Narikaton and Darnussia

[Mbites]

May 5570

Bernhard Stumpf appointed SaSA Chairman

Appointee Bernhard Stumpf

After ever-increasing pressure to increase the security capabilites of the state and fix the disfunctional leadership of the intelligence agency, President zum Clenonberg has decided to appoint the senior SaSA agent Bernhard Stumpf to the chairmanship of the agency. According to rumors from the security community, Clenonberg has folded under the pressure of the president of the police forces who apparently has been worried about the current state of affairs regarding the protests in all the bigger cities of the Dual Republic. In an interesting twist, for the first time in her incumbency, the president has angered her own party by appointing Stumpf. The DRP has demanded a transparent and official procedure to find the perfect candidate, in response Clenonberg publicly stated that this personell decision was part of a wider strategy to finalize the purge of VVP-influence in the public institutions. Pundits doubt the statements of the president and instead point towards a calculated political move to create positive headlines in the context of the election campaign.