Badara

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HAKIM AL-SABAH IS NEW CHANCELLOR
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Majlis, November 17, 5652:  Elections have just been held, and while counting is not complete, the result seems to be rather as expected with seats being fairly evenly split between those associated with the Working Institutional Group (WIG) caucus, the Free Radical Supper Club (FRSC) caucus and those associated with neither.
 
Among the last, the Independents (I) there has been some talk of Defense Minister Hakim al-Afdal, Interior Minister Bandar al-Qasabi or General Intelligence Service Director Ivrahim Duqaq becoming Chancellor, but the Monsoon is certain these individuals intend to stay right where they are.
 
The current Chancellor, Bashir ibn Ortoq, has opted for election as Member Presiding of the Majlis from which position he can oversee codification of constitutional amendments, legislation and judicial reform while Faisal Abu Saq wants to stay on as Managing Director of the Central Bank so WIG was scrambling  to decide if it has anyone for a candidate for Chancellor.
 
Foreign Minister Hakim al-Sabah undertook discussions with former Chancellor Khalifi al-Qassem on what the FRSC  preferences were.  The  former Chancellor said he was very happy as Minister of Religious Affairs and if the Foreign Minister would take on Chancellor, his sister Mariamne al-Qassem was interested in moving from Finance to Foreign Affairs.
 
They agreed that the international objective was focus on cementing ties with Istalia, Kafuristan and Lodamun and expanding trade in Majatra.  FRSC had a Finance replacement who was not like the al-Qassems or most WIG delegates, a member of the oligarchy, but rather a mostly secular academic, one Abdul Jabbar.
 
Thus arrangements were made, votes were undertaken; and the Majlis selected a new government.


Chancellor Hakim al-Sabah