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MAJLIS ELECTS ISRAI VALUES CHANCELLOR, IVRAHIM AL-MARWAN
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Majlis, November17, 5707: The bulk of the newly elected delegates to the Majlis were connected to one of the six operating factions.  After being sworn in, they elected Working Institutional Group’s (WIG) Jamal Qahtani as the Presiding Member of the Majlis.
 
Four factions had put together a Ministerial slate. Working together on the slate were WIG, Metzists of Majatra (MM), Israi Values (IV) and the Dufazi, followers of Moqtada al-Dufaz who dominates the political machinery of Al’Salmania Muhaffazeh.
 
IV’s Ivrahim al-Marwan was elected Chancellor, MM’s Leader, Narouz Soqman, was elected Interior Minister, WIG’s Nazir al-Sayed remains at Finance, and Moqtada al-Dufaz was elected Religious Affairs Minister.
 
Monsoon sources say in the negotiations before the election there was considerable jockeying for Ministries between MM and WIG which likely has led to some resentment and future friction. The election of the Religious Affairs Minister was the most problematic. Assurance of oversight from the Governing Board of the General Intelligence Service (GIS) that he would neither launch another religious thought police or institute religious laws otherwise criminal in nature was necessary before he could be nominated.
 
The other principal action on opening day was amending the Constitution to allow political parties to once again fully operate.
 
The Monsoon asked outgoing Chancellor Abdul Jabbar if the change to parties would matter, and he responded:
 

Some but not much.  Two other factors will matter  much more to our faction, the Free Radical Supper Club. First, retirement of Khalifi and Mariamne al-Qassem, our founding leaders who were a bridge between the oligarchy of which they were a part and the delegates representing the citizens who had thrown out the old government because of its corruption.
 
And second, most delegates are now associated with one interest or another.  Our main function in the past was helping employ the powerful while being a check on abuses.  Now I see us changing to a technocratic and centrist party.  Initially, outgoing Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz will lead us. 

 
Chancellor Ivrahim al-Marwan