Kalistani Major History

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Socialists Return to Kaliburg
Republican Government called to Session in the first time in 30 years
March 18, 3969
Kaliburg, Ananto District


Socialist Party Leader Borris Donner, incoming Premier of the Republic

The long standing Hiatus is over.  While the Socialists have nominally ruled Kalistan unopposed for the last thirty years, they have done so from the Districts.  There has not been a contested Republican election called for a generation.  Only the most essential parts of the Republican Government have continued to operate, while most national programs have devolved to the Districts.  Meanwhile, Kalistan has conducted its affairs locally, as the five individual districts continued party operations and governed themselves more or less as a confederation.  But given the recent rising tension on Selaya and elsewhere in the world, Socialist Party Leaders have decided that it was time to reconvene the Republican Government.  Party leader Borris Donner addressed the reconvened National Assembly with the following words:

"We have enjoyed unparalleled prosperity and peace over the last generation.  We have been able to end duplicate government agencies and have operated on the Republican level with a skeleton crew.  Our culture and people have thrived during this period under District control, and our economy has enjoyed the longest period of uninterrupted prosperity in the last few centuries.  However, new global threats require a more coordinated effort on the part of the entire Republic.  To this end, we reconvene the National Assembly of the Imperial Republic of Kalistan.  We have called for a new Government and have called for new Presidential elections.  In addition, the Socialist Party of Kalistan has recalled the Kalistani Auxiliary Navy, which has not called Kaliburg its home port in more than three decades.  The Kalistani Auxiliary Navy will be refit and aggrandized with new technology which will allow it to continue to serve the needs of the Republic and its allies without directly involving Kalistani Armed forces."

Donner declared that elections for a new President would occur in three months.  Additionally, Donner announced the Government's acceptance of an informal invitation to visit the state of Aldegar.  The new Foreign Minister, Elias Hendricks, will travel there within 5 months, and hopes to conclude a long term friendship agreement, which will return Kalistan to the global stage.