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RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 15-04-2026
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Janina Dubinska, new leader of Forward Valruzia, wants her party to become "a representation of the average Valruzian": "We are past some general debates in civil rights or economy; we have to evolve to survive"
Same-sex marriage or abortion are not a priority for the new leadership of the conservative Valruzian party, which claims the Valruzian identity is "unique"
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When Forward Valruzia was formed in 5641 thanks to the alliance between National Renewal, National Salvation and Agrarian Voice, its core ideas were pretty right-wing. "In the end, the origin of National Salvation formed by former allies and collaborators of the Morawski regime, whilst many members of National Renewal were hardcore conservatives" says politologist Weronika Marziak "The idea behind this early merge was to join efforts to represent the conservative electorate in a not-so-conservative and newly born Valruzian republic. And in that republic, the right was clearly losing".
This early coalition would not last long, however. Agrarian Voice, which firstly surged as a breakway faction from National Renewal by more agrarianist deputies, left the coalition in 5661 dissatisfied with the direction of the party, preferring to join forces with the socialdemocratic Dignity and Progress (and at the start of the 58th century, both parties will formally create the Socialdemocratic-Agrarian Party, now integrated into Sovereign Valruzia ahead of the 5720 Valruzian elections). The agrarists were never happy with the coalition. "They did it more for survival than for conviction" continues Mrs. Marziak. Valruzia is home to large rural areas, especially in the Chynberg Voivodeship, but those are usually esparsely populated (Chynberg is the least populated region of Valruzia), or reject the label of conservatism - such as the Ruzian Voivodeship, where the uprising against the autocratic Morawski dictatorship had its inflexion point. "A peculiarity from the Valruzian society is that it is decisively on the left side of the political spectrum - the right has never been even close to rule the post-dictatorship country".
And that is certainly true. Almost a hundred years after the fall of the regime in 5624, only three parties have ruled the nation: the Communist Party of Valruzia, the populist Sovereign Valruzia - which many political experts fail to place in a specific place of the political spectrum but which have approved many of the civil rights laws of Valruzia including same-sex marriage, equality or abortion and have nationalized big parts of the Valruzian industry and healthcare sectors - and for just a few years, the socialdemocratic Dignity and Progress. "It is such an anomaly that a fully democratic country has such a long streak of ideologically aligned governments in such a long timespan. There has not been a single stance where the Valruzian right has been able to even have a close taste of what ruling the nation feels like".
Must be said that Forward Valruzia does have experience in government: the party has ruled the Voivodeship of Gryfit for 65 years of its modern history, and they have ruled their crown jewel, Gryfit, for 70 years across different periods. But that's regional politics. Never national. "Forward Valruzia has only been able to give a hint to Valruzian citizens of what would it look like having them at the helm of the country through their regional governments; and of course, there are matters that are not devolved and therefore, cannot be shown to the general public through examples, only in theorical explanations" says Prof. Aleksander Kuwak, from the University of Brzansk. Their best result both in amount of votes and seats in the Sejm came in 5700 under the last elections contested by their leader Fryderyk Konik, and the two times they have placed in first position, in the 5705 and the 5710 elections, were due to the left being extremely fractured into different parties. And still, they were unable to reach the government. There's however one instance of them grabbing power in Valruzia: in 5641, their candidate Szymona Razem became elected President of Valruzia, the nation's head of State. What seemed to be like the first of many sweet victories for the conservatives turned into a nightmare when just a few years later she was removed from office following a process of impeachment after it was made public her negotiating attempts to deport thousands of Valruzian Yeudis to Amudim.
Many say that one of the biggest problems with Forward Valruzia is that they have not broken yet with that link to the dictatorship, and that many times it has decided to give way to the most right-wing members among its ranks. But this changed yesterday, when the party elected deputy Janina Dubinska as its new leader. The 36-years-old journalist and politician comes from a different generation, one that has no single clue of what was like living under the dictatorship, one that has enjoyed many of the privileges brought by the different governments of SW and the KPW, one that has grown up completely free. And that's where she want to make her voice clear and loud.
"We have to become a representation of the average Valruzian" said in her acceptance speech after she was proclaimed the winner with a 58% backing. Prior to her election, she had already made clear that she rejected the labels of "far-right" posed into her party by some. "We are past some general debates in civil rights or economy; we must evolve to survive" she said in an interview. For Mrs. Dubinska, there's "nothing wrong" with same-sex marriage, with free contraceptives or with giving sex education to minors. "It would seem like somebody in Forward Valruzia has finally made at least an attempt to understand the average Valruzian voter" said Prof. Kuwak "Valruzia is a highly secular country, with more than 60% of its population declaring themselves openly irreligious. It is also home to some of the most progressive Yeudis in Terra, and among that religious population, many of them declare themselves non-practicant. For the average Valruzian, many "moral issues" that would bring a fierce debate in more religious countries have no place in Valruzian society. Same-sex marriage and abortion have acceptance ratings of over 90%, and same goes for sex ed, LGBTQ or women's issues. If a conservative party wants to really succeed in Valruzia, they have to come to terms with that".
And Mrs. Dubinska seems to share the same opinion. Past are the times of radical conservatives leading the way in Forward Valruzia. According to her own words, she wants to build a conservatism á la Valruzian. That is, focusing on "more important and urgent issues" than those who are not even up to debate for the general public. "The Valruzian political landscape is tricky, because in general terms, Sovereign Valruzia attracts some of the Valruzian conservative voters thanks to its pro-military stance, or its nationalistic views in many issues". But that might also start to change, and that could also benefit Forward Valruzia. Gawel Sandów, recently elected Chancellor-President of Valruzia, rules under an absolute majority of Sovereign Valruzia, and word in the street is that he wants to take over the party to push it further to the left on some issues. That would, of course, pave the way for the "moderate alternative" that Janina Dubinska wants to offer.
Forward Valruzia has already booked a theater in Nowogard next month to present what Mrs. Dubinska calls "the renewed movement Forward", that is, the new main ideological lines of the party, along with a speculated new logo. By then, we will see how the Valruzian society reacts to the party that wants to represent "the average them".
RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 21-04-2026
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RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 21-04-2026
Sandów's faction takes the reins of Sovereign Valruzia
Aleksandra Kos sets course for presidential nomination as he defines the party as "the heart of Valruzia"
February 5724
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With less than a year until the next Valruzian elections, all parties have started calibrating their weight and preparing to contest and fight Sovereign Valruzia's absolute majority during this term. But SW has also experienced some drama themselves, as yesterday night the leadership of Eryk Karcz came to a sudden end when his candidacy was defeated by the challenger Aleksandra Kos by a razor-thin margin: 50.63 vs. 49.37, in a night that delivered a surprised nobody was expecting initially, as many were widely expecting Karcz to comfortably revalidate his leadership at the forefront of Sovereign Valruzia.
That was not it, though, as Kos — widely known to be the candidate backed by Chancellor-President Sandów to win over Sovereign Valruzia — managed to defeat the odds and became SW's first female leader in 40 years, the last time being under Klaudia Nowik. But perhaps more important than who Aleksandra Kos is — 46, lawyer, public servant, openly bisexual, married with 3 children, former ambassador to Tukarali — is what does she represent. Because Mrs. Kos, who joined Sovereign Valruzia 10 years ago and has served since 5615 as sejmik in the Gryfitian parliament, belongs to the most progressist faction of Sovereign Valruzia. And she is exactly what Gawel Sandów wanted.
To understand why Kos's election matters beyond the personnel change, it is necessary to understand what divides the two wings of Sovereign Valruzia and what, despite everything, still unites them.
Valruzianism as an ideology has never been a monolith. Both its conservative and progressive factions share the foundational commitments set by Szymon Nowik when Sovereign Valruzia was founded: civic republicanism, anti-oligarchic economics, meritocracy, secularism and the mixed-economy model that powered Valruzia's post-Morawski reconstruction. The disagreements are real, but they are disagreements within a common house, not between strangers.
Where they diverge is on what kind of republic Valruzia should be, and for whom. Karcz's wing — productivist, culturally conservative, suspicious of what it viewed as social experimentation — emphasized economic output, national identity and a vision of SW as the party of Valruzia's working and middle classes broadly conceived. It was never hostile to the welfare state, but it was instinctively cautious about redistributive ambition, and it read the party's historic strength as a mandate for stability rather than transformation. On social issues, it hewed closer to the conservative Valruzianist tradition: civil unions yes, same-sex adoption no; women's participation in public life yes, but framed through the lens of family and republican duty rather than individual rights; integration of minorities through assimilation, with emphasis on cultural conformity over socioeconomic inclusion.
Kos represents the other current. Progressive Valruzianists share the same republican foundations but push them further: toward openly supporting LGBTQ rights, hate crime protections, and a more expansive reading of civic equality that does not stop at the threshold of the family home. On economics, they are more willing to deploy the state aggressively — not in the direction of the KPW's class-based vocabulary, but in the direction of structural redistribution: housing as a right, energy as a public good, labor protections as a republican obligation. And on international affairs, the progressive wing has historically been more willing to take explicit positions on democracy and human rights abroad, rather than retreating behind the neutrality that Valruzianist foreign policy doctrine has often used as a shield.
Kos herself embodies this profile in ways that go beyond her voting record. Her background as ambassador, a role in which she developed a reputation for direct and principled diplomacy, already marks an internationalist instinct. Her decade inside SW has been spent pushing the party toward what she calls "a republicanism that earns its name every generation".
She has been careful, however, to resist the framing that she is merely Sandów's instrument. When her now-former rival Eryk Karcz repeatedly accused her of being a "mole" of the current Chancellor-President — a figure installed to allow Sandów to take over the party without getting "his hands dirty" — Kos did not hesitate to say that such accusations "smelled like machismo." Her association with Sandów, which she has never concealed, rather "reflects a similarity of ideas, but not a chain of command in any way". "I am my own person," she told the SW congress in Nowogard last night, to sustained applause.
The faction she represents has spent four years watching Sandów implement, from the Chancellery, a programme that SW's progressive wing had long advocated but never managed to push through under Karcz. Labor reform, public housing, energy sovereignty — the architecture of this legislature has been built on foundations that Karcz tolerated but never owned. Kos, by contrast, owns them. The question now is whether she can consolidate them as SW's identity heading into 5725, or whether the half of the party that voted for Karcz last night will make that process slower and more contested than her victory speech suggested.
Kos has not formally announced a candidacy for the Chancellor-Presidency. She does not need to yet. But the logic of her position points in one direction, and nobody in SW's leadership circles is pretending otherwise. Under Valruzia's electoral system, each voivodeship nominates a candidate for the executive, and it's completely feasible that candidates not associated with political parties advance to the final round. Kos becoming SW leader is, in the political imagination of most observers, the first step in a sequence that might not even end with her as a final candidate. What that sequence looks like depends significantly on what Sandów himself decides to do as well. He has stated publicly, and on multiple occasions, that he does not intend to seek a second term. A Kos nomination — ideologically aligned, personally trusted, and now institutionally positioned — would be the cleanest possible continuation of his project without requiring him to contradict himself. It would allow him to leave, as promised, while ensuring that what he built does not revert to the version of SW that Karcz represented. Whether that was the plan from the beginning is a question Sandów's office has not answered.
The leadership contest has unfolded against the backdrop of an ongoing international crisis that has put Valruzia's government in an uncomfortable position. Since the invocation of the New Democracy Act in Xsampa last August, which saw the Xsampan Democratic Army march on Metz-Leonid, the dissolution of PAX and the Custodian Tsundue Dramuktsang assuming the Premiership by decree, the question of how Valruzia should respond has divided the country's political forces. The KPW's secretary-general Kaja Orlikowska was unambiguous, and in a widely-shared statement in October, she called the events in Xsampa a "blatant power grab," expressed full solidarity with the CPX and the Democratic Opposition and demanded that the Valruzian government take concrete steps to sanction what she described as a grave assault on proletarian democracy.
The government of Gawel Sandów, by contrast, has said nothing publicly, although internal sources say that the Valruzian embassy in Xsampa is in red alert, with the government open to take any refugees willing to do so, as well as attempting to act as mediator in the conflict without any further confirmation so far, but what they want to avoid is taking early positions such as Kalistan or Luthori. A silence that has given the KPW an opening to occupy the moral high ground on an issue where SW's progressive faction might otherwise have expected to lead.
Kos, in her first press appearance as party leader this morning, was asked directly about Xsampa. She was more forthcoming than the government has been, describing the situation as "deeply concerning" and stating that democratic institutions "cannot be suspended indefinitely under any kind of ideological pretext". She stopped short of endorsing the KPW's call for formal sanctions, but the distance between her words and Orlikowska's was noticeably smaller than the distance between either of them and the Chancellery's ongoing silence.
Whether that reflects a genuine divergence between the new SW leadership and the Chancellor-President or a coordinated division of work in which Kos occupies the moral space Sandów cannot claim without compromising whatever quiet diplomacy his government may be pursuing is an open question.
RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 23-04-2026
Six Nations 5724 kicks off in Valruzia!
Hosts deliver mixed results in first round with Kalistan as early favorites and Bianjie surprises!
June 5724
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With hotels almost fully book in most of the host cities – which include Nowogard, Hel and Brzansk too – the Valruzian authorities are ready to provide the necessary security measures for the millions of tourists and fans that have flooded the nation in recent days.
Men's tournament:
The Valruzian hosts were the team tasked with the first match of the competition, paired against the Lodamese team. With a 31–15 score in favor of the hosts, this was the first stone in the step towards the wanted title.
The Kalistani powerhouse was paired against Bianjie, and the Dovani team had little chance to do anything other than to see how the Seleyan team repeatedly scored once and again until a whooping 55–0. But there still a long way to go!
However, the game that stole all the attention was the nail-bitting match between Mordusia and Luthori, decided at the very last minute until a 20–18 score in favor of the Mordusians.
Women's tournament:
If Kalistan, Valruzia and Mordusia's men sides won their matches, it was exactly the opposite for the women's teams, as Bianjie, Lodamun and Luthori won theirs, with a special mention to the Bianjian team as they defeated the hosts by 3 points (25-22) in the last match of the day.
With that, the official first day of the Six Nations 5724 has come to an end! However, with four more rounds on the horizon, be assured that everything can change and we'll have to wait to see which teams become the winners of this first edition.
RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 24-04-2026
Second round of the Six Nations 5724!
One step closer to know the winners
June 5724
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In the men's tournament in Brzansk, Kalistan, Valruzia and Mordusia have taken their respective matches, with the Kalistani team way ahead the scoreboard after yet another impressive game – this time against Luthori – in which they scored no less than 42 points. The hosts defeated Bianjie in a kind-of-revenge for the women's result two days ago where the Dovanian side defeated the hostesses. Meanwhile, Mordusia attempts to bite the Kalistani leg by winning their game too, against Lodamun, and therefore being tied in number of victories. However, we will not see a Kalistan–Mordusia game until the fourth round, so for now both teams have to keep their score clean if they want to reach for glory! Furthermore, they should not forget that they are also tied in victories with the Valruzian hosts, so any match between them – Valruzia vs Mordusia is coming in the next round – will really be a sight to watch!
In the women's side, the Bianjian team failed to play at the same level as they did against the Valruzians and lost by a single point against the Lodamese national team. The hostesses scored a whooping 42-12 victory against Luthori, therefore blocking them from any victory during this round as they male counterpart lost against Kalistan. And talking about Kalistan, yet another victory for them! Their female side defeated Mordusia 28-15, but they will have to up their game and pray for the demise of the Lodamese team if they want to achieve the top spot!
With the second round coming to an end, these are the current stats:
Men's tournament:
1. Kalistan: 2 0 0 (97 – 10) +87
2. Valruzia: 2 0 0 (64 – 22) +42
3. Mordusia: 2 0 0 (45 – 30) +15
4. Lodamun 0 0 2 (27 – 56) –29
5. Luthori 0 0 2 (28 – 62) –34
6. Bianjie 0 0 2 (7 – 88) –81
Women's tournament:
1. Lodamun: 2 0 0 (38 – 31) +7
2. Valruzia: 1 0 1 (64 – 37) +27
3. Kalistan: 1 0 1 (48 – 42) +6
4. Bianjie: 1 0 1 (44 – 42) +2
5. Luthori: 1 0 1 (39 – 62) –23
6. Mordusia: 0 0 2 (27 – 46) –21
RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 24-04-2026
Is there time left for a reconstruction of the Left?
As elections approach and there is a realignment already happening in Sovereign Valruzia and Forward Valruzia, is there any room left for the KPW and the FLK to rebuild burnt bridges?
April 5721
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The division on the left is not a new concept anywhere in the world, much less in Valruzia. For many years of the post-dictatorship period, the Communist Party of Valruzia, the KPW, was widely regarded as the sole representative of the Valruzian "hard-left", as the socialdemocrats of the — nos fully integrated into Sovereign Valruzia as part of the Socialdemocratic–Agrarian Party — Dignity and Progress (GiP) never really managed to become a relevant actor in Valruzian politics, except for a brief moment where a political contorsionism made their leader Chancellor of Valruzia during the 5640’s.
The anomaly of not having a strong classical socialdemocratic party, paired with the more conservative positions of Sovereign Valruzia under Szymon Nowik’s early moments and the relevant role of former President Karolina Pietrzyk in the shaping of post-dictatorship Valruzia made the KPW the uncontested representative of Valruzian left during those early decades. Its peak of popularity would come under the leadership of former Chancellor Iwan Nowik, son of Szymon Nowik, who would transform the party into a smashing powerhouse who, until last elections, was the sole Valruzian party to reach an absolute majority in the Sejm on their own.
But those times are well past. Now, the party struggles to reach 10%, and seems unable to find a solution to their demise. The movement of Sovereign Valruzia to the left-side of the political spectrum, paired with the emergence of the breakaway People's Front of Kampania in their former stronghold, left them in their bones, unable to properly react in a timely manner to the events unfolding.
But why did the People's Front of Kampania parted ways with the KPW? Among other factors, there were two main reasons: one purely logistical and one more ideological. When Szczepan Kozak founded the FLK, he did so on the grounds of the political reform in Valruzia, that replaced the Voivodeship-based seats proportion into a single national constituency, thus reducing the influence of the regions in Valruzian national politics. By creating a "purely Kampanian party", Kozak made sure that the voice of the Kampanian people could still be heard at the Sejm. But that was not the only reason. At the time, the KPW was already starting to be seen as no longer pursuant of any form of communism, but rather a "hard socialdemocracy", as some critics pointed out, and that had paved the way for the Workers' Vanguard, who saw in Kampania fertile soil to grow. The FLK sought to put an end to what they saw as a "false socialism" in the Workers' Vanguard, which they often defined as having "fascistic tendencies" and of being more a tool of the right-wing than of the left. The FLK, answering only to the people in Kampania, would not suffer the frictions of having to rule a whole country and betraying the will of their voters, as their only and primary focus would be Kampania. And it worked, as they have been ruling the Voivodeship ever since.
But that has costed the KPW more than they want to admit, and in fact, in the 5720 elections there was only a 0.6% vote share difference between both parties, a catastrophic result for the KPW taking into account that the FLK only runs in Kampania, and the KPW does so in the whole country. And for this reason among others, the new leadership of the KPW, who replaced Judyta Kram after repeatedly failed expectations, is looking for a "new approach" towards the FLK.
Kaja Orlikowska, widely known now for her criticism of the recent political events taking shape in Xsampa, wants to rebuild the burnt bridges with the FLK, and according to internal sources, her party is preparing a draft agreement for both parties to run together for the next elections, scheduled to take place in half a year. According to some parts of the document, the idea would be to show "a united antifascist and communist front" to ease the tensions and divisions between them. In Valruzia's current political system, a prospective coalition among the two parties would not have impactful results given that there is a single national constituency, but the leadership of the KPW believes that their gesture is more "emotional" and aims at motivating their prospective voters to encourage more people to support and vote for them instead of leaning towards the abstention due to the inability to choose one of them or the angry towards their fighting.
However, reactions within the FLK have been far from homogeneous. While some within their ranks have reacted possibility to this filtration, some others believe that the ultimate purpose of the KPW is to "reabsorb them" to become once again the sole representative of the left in the country. And they would not let that happen. Now, with the party under a new leadership for the first time since its foundation by Szczepan Kozak, many within the FLK believe that understandings between both parties are more feasible, but things have to be done carefully and step by step to avoid any kind of misunderstanding. In the FLK, they are not blind and they know that a weakness in the KPW could sooner or later reach them, and for a force that once was over 50% of support to drop below the 10% points towards a dangerous road.
Whatever the decision, they must come up with a resolution before the end of September, when the time for the presentation of coalitions or new parties for the 5725 elections meets its deadline. But until then, everything is still possible.
RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 26-04-2026
Third round of the Six Nations 5724!
Halfway to the final show
June 5724
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In the men's tournament in Gryfitów, Kalistan, Valruzia and Luthori have been the respective winners of their games. Keeping on their unbeatable streak, the Kalistani side has scored 60–5 against the Lodamese team, keeping their status as first-placed and running way ahead of second-placed Valruzia, whose last minute win against the Mordusian side has decided who becomes the runner-up for this day. Meanwhile, Luthori has won its first game against last-placed Bianjie by 24-12, with the Dovanian side unable to secure a victory for the third day and placing at the bottom of the table.
In the women's side, however, we have to start with the big surprise of the day, as the Bianjian side performed an extremely impressive comeback against Kalistan, defeating them by 24-22 and placing third for now! In the stadium, you could see fans going crazy after their team has now won 2 games against one, placing technically in a tie with first-placed Lodamun and runner-ups Valruzia. The hosts won their match against Lodamun in a match that sometimes looked more like a battlefield and not a rugby field! Both teams attacked and defended aggresively, and thus a low score of 19-15 decided the winner. The last game of the day, Luthori v. Mordusia, was won by the Luthorian side, securing their second victory in the female tournament and therefore attempting to make a run for the first place too, as all first four teams are now placed with 2 victories and a loss.
With the third round coming to an end and only two more days to go, these are the current stats:
Men's tournament:
1. Kalistan: 3 0 0 (157 – 15) +142
2. Valruzia: 3 0 0 (85 – 41) +44
3. Mordusia: 2 0 1 (64 – 51) +13
4. Luthori 1 0 2 (52 – 74) –22
5. Lodamun 0 0 3 (32 – 116) –84
6. Bianjie 0 0 3 (19 – 112) –93
Women's tournament:
1. Lodamun: 2 0 1 (53 – 50) +3
2. Valruzia: 2 0 1 (83 – 52) +31
3. Bianjie: 2 0 1 (68 – 64) +4
4. Luthori: 2 0 1 (70 – 72) –2
5. Kalistan: 1 0 2 (70 – 66) +4
6. Mordusia: 0 0 3 (37 – 77) –40
RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 27-04-2026
Valruzia marks one hundred years since its revolution
The nation celebrates its "century of freedom" among remembrance and joy
April 5724
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One hundred years ago this month, Chief of the Defence Staff Marcel Szumski ordered Valruzia's military to stand down and stop firing on its own citizens after the year before, the murder of student Robert Obrzut ignited the spirits of the Valruzians, leading to massive protests and unrest throughout the country. The directive, issued on April 14, 5624, effectively ended the Morawski regime and, with it, one of the darkest chapters in the country's history. To mark the centenary, the government has organized a programme of commemorative events across all five voivodeships and spanning several weeks. Chancellor-President Gawel Sandów will preside over the central ceremonies in Nowogard, though the commemorations are explicitly designed to be a national affair by reaching cities, towns and communities that lived through the upheaval first-hand.
For the events of the centenary, several heads of state and government are expected in Nowogard for the central ceremonies on April 22, among them senior representatives of the Bianjie leadership, Empress Carolina of Ananto of Kalistan, and Emperor William XI and Empress Victoria of Luthori accompanied by their Prime Minister Jay Parkford, among others. The government of Valruzia is expected to award Empress Carolina the Valruzian Medal of Civil Merit as representative of the "Kalistani people", in recognition of Kalistan's solidarity back at the time when they announce the intention to take in Valruzian refugees that needed to flee in order to avoid the violence. "While we, of course, praise and recognize those who stayed and fought for their freedom and their country, we also recognize that it takes courage to leave everything you know behind and start a new life far away from your home country in order to protect your family, and Kalistan offered that possibility to the many Valruzians that decided to do so. And we thank them for that, because as we always say "Valruzia never forgets". And we will not". said Chancellor–President Sandów in the morning ceremony.
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Rehearsal of the flight show
Nowogard then will host the most prominent events of the commemorative calendar following Sandów's initial remarks. On April 22, the date on which Szczepan Morawski was arrested by the military a century ago, a solemn ceremony will take place in front of the Sejm, the same building that was devastated by the explosion of June 29, 5623. Chancellor-President Sandów will deliver the central address and will formally sign the decree awarding Marcel Szumski and the Students for Bright Future movement, which had been active against the Morawski regime even before Obrzut's arrest, a posthumous Golden Medal of Valruzia, the state's highest civilian honor, for their role during the revolution. A minute of silence will follow at noon, observed simultaneously across the country, followed by a military parade. The visiting heads of state are expected to attend the ceremony and to hold bilateral meetings with the Chancellor-President in the days surrounding the event.
The National Museum will inaugurate a permanent exhibition dedicated to the revolution, incorporating declassified police and government documents from the Morawski era, video testimonies from survivors and relatives of victims, and personal effects of families repressed by the regime The exhibition opens to the public on April 14 and will remain on display indefinitely.
On the evening of April 22, a torchlit march will depart from the university district — where Obrzut's relatives, including former Chancellor Szymon Nowik first distributed leaflets bearing his face — and proceed to People's Square, concluding with fireworks over the Sejm dome. The government has encouraged citizens from across Valruzia to make the journey to Nowogard for the occasion, though it has also been at pains to stress that the commemoration is not confined to the capital.
In December 5623, as the Morawski government declared martial law and deployed the military in urban centres across Valruzia, the garrison stationed in Brzansk took the extraordinary step of openly refusing to comply. Blocking the city's entrances, the military unit announced it would resist any government attempt to enforce the crackdown — issuing the challenge Przyjdź i weź, "Come and take it", a phrase that rapidly became the rallying cry of the resistance movement nationwide, as has since then become the national motto of the Republic of Valruzia.
Now, a century later, Brzansk will hold the most symbolically charged events outside the capital. On April 24, the city will open the doors of the former military barracks where the defiance was organised, now converted into a civic memorial space. Local authorities have planned a public reading of the original communiqué issued by the garrison, followed by a community gathering in the city's central square.
The voivodeships of Gryfit and Chynberg, though less associated with the confrontations, were not untouched by the era. Gryfit's regional capital, Gryfitów, will host a series of archival exhibitions drawing on local press records from the period, many of which were censored or destroyed by the regime and have only partially survived, and will also put a focus on the role of the national firefighters' association – whose announcement of an indefinite strike in December 5623 was among the clearest signals that the Morawski government had lost the loyalty of civil society – with a commemorative gathering planned at the association's headquarters on April 23.
Speaking at a press conference last week, Chancellor-President Sandów was explicit about the government's intentions. "The revolution of 5623 and 5624 was not a single moment" he said. "It was months of fear, courage, strikes, protests, suffering and ordinary people deciding that enough was enough. The centenary should reflect that. It should last as long as the struggle did". The government has also announced that April 22 will henceforth be a national public holiday, designated Revolution Day, formalizing what has until now been an unofficial day of remembrance observed differently across the country's voivodeships. The measure passed the Sejm last month with broad cross-party support, with only the far-right Valruzian Alliance voting against it.
But the centenary will not only be marked by remembrances. Starting today, numerous parties and ludic activities will be carried across the nation, as the centenary should not only be "a moment of sadness, but of joy and celebration too of what we won and what we must defend" said Culture Minister Eliasz Balicki. "Because they were, we are, and because we are, they will be".
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Inaugural night at one of Nowogard's main squares
RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 27-04-2026
5725 Valruzian elections: Aleksandra Kos elected Chancellor–President as left loses ground for the first time ever
Sovereign Valruzia retains absolute majority as poker of women reflect on the results
January 5725
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It's official: Aleksandra Kos will replace Gawel Sandów at the helm of the Valruzian Republic. The leader of Sovereign Valruzia, who succesfully ran to become the candidate of the Valusian voivodeship – Valruzia's most populated region – has won in the first round with 50.3% of the vote share, defying the odds that placed her well below the threshold for direct election and in a tight run-off with second-placed candidate Urban Cisło, who has ended up winning over 29% of the vote, way below Mrs. Kos. Therefore, Sandów's pupil will become the second Chancellor–President of Valruzia. And she will do so ruling with the party she commands, as Sovereign Valruzia has kept its absolute majority in the Sejm – albeit losing 2 seats – after winning 49.8% of the vote share.
In fact, the most remarkable event of the electoral night is not that Sovereign Valruzia lost its majority of vote share (coming from 50.9% from the 5720 elections to 49.8% tonight) but that, for the first time since Valruzia's transition to democracy, all Valruzian parties positioned on the left of the political spectrum (which include as of now the Communist Party of Valruzia, the People's Front of Kampania and Sovereign Valruzia) have lost both vote share and seats in the national assembly of the nation.
Despite still account for around 2/3 of the total counted votes and the right only increasing their vote share by merely 2 points, many political analysts speculate that what has avoided a bigger catastrophe in the Valruzian left – and especially in the Communist Party of Valruzia – has been the high turnout of 83.6%, 7 points higher than the past elections. Without this last-minute mobilization, attributed mostly to last days of campaign of the KPW after the party failed to reach an agreement with the People's Front of Kampania, some political experts agree that the debacle could have been "much worse".
The numbers do not lie. To have a glimpse of how much importance the turnout has had, we can take a look at Sovereign Valruzia results: from the looks of it, the party has lost both vote share (–1.1%) and seats (2). However, in the 5720 elections the party got around 50 million votes. In this election, Sovereign Valruzia has been chosen by more than 57 million citizens. A 7 million netto increase in number of votes. And that's the same amount of votes that has received the second placed, center-right Forward Valruzia: more than 5 million votes, up to 29 million. Their highest ever number of votes. And still, their vote share is only their fifth highest, as a result of the huge mobilization. And that's why the KPW has been also saved. While their total counting of votes have only improved by around 100,000, it has been enough to keep them afloat. If its supporters would have decided to stay home instead of hearing the last-minute call, we could have probably seen it as the smallest party in the Sejm, perhaps even below the far-right of Valruzian Alliance. And that, for a party that once commanded more than 50% of the vote share, would have definitely been a nail in their political coffin.
For now, Aleksandra Kos can breathe calmly. She has the majority to form a single-party government, a party she's the leader of, unlike her predecessor in the post, and she has five more years to apply her political program. But for the left as a whole, and Sovereign Valruzia wants to be included in that label more and more every time, they better pray tonight's result is only a once-in-a-lifetime situation, and not the general trend. Because if not, it means the Valruzian right is rising.
And that's what they were thinking in the headquarters of Forward Valruzia in Nowogard. Despite their candidate coming second in the Presidential round and their party falling to the same place once again, the high increase in voter numbers tell them that "something is changing" and that citizens "are waking up" according to a senior official. In fact, in her political speech after the results were announced, Forward Valruzia's leader Janina Dubinska said that the party now had "a clear route to follow" and that she has "the map to sail these seas". "We are at the start of something big. Earthquakes usually start with small temblors, but once the big one comes, things change", she said. Meanwhile, KPW's Kaja Orlikowska, a figure that became known for her criticism on the "coup d'etat" in Xsampa and her support for the "Democratic Opposition" of the Dovanian country, acknowledged the bad results, but assured that she would stay in the post because a good leader "does not abandon its partners when things turn ugly".
In fact, there was another highlight of tonight's elections: for the first time ever in modern democratic Valruzia, all five parties that gained – or better said, kept – seats in the Sejm were led by women, a fact that also made international headlines. And for the first time too, the Valruzian Sejm will feature more female deputies than males, with a proportion of 53-47%.
RE: Valruzia - Aethan - 28-04-2026
Chancellor–President Kos unveils plan for legislature
Government composition also announced; reduction of ministers for the first-time ever
February 5725
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In a lengthy press conference held today in the Sejm, newly elected Chancellor–President Aleksandra Kos – whose election by the Valruzian people has been received with enthusiasm abroad – has unveiled her plan for this five-years legislature as well as the names of her cabinet, that will need to be approved this afternoon by the Sejm (although it is widely expected to be approved without any issues since Sovereign Valruzia holds an absolute majority of the Chamber).
The earliest surprise of the morning was the announcement that for the first time since Valruzia's transition to democracy the number of ministries would be reduced as a result of the merge of various ministries. As a result, the now former Ministry of Territorial Administration and Ministry of Migration would be put together under the new Ministry of Territorial Integrity; the new Ministry of Labor, Housing and Social Rights is a result of the merge of the Ministry of Labor, Equality and Social Rights with the Ministry of Housing; the Ministry of Science and Technology replaces the former Ministry of Science and Research and Ministry of Technology and Innovation; and the Ministry of Food Sovereignty will merge with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food into the new Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.
"It is my belief that there were many duplicated roles and functions within certain ministries, and under my government we will seek to eradicate that, to make the ministries more effective and surgical for the benefit of our citizens." said Mrs. Kos during the press briefing. "It is not within my scope to say whether this was worse or better or whether it worked or not for my predecessors, but my way forward during this legislature will be this."
Accompanied by a heavy pile of papers, Mrs. Kos then proceeded to detail all the measures that she intended to carry out under her government, and said she does so under the belief that "there are no excuses not to apply the full extent of their political program" since citizens granted her "their total confidence".
Among the social measures the government plans to approve is the nationwide non-binary gender recognition following the example of the Kampanian regional legislation almost 20 years ago – although it is still not assured to pass only with the votes of Sovereign Valruzia, since it is expected that some of its deputies will vote against. However, the Kos government relies on the People's Front of Kampania, under whose government was the law approved in the Voivodeship, to vote in favor of it at national level. "Citizens have been waiting a long way for this, and it is a reality we cannot turn our back to. Those citizens deserve respect and recognition" said the Chancellor–President. The government will also propose to reduce the term until which a pregnant woman can get an abortion due to economic or social causes from 24 to 16, provided it is not covered by the other categories (in cases of rape, fetal impairment, risk to health and risk to life, Valruzian legislation places no term limit) and the person is over 16. For under-16s, the law will be reduced to 20 weeks. And on request, Valruzian legislation will be made tighter: up to 14 weeks. "Do not make any mistake here" said the Chancellor–President, herself a mother of 3 "We do not intend to do so as conservatives like to label this, but rather because we believe the Valruzian legislative permitted many people to abuse the system. And not only nationals, but also internationals. We were made aware of "black-market style" trips to our nation for people to receive clandestine abortions, as our current legislation is among the most relaxed in the whole Terra. People need to understand that while we place absolutely no blame or shame in abortion, and we will defend it and its protection in our Constitution, it has to be done within reasonable margins. And I'm afraid to say that is currently not the case".
On religious affairs, the Kos government wants to introduce an old plan: put an end to the "Yeudi ghettos" in some Valruzian cities, especially in the Chynberg voivodeship, Valruzia's region with the biggest share of Valruzian Yeudis. "We are one nation, one people. We defend freedom of religion, but our nation is irreligious. It has been for centuries, and it will keep being that way. There is nothing that justifies the existence of "ghetto" neighborhoods in some Valruzian citizens where some residents refuse to integrate with the rest of our population. If they want to do so, they are in the wrong country". Valruzia has the world's largest Yeudi diaspora, but most of them openly identify as Valruzian yeudis are do not share much association with the Homeland.
On housing, Kos wants every new building erected in the nation to feature "Zywobeton" elements – that is, following the rules of the Green Brutalism movement that has been taking place in recent years across the nation. "Our nation is growing, but it has to grow in the right way. And Zywobeton pursues that. It is exactly the kind of architecture that our nation needs, and under my mandate we will make sure that it is implemented all across our nation".
But perhaps one of the most relevant news was the announcement of the creation of Morskina, a brand-new Valruzian state-owned shipbuilding enterprise which will be dedicated to civil and military naval construction, the design of deep-tech systems and the manufacture of structures for the renewable energy sector, such as offshore wind or hydrogen. The company will also design, build and support different types of surface vessels, submarines and systems, which will become the first 100% Valruzian-made. It is expected that the Valruzian government will commission its first submarines and aircraft-carriers 100% Valruzian-made to the company as soon as it is firmly established, and economists believe that the company will enter in no time in the WALEX, Valruzian stock market index. and will rival with Valruzia's largest employer, Valastra, dedicated to the aerospace sector and Valruzia's biggest company by revenue and its crown jewel.
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Announced logo of Morskina
"For many years now, Valruzia has had the potential, has had the capabilites, has had the brains. What it has lacked is the channel to fuel all this in a single place. And now we have it. Valruzian engineers are widely appreciated and searched for, and Valastra is an example of that. Now, with Morskina, Valruzia covers a front it has neglected since decades: whilst the sea is also our home and makes up half of our border, we had to rely for too long on others to help us build or protect it. That will no longer be the case" said Mrs. Kos during the presentation of the company.
Finally, the Chancellor_President also announced a shift in Valruzia's foreign stance on migration and international help. "Our goal is to help people to build and develop their own countries. Our priority should not be to bring to Valruzia thousands of immigrants every year, but to make sure that they are not forced to leave their home because there are no options left, and that they are coming here only because of free choice. Therefore, we will impose stricter migration rules for people wishing to establish themselves permanently in our nation, whilst at the same time we will work to increase our international help to those countries in need, and we will create special forces tasked with the aim to export Valruzian knowledge to those regions to help them build, together, a better place to live".
In the end, before the first session of the Sejm started where her government was to be voted, she announced that her first state visits as new Chancellor–President of Valruzia would be to Kalistan and Luthori, although she said that she wanted to "visit Xsampa" soon, in a reflection of her more internationalist vision of what the Valruzian foreign policy should be.