Kanjor

[Drax]

CLAIRON PICARD
 
FUTURE OF GOVERNING COALITION
 
Governor General’s Palace: July 27, 5633: Parti Social - Democrate (PSD) leadership met at its headquarters in Cap – Oriental to discuss its legislative agenda running into a roadblock from its governing coalition partners.
 
PSD favors nationalizing defense contractors, free public transportation for the poor, free public housing for the unemployed, pulling out of Order of Crowns Treaty, and teaching atheism in public schools. With their supposed partners blocking all of that, their constituency was calling for dissolution of the coalition.
 
PSD’s Premier Bruno LeFebvre asked to discuss the future of the governing coalition with Governor General Barrineau, and she suggested before making demands or resigning, a meeting of the Council of Ministers over which she would preside could consider compromise.  LeFebvre agreed.
 
At the Council of Ministers Meeting today, Federation Canrille (FC)’s Finance Minister Roxanne Marvaux offered to withdraw FC from the Coalition if that would facilitate compromise as did Union Hosienne -Democrate (UHD)’s Foreign Minister Marcel Malateste. Neither however was willing to support minority governance by PSD.
 
The Governor General suggested compromise be sought on each of the five issues and all agreed to try.
 
On the Order of Crowns, Royaume Uni de Kanjor would not withdraw but any actual action beyond voting would require approval of the Chamber of Deputies.
 
On teaching atheism, it was agreed that public school science courses could include evolution as the generally accepted explanation of biological diversity, the big bang theory could be introduced in physics, mathematics and astronomy classes as a theory of the origins of the universe with the caveat that the mathematics may not be holding up on some of its implications and other theories abounded including a bang per galaxy and parallel universes were like loaves of bread, a theory no one present understood but all had often heard from television shows.
 
Further creationism was so poorly presented by its advocates and existing texts that it would not be taught in publics schools, but religious beliefs could be explained in history and anthropology courses as could atheism in those and political science courses where appropriate. Marvaux noted this was in fact being done in the Eliasit’s Institute for Higher Studies.
 
On nationalizing defense industries, all Deputies may vote as they wished, while FC and UHD will join PSD in voting for free public transportation for very low income citizens so certified by the Ministry of Pensions and Benefits.
 
On free public housing for the unemployed, it was agreed that unemployment benefits would be made sufficient for sustenance to include  lodging.
 
All parties agreed to these compromise proposals  and that the governing coalition would stay in place til the next election.


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