Davostag

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Large Reforms Pushed by New Premier Manner

14 May 5632 | Kivonia, Davostag

 

Premier Karl Manner announcing the new legislation he has presented to the Riksdag.

 

As if descended from the gods up high, the new premier knows what is necessary for the people of our great nation. He has just know returned from the Riksdag, having presented to the Speaker several government legislations touching on several areas for improvement. With the full support of the rikspresident, Manner intends on nationalizing Kovstrin AB ("Kovmark Industrin AB"), the largest private chemical, electric power and infrastructure company in Davostag and rapidly take over the smaller remnant private actors in the sector to acquire complete state control over the electricity power grids, infrastructure and other related subjects. The purpose of this is to present fixed prices with the eventual goal of making electricity free for all citizens in five years.
 
Other legislations includes the state-ownership of AI and introducing an AI-tax beginning on 1 January next year; introducing a flat rate for public transportation of 1000 Riksdaler* per year; allowing the state's pension fund build housing where the pension savings becomes the primary part of the contract for an apartment, where one pays their residence with their pension payments while they live there; the introduction of municipal school transportation and incorporation of any activities directly after school for a low cost so that parents have time to finish work and cook food until the children get home around 17.30, ready for dinner, homework and bed, thus relieving parents of uneccessary stress and burdens; and for last, the government plans on establishing kolonibyar ("colony-villages"), an old Davostagian project that was devised to encourage urban dwellers, especially young adults, to move out to the countryside to create a more sustainable, self-sufficient communal agrarian lifestyle.
 
The new premier has also, as reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reviewed a new proposition in direction of Davostager foreign policy, the details of which still remains fuzzy. The aim is believed, as reported by some sources, to be the greater security of the Lievenian and Unholy seas through military means and defend the interests of the Davostag Republic. This could most likely be in regards to the full protection of trade that the previous government set out for the Davostag Navy to ensure, but one might look at it in a different view, especially as premier Manner had said in his first speech that a change in direction regarding foreign policy would happen. So one might wonder if the sources could be referencing something else.
 
News report written by Karla Fridasdotter.
 
* (OOC: I use Swedish Crowns, SEK, to measure Davostager riksdaler. 1000 SEK equals at the time of writing about 93,36 US dollars)