Kundrati/Etxea Government Publications

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Government Defense Paper "On The Safety and Continuity of Government."
This paper was written anonymously within the Defense Office.

THIS PUBLICATION IS DECLARED CLASSIFIED AND SHALL NOT BE MADE AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE OF THE KUNDRATI GOVERNMENT.

(OOC: This paper may only be used for roleplay by the Kundrati Union and will not be immediately noticed by anyone else without my permission. I reserve the right to release the document to others when necessary.)

This paper was written in January 5625.

Regarding the possible threat from the Kundrati Legion on the mainland, there is always the possibility that the government may be decapitated or that the Legion may induce enough chaos to bring down the government of the Kundrati Union. In such times, where the people lead a liberal democracy, such people may not be immediately capable of the affairs of the Union, and such necessary attempts to defend the Union from enemies foreign and domestic must be taken.

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This paper shall serve as the force of law regarding these matters.

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By command of this paper, the following chain of command shall be introduced if the President of the Kundrati Union is compromised through the judgment of the Legebitzarra or in the event of the President being compromised through assassination or untimely death or through an attempted assassination attempt that compromises the President's ability to govern subject to the opinion of the Cabinet.

• The Vice President
  
• The Speaker of the Legebiltzarra
  
• The Minister of Foreign Affairs
  
• The Minister of Internal Affairs
  
• The Minister of National Defence
  
• The Minister of Justice
  
• The Minister of Finance and the Treasury
  
• The Minister of Health and Human Services
  
• The Minister of National Development and Infrastructure
  
• The Minister of Education
  
• The Minister of Trade, Labour and Commerce
  
• The Minister of Energy
  
• The Minister of Transportation.
  

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The Cabinet shall determine if the President is compromised in their ability to govern either by the President informing them of their inability to do so, in which case the judgment of the Cabinet shall automatically agree, or via a majority vote of a Cabinet session, where the President is prohibited from attending, confirmed with a majority vote of the Legebiltzarra.
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In the event the Cabinet is unable to determine the capabilities of the President within two weeks of the Legebitzarra asking for the Cabinet to determine such, or if the Cabinet refuses to do so, it shall be the judgment of the Legebitzarra that shall decide the judgment of the Cabinet and whether the President is fit for office.
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If the Legebitzarra cannot determine the Cabinet's judgment, then it shall be up to the Etxean Garrison Command and the commander of said garrison to assess it.
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During the period in which the President's judgment is in question, or if the Cabinet or the Legebitzarra or EGC declare the President unfit for office, the Vice President shall take the affairs and powers of the President until deemed fit by the Legebitzarra that the President can regain their fitness to serve the office, or until the next General election, whichever comes first.
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Regarding the possible loss of the Government via a so-called decapitation strike, the Etxean Garrison Command shall assume the duties of Government until a civilian government can establish control of the situation.
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This paper shall command that bunkers shall be built in Jildrati City and throughout the island to house the Etxean Garrison Command upper chain of command, the President and some of their staff, the Minister of National Defense and their staff, the rest of the cabinet, and enough members of the Legebitzarra to form a quorum. These bunkers shall be spread throughout the island such that should one bunker fall to the enemy or be rendered unusuable, the other bunkers shall take up the operations of the downed bunker for as long as possible. These bunkers shall be constructed with enough weight and defense to prevent a constant missile attack or an attack via chemical, biological, or nuclear weaponry. They shall be built with reinforced communications equipment to avoid quickly losing communications.
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The bunker that shall house the President, the Minister of National Defense, the members of the Legebitzarra, the EGC, their staffs, and the rest of the cabinet shall also have enough room to house said staff, and shall be constructed in ways that shall allow these bunkers to run without resupply from the rest of the world for at least 60 days and preferably much longer than that date.
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These bunkers shall be run by request of the President, the Etxean Garrison Command, or in the event of invasion, a mass casualty event that attacks and/or forcibly removes members of the Cabinet or the Legebitzarra, or another mass casualty event that would warrant the use of these bunkers.
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Should the Legebitzarra be destroyed and its members assassinated to produce a lack of a quorum for constitutional amendments, then the Etxean Garrison Command shall take up the legislature's powers for bills requiring enough members to amend the Constitution. Should the Legebitzarra be destroyed and its members assassinated to produce a lack of a quorum for passing bills, the Etxean Garrison Command shall take up complete legislative duties. In either event, the EGC shall take over such responsibilities until either elections are called by the President or after 18 months, whichever comes first, or until the situation on the ground is safe to perform elections in general.