Since its inception, the Unite Party has held an electoral edge not based in original ideas, but simple math. Using patronage and coercion to force voters to the polls, and by consistently opposing and blocking online voting, it stands only to maintain its election-winning equation.
Over the last year, the Unite Party has remained largely unopposed in Student Government. This is why I was both excited and relieved at the merger between the Progress and Orange and Blue parties — excited for the original ideas that the new party will bring to the election and relieved that the Unite Party will no longer have free reign in the Student Senate.
I’m confident the shared ideas and platforms of the merged parties will bring accountability back to SG.
