Narikaton and Darnussia

[Mbites]

April 5602

Au Revoir! Goodbye Crown!

VVP Leader Graf Gerald Buchu

After a final revisit of the constitutional proposals with the Chancellor, the smaller parties have finally agreed to the revised bill. The compromise involved an easing the requirements for acquiring public funding for political parties. Now this leads us to the reintroduction of the familiar position of President and the switch to a first-past-the-post system of elections. This comes as no surprise as the two big parties want to avoid situations like that of late Vanessa zum Clenonberg who managed to win the presidency but no majority. This also is supposed to increase accountability of each candidate as they have to win a direct-mandate from the people. While critics argue that this makes some votes 'worthless' the two traditional parties of the old-DR have won out this battle of the ideas. The Marissen government has been tasked by the Senate to draw up constiuency maps before calling for another election with the new system. This whole process has seen the VVP benefit a lot from the experience of their new prominent leader Graf Gerald Buchu who is a constitutional jurist and was a part of the Lackmann revisions on the previous constitutions too.