Dolgava

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January 5615

Dolgavan farmers took the streets across the country today, to protest the current Conservative Government in power. The current government under the premiership of Sven Kivi has led to complete inaction on the part of the Government, especially after a tough fall and winter for Dolgava's farmers. Dolgava's farmers first suffered a series of floods, and storms that ruined crops, followed by an early winter, which ruined local wheat and potato crops across the country. Previous Governments established governmental backed insurance to help Dolgava's farmers, however the Kivi Government cut this program as a "wasteful".

The protests have now begun, as Dolgava is enduring a cold, and long winter. With elections taking place at the lastest, in November of this year, the status quo was clearly failing Dolgava's farmers. They took to the streets of several Dolgavan cities, including Aikums, Ebenzing, Noversk, and Trigrad. Many tractors took to the streets, plowing through the snow, and blocking roads and streets. In Aikums, farmers joined together with dissatisfied college students. blue collar workers, working class workers and others to protest the governemnt. Signs in the streets showed the current Prime Minister as asleep at the helm, with posters picking fun at his weirdly shaped nose, and his extreme "small government" stance.

The protests have shaken the nation, with police clashing with protestors in several cities, and some government officials calling the protests a "excuse for hooliganism", however this merely set off more and more people, as now major demonstrations have appeared across the country.

Farmers are not only tired of the current ruling class, but they are tired of the Conservatives in general. A group of farmers in Lirath and Hodari, have created a new Political Party called the Dolgavanas Piena Partija (DPP), (Dolgavan Dairy Party), a party focused on the needs of dairy farmers, and agriculture in general. As of now a leader has not been elected, but they are expected to be somewhat successful regionally, in Lirath and Hodari. The Government and the Dolgavan King, Sigismund III have been quiet, however the monarch could intervene and force an election if he was so needed.

There is no word why the Conservative government has been inactive, but political commentators point to the fact that no real opposition has existed for hundreds of years, and the ruling class of Dolgava has gone complacent and are out of touch with reality. As of now, they will have to revert back to some semblance of governance, because if they do not, they are going to experience a electoral landslide, in which they may collapse.

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