiaans		* Abolition of the eszett (ß) and umlauted letters (ü, ö, ä) in Kanadiaans
	* Abolition of the eth (ð) and thorn (þ) letters in Trefjalli		* Abolition of the eth (ð) and thorn (þ) letters in Trefjalli

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	* All farms and farmers to be exempt from federal income tax		* All farms and farmers to be exempt from federal income tax
	==Foreign policy and defence==		==Foreign policy and defence==
	* Unilateral Candanadian withdrawal from the [[Kaltach Union]]		* Unilateral Candanadian withdrawal from the [[Kaltach Union]] and the [[World Congress]]
	* Abrogation of the Candanadium-Trefjall Mutual Defence, Freedom of Movement, and Free Trade Agreement and withdrawal of all Candanadian forces from Trefjall		* Abrogation of the Candanadium-Trefjall Mutual Defence, Freedom of Movement, and Free Trade Agreement and withdrawal of all Candanadian forces from Trefjall
	* Negotiate the transfer of [[Hautsing]] to the Akarean Union or any other willing state in exchange for tribute and bullion		* Negotiate the transfer of [[Hautsing]] to the Akarean Union or any other willing state in exchange for tribute and bullion

	==Culture==		==Culture==
	* The Ministry of Candanadian Heritage to begin the free public provision of poppy flowers and poppy seeds upon request		* The Ministry of Candanadian Heritage to begin the free public provision of poppy flowers and poppy seeds upon request