Badara

[Drax]

MANARA ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
MINISTERS HOPE TO RESTORE CHANCELLOR OFFICE AND MAKE CHANGES
 
Defense Command Center, August 17, 5639:  Nine of the eleven Ministers elected by the Majlis met at Defense Command Center to discuss several issues at the behest of Justice Minister Bashir ibn Ortoq.
 
First was political parties. Finance Minister Faisal Abu Saq suggested no effort to allow them be suggested just yet, and all agreed on doing that for now.
 
The next was regional government. The three Muhafaza on the Big Island were functioning normally.  Not so on Nashwa.  Defense Minister Hakim al-Afdal suggested that national police forces restore law and order and believed they could do so.  Asked by Interior Minister Yasser al-Mirza how he would be expected to deal with paramilitaries, Justice Minister Ortoq suggested initially avoiding arrests absent violence or property destruction or other breach of statutes.
 
Ortoq also suggested that there be legislation to allow Muhafazas where they were functioning all governmental powers unless preempted by action of the Republican Government acting through its Majlis.  Further a court system could be legislated under the existing Constitution. The republican courts would deal with national law and the Muhafaza and lesser courts with regional and municipal legislation and ordinances.
 
Foreign Minister Hakim al-Sabah proposed for now the group propose the Majlis with its power as head of state and of government hire someone to perform functions of chancellor rather than change a Constitutional provision believed to have been aimed at corruption. This ploy (hypocritical though it may be), was approved by all.
 
Defense Minister Afdal stated he really needed to have privatization revised to be able to use some of military contractors. Ortoq promised a constitutional amendmebnt would go to the Majlis.  Abu Saq said he thought currency reform and oil organization could be done by legislation he would propose.
 
Pensions and befits Minister Mariamne al-Qassem proposed that since Ahmadism was State religion, that old system of head of church be reinstituted.  Ortoq thought that could be handled by negotiations with Israi and Abadi leadership.
 
Which finally led to question of who the General Intelligence Service should report to absent a president.  Foreign Minister Sabah said that would have to be the Majlis but legislation could make it the Chancellor or the Council of Ministers.  It was agreed to make it the Chancellor.


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