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National Congress grants confidence to new government: Annalisa Saragat for her third term

Although negotiations took longer than expected, the Government, which is strongly left-leaning, is ready to work both nationally and internationally

October 5640

ROMULA - The National Congress has officially granted confidence to the new executive led by President Annalisa Saragat, who was reconfirmed as leader of the country for a third term. The new government is born from a coalition between the Democratic Socialist Party, the Party of New Communists and the Greens' Movement, a majority strongly left-leaning and which promises to act accordingly on social, economic and international issues.

Although in the aftermath of the general elections it was expected that the Emperor would quickly grant a new mandate to Saragat, negotiations for the formation of the government dragged on throughout August and September: the main cause was the tenacious position of the New Communists, who made their entry into the coalition conditional on specific programmatic commitments.

Among the central demands of the communists, the state management of natural resources through public companies and the allocation of revenues to the Istalian Sovereign Fund to finance socioeconomic support policies for the population. They also demanded a new approach to international trade negotiations, so that agreements respect high standards of protection for workers and consumers, without penalizing national companies. In this perspective, the use of bilateral protectionist mechanisms based on reciprocity with partners is not excluded.

The most delicate issue, however, concerned the question of the Majatrana minority, and specifically the "traditionalist" Majatran minority, as defined for some time now by analysts, scholars and also by the political world. The New Communists, who have always been sensitive to the issue and in contrast to the rest of the national political landscape, have defined the need to address the problem of systemic discrimination suffered by this part of the population as "no longer postponable", particularly in the north of the peninsula, where there are frequent episodes of racism, social exclusion and institutional marginalization, including serious shortcomings by the Armed Forces who have never removed the rules and limitations introduced at the time of the Patriotic War against the Majatran population. The communists have asked for formal guarantees that the government will take concrete action to improve the status of this part of the Istalian population and to avoid new forms of radicalization due to such alienation.

It is precisely on this point that the greatest internal resistance has been recorded within the PSD, where many members have expressed fears for possible political repercussions, given the persistent sensitivity of public opinion and national memory with respect to the Patriotic War and the episodes of extremism and betrayal by many elements of the Majatran minority that characterized it. The greatest resistance, as expected, came from the PSD congress members in the ranks of the seats reserved for the Armed Forces, the PSD members in parliament most hostile to the Communists.

In the end, also thanks to the active mediation of the Emperor, a compromise was reached and Saragat was officially given the task of forming the new government which, now that it has also received parliamentary confidence, can begin to work.

In the meantime, the Emperor is preparing to embark on an important Dovanian tour, which will take him to visit strategic countries such as Xampa, Utaristan, South Dovani and Kimlien, accompanied of course by Minister Secretary of State Saragat, whose second government paved the way for the organization of this diplomatic tour, and by the new Minister of Economy, Trade and National Industry Carola Martini, a leading figure of the New Communists. The goal is to strengthen economic and political relations, especially with South Dovani, Xampa and Kimlien, the two latter countries with which the current government shares many ideological affinities and that are today among the most dynamic in Dovani.

However, the government’s decision to intensify relations with nations governed by socialist republics, a choice that follows by a few years the trade agreements with Vanuku, also characterized by an essentially socialist system, is raising many doubts within the country and, as was widely expected, in particular among the Armed Forces. Moreover, as with the issue of the Majatran minority, the memory of the suffering and national disaster caused by the regime of the Socialist Republic of Istalia remains deeply imprinted in the collective conscience. There are many, especially among the ranks of nationalists and patriots, who believe that making agreements with such regimes represents an affront to the memory of those who fell fighting the communist regime, as well as to their families and descendants, for whom this political choice sounds like an act of outrageous ingratitude.

At the same time, according to government sources, contacts had already been initiated before the elections with Valruzia, a nation in strong economic recovery and with growing influence in the north of Seleya, especially after the spreading of the North Seleyan revolutions. In a context that sees what many have perceived as a Kalistan hegemony being called into question, Istalia aims to become an important partner in the new Seleyan dynamics based on this new surgence of democracy and cooperation.

On the natural resources front, instead, important news are expected: The SNPE (National Prospecting and Extraction Company) is ready to present to the Government a first preliminary report on the years of exploration conducted under the National Plan for the Enhancement of Strategic Suitable Areas. The Ministry of Strategic Resources and Sustainable Energy, entrusted to Gianluca Gori, former Minister of Economy, is ready to present results that, according to rumors, would be extraordinarily promising. According to some rumors, among other things, there is talk of the discovery of what could be the largest aluminum deposit in all of Majatra.

The new course has begun: now all attention is on the government's first moves and on the ability of Minister Secretary Saragat to manage a politically heterogeneous majority, but still united on fundamental issues by a common vision.